No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture."

[pip@infosec.exchange]

@subterfugue @xgranade No, I meant to respond to you. AI is causing those harms, so rejecting and fiercely opposing the use of AI is harm reduction. Get it?

[Guest]

@pip @xgranade it isn’t. It has no measurable effect on economic behavior which is completely disconnected from consumers.

Blocking their data centers or getting congress to regulate them. Forcing auditors to expose the fraud that finances it… etc… those impact this.

Going after the wealthy driving yhis could too.

Not using claude or chatgpt has no effect whatsoever Z

[pip@infosec.exchange]

@subterfugue @xgranade

No. That's provably false. Investors rely on hype to make money. We, the public, can reject their advances and loudly proclaim that we have no confidence in their investments.

[Guest]

@pip @xgranade the clinton era called and wants its politics back.

[mason@partychickens.net]

@xgranade I've fallen off reading Doctorow. Is he boosting the hallucination engines lately? That would be surprising but I just haven't listened to him recently.

[fgbjr@indieweb.social]

@xgranade I have to wonder whether Cory Doctorow has taught a class lately (as opposed to speaking engagements), and waded through a pile of middling written assignments submitted by students incapable of answering simple questions on the subject matter. There's a reason competent instructors aren't fans of this technological, er, advancement.

[sickosocial@mastodon.social]

@xgranade What is an LLM?

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@ada @xgranade
THIS.

[violetmadder@kolektiva.social]

@Mimesatwork @xgranade

I mean, if "purity" means, I have an actual conscience and don't feel like participating in industrial levels of exploitation and bullshit, then, sure, call me a purist all day.

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@xgranade I still keep hoping the Doctorow quote was just him doing a shit job of explaining his stance and he'll elaborate or that it's not true or is a misquote or something, because Doctorow was one of the few people left I agreed with on literally everything involved in tech and almost seems to be fundamentally counter to statements I recall him saying mere months prior.

I don't speak about this part of my opposition to its usage because I don't know what to actually do about this happening to people. It feels like I'm watching a bubonic scale parasite spread to everyone who even looks at a computer fondly for half a second and feeds on specifically the parts of their brain in charge of critical thinking and any and all technical skill that isn't just vibe coding or asking the LLM why it isn't working.