Discussion

@researchfairy I agree and Im grateful that there are tiny pockets like the fediverse where that psychosis isn't as dominant. What I'd like to see is turning our frustration and disbelief into a movement. I wonder what it would take to begin making the shift.

I’ve been working in tech for a decade. Tech companies are now mandating the use of AI. (It’s better to be allowed to work with AI than to be replaced by it mentality.) Can you imagine how it feels nowadays to work in this environment for someone who has some sort of a moral compass and is raising a child? 🥲 (as you said) it’s not just a personal opt out question unfortunately.

@researchfairy What I struggle with is the lack of respect for their own work, their own thinking, their individuality, their agency, exhibited by millions.

@researchfairy AI is not a major driver of climate change.

All IT is responsible for about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. AI is responsible for about 0.1% of greenhouse gas emissions.

You can know the actual major drivers of climate change. They are published annually by most countries, states, cities and companies. They are things like gas cars, cement manufacturing, rice cultivation, cattle.

I'm not arguing for AI; I'm arguing against not understanding climate change.

@researchfairy @tante

The billionaires promoting AI are some of the worst people on the planet.

Wannabe despots just like Putin, Koch Network, & #PrinceBonesaw. The greed.

All assuring us of their benign intent while frying the planet, eroding democracy & law, evading taxation, & creating huge mass layoff schemes

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/billionaires-ai-complacency-resistance

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-new-ai-billionaires-list/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/jeff-bezos-taxes-ai-corporations-trump.html

https://www.benzinga.com/markets/tech/26/05/52681853/bernie-sanders-ai-moving-too-fast-billionaires-congress

https://www.gadgetreview.com/silicon-valleys-soothing-lies-about-your-ai-future

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/ai-boom-young-billionaires/685360/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html

I would not look at this as 0-1 situation. If someone opposes a thing, one can not use it and loudly say about the reasons. It does not mean that everything around will change, but we need living examples that life without harmful things is possible. This can be inspiring to others. If people would have to stop using AI right now, the ban would have to come from autocrat - which is fine, but people would not understand why this change is needed.

@researchfairy Yeah, I feel that. It's like the App Store review process; I can follow all the rules, but I'm still subject to the downstream effects of other developers spamming, scamming, or just shipping garbage. It lowers the bar for everyone.

@researchfairy @tante
I resemble this remark. At least one student per semester submitting something without even hiding that it's LLM Bullshit. Not sure howmajy are using it and hiding it well instead oflearning to walk sk they can later run (I'm teaching writing skills at ug and pg. levels)

@researchfairy "is a major driver of climate change"? Currently or (potentially) in the future?

@researchfairy I’m tired of reading manuscripts full of general strategies and frameworks and repeating the same discussion ten times. If it smells like LLM, it is LLM.

That said, I’m tired of reading English without articles as well, so pick your poison. ☠️

@researchfairy Yes we have to actively fight it ✊🏻

@researchfairy On #DuckDuckGo you can block up to 5 sites from appearing in your search results. I want to block hundreds, if not thousand, that are pure AI slop and polluting the search.

@researchfairy I feel this too. Like the whole world is sucked into a collective Emperor's New Clothes psychosis and I'm yelling "You're all naked. Can't you feel the cold!" But now the shops only sell the new non-clothes too!

@researchfairy right, I mean I'm not actively using it myself, not LLMs, not 'summarising' and generating shit
But it still affects us