People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.
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@aworkinglibrary hey fellow resistor!! I refused to drive car for the environment for 45 years now! Ever since I was 15.
I don’t use AI, crypto, NFTs, and have vocally spoken out against them all for some time online, and among colleagues, friends, doctors, whoever might be using it. It’s not hard. Heck, I’ve not had a single entertainment subscription since the sag-aftra & writers strike in 2023. And even then I hardly used them & rotated my subscriptions.
I too am practiced!
@aworkinglibrary @vektorgarten I use my own exclusive »LLM«. It's called »brain« and resides in my head. It is being trained by looking, hearing, speaking, smelling, moving, reading … 😮
@aworkinglibrary Not driving a car, not drinking alcohol, not working in a nation that seems to only drive, drink and work.
Not using AI is definitely easy.
@aworkinglibrary I have a collection of records, cds and mp3 files.
@aworkinglibrary "how to do nothing" book by Kenny odell is all about refusal
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It really helps to have others with similar aims so ... we should be collaborating just like bike/ped/micromobility/wheelchair/mass transit folks do.
@aworkinglibrary nice work. access to walkable areas and public transit is a class good in North America, next question
@aworkinglibrary Yeah. I remember when they tried telling me that same crap about NFTs and the blockchain.
@aworkinglibrary @stux well, I can’t afford a car.
@aworkinglibrary I drove a buggy once, in 1997. So I would qualify even if a buggy would be classified as a car.
Regarding LLMs, I would potentially like to use the actual language models, for you know, language stuff. But I’ve only seen chatbot uses of LLMs, and that is wildly uninteresting to me.
@aworkinglibrary 😆💯 I'm the same. "I've never owned a car or a smartphone. You think I can't refuse to use LLMs?"
(And I'm a software guy! 🥸)
@aworkinglibrary @Gargron Same. I haven't downloaded an AI app and I have no intention to.
@aworkinglibrary You only really have to refuse them for the next couple of years anyway, no-one's going to expect you to use them once the bubble bursts
@aworkinglibrary I would sooner die. Fuck these assholes.
@aworkinglibrary Yeah, it'll take us decades to figure out "type what you want, groan at the lousy result, do the work yourself, and somehow the billionaire gets credit..."
Before anyone is allowed to use AI they are expected to be at least 16 years of age and have taken an AI safety course, or 18 years of age without one, and have passed a competency exam to show they can do so safely.
You literally can't stop "them" from putting free cars in your garage that keep jumping in front of you when you try to leave on your own two feet, nor handing keys to your toddlers.
I'm not sure these two things can be compared like this.
@aworkinglibrary Yup same. Never even bothered to start learning.
@aworkinglibrary Haven't driven a car since 2015 (and not much before, but yet I bow to you). Haven't taken a plane or ordered from Amazon since 2019. Can't remember the last time I had red meat. Have never prompted an AIgen tool. Funny all the things you can actually refuse.
As a vegan who doesn't own a car, I totally relate.
@nikunashi @aworkinglibrary Non-driver and lifelong teetotaler, checking in. 
And why is it being presented that way?
The question should be when does AI get regulated?
@aworkinglibrary AI is the FUTURE of the World. Wheter you like it ;; or not. 🤩
@aworkinglibrary I have refused to use Windows and Apple for personal computing, since Windows 3.1 was released. I'm sure I can stay LLM free.
#MicrosoftSucks
#NoLLMs
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I'm still waiting for that day, and I'll wait for it till the last datacenter crumbles
I'm really sorry but this is such total bullshit
sure, a small number of people can not use a car
but for most people this is just not reality
@aworkinglibrary people are vegan in a world of carnivores. It's amazing what you can refuse if you decide to!
@aworkinglibrary I am going to write checks and use postage stamps until they make those methods of exchange illegal. Refusing AI in Vermont is just called being normal.
@aworkinglibrary I know people who wouldn't know how to survive without ordering basically everything off of Amazon all the time. 🫠 I haven't used Amazon in well over a year.
It's actually pretty straightforward not to use things, once you decide not to use them.
@jaredwhite @aworkinglibrary Over half the companies I do online business with now use Amazon for order fulfillment and many of those also have their storefront on Amazon.
It gets less straightforward every day.
@MartyFouts @aworkinglibrary Yeah that sucks. If that's literally the only source of obtaining a particular product, gotta do it I guess. But some people will just buy toilet paper and a USB charger and…everything. 🤷🏻♂️
@jaredwhite I get it with business orders, but for my personal things, if Amazon is the only option, I simply don't buy it. Full stop. Of course, i also don't live in the US, so it's probably a lot easier for me.
@jaredwhite @aworkinglibrary I deleted Facebook in 2019. Seven years later and I haven’t missed it once.
@aworkinglibrary mandy the way i just choked on my tea
