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.
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@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. 🤷🏻♂️
@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
