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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

I don’t think there’s a single serious critic who says AI’s not useful? The concerns I see are about content rights, worker impacts, environmental effects, epistemological threats, or media manipulation. But that’s all predicated on the idea that it *does* work, often too well for people to manage…

Kevin Roose@kevinroose.com

The NYT Magazine asked me and @caseynewton.bsky.social to open their AI issue by talking about how we use AI, why it's not going away, and how you can't be a serious critic if you're in denial about how useful it is. Bluesky's gonna love this one! www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

Orion
@orion5a.bsky.social

I think the criticisms are more predicated on the fact that a lot of people are using it and/or promoting its use, whether it’s useful for the purposes they're using or promoting it for or not.

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

Yeah, I think OpenAI in particular encourages toxic uses of its platform like that. This is part of what I want to pull apart, those spurious, even dangerous, assertions from vendors of what’s possible (or responsible) to do, vs what we could teach current users about to minimize harm and risk.

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