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this is the really ineffective head-in-the-sand reaction a lot of folks on Bluesky tend to have if you talk about any harm reduction-based approach to the reality that millions of people are using AI tools today. The current approach to critiquing AI is obviously not working, but they don't care.

Bluesky itself *exists* because people broadly understood that social media then, as with AI now, was having a wide variety of negative effects on society. So teaching people about less damaging approaches had a lot of value and has been effective in giving millions of people better alternatives.

By contrast, scolding people with moralizing about their choices, especially when *all of us are using tech from companies that have already carried out harms as serious as genocide* is ineffective, and pushes them to the welcoming arms of fascist tech companies who will be nice to them instead.

Scolding people for their shitty choices is generally an effective strategy, even if you obstinately disagree your choices are shitty.

Have you ever considered whether there may be chemical differences between using ChatGPT and heroin?

There absolutely are. Let's pick a direct analogy: Instagram is run by the company that enabled the Rohingya genocide. Please go yell at your family members who use Instagram, and report back.

Done. None of them do. Now what, coach?