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Anil Dash
@anildash.com

The dialogue around LLMs is kind of broken both in terms of critique and advocacy. For critique, we need to focus on how we attack fascist tech power consistently — LLMs are only one part of that; merely saying "AI bad" has simply ended up with a lot of people using AI quietly while feeling shame...

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

People can’t just say this for literally years now and have the products it creates only positively affect spreadsheet people. Most people have profoundly negative experiences with this product because its utility remains pretty niche but targeted to the capital class.

Anil Dash
@anildash.com

except it doesn't stop the resultant harm from happening. Like, how does you having an instagram account that you feel guilty about, but that Zuckerberg still profits from, help anybody? It doesn't, it's just useless in every way.

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Bumblebea
@ghastlysundae.bsky.social

What it'll do is stop them from talking about or recommending it. Nobody who's shamed by having instagram will suggest others to use it. If you're ashamed to use LLMs then you'll stop recommending them. It'll dead end with you.