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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...

People who use it should feel shame. I include myself in that. It's a feeling one should embrace so that it is only used when strictly beneficial and to not trust the results.

If you don't have a clear logical explanation you can give for why it was helpful for a given task that overcomes the shame, then you should not use it for that.

More to the point, the shame about the use of the big tech platforms isn't _useful_. Everybody has an instagram account and feels bad about it while Zuck profits off of them. What the fuck good does that do anybody? All those Substack writers are ashamed but still on there. It means nothing.

no? i deleted my meta accounts ages ago bc i didn't want to support that company anymore—just bc you dont want to inconvenience yourself and stand by your morals doesnt mean everyone is like that

I have argued many times that people have to stop making the “convenient” choices; it’s good that you’re doing so. The vast majority of folks arguing for wanting to just feel smug about others feeling ashamed are not doing the same. And (as you know) it’s not just an individual action thing…

What I'm hearing is that you just want to not think about the negative impacts of what you're doing and not be judged for it.

Then you’re a stupid person who can’t read.