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Stanwixbuster
@stanwixbuster.co.uk

i feel a point we're missing in all these people going "oh ai is terrible and bad and you shouldn't use it but /i/ still wanna use it and will" is that this is a white viewpoint

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Stanwixbuster
@stanwixbuster.co.uk

"i know all the theory of why this is bad but this will never actually affect me so i'm doing it anyway and crying about how torn up i am". go to the philippines and say that straight-faced to the person forced to live 4 feet from the datacentre that churned out all your code that doesn't work

æon
@aeon.bsky.social

ah but, you know, due to [gestures vaguely] the structural forces, and so on, expecting individuals to avoid doing "bad" things is, if you'll excuse me, petite-bourgeois, so it's actually okay, for me, to use the fascist death machine, in fact it's quite leftist if you think about it,

Space Biscuits
@spacebiscuits.bsky.social

this is verbatim like the excuse against veganism and/or climate change for the last several decades. people jump hoops to justify bad externalities if it provides them with utility