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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.

Trying to ban AI at this point is as absurd as trying to ban computers. It is not only a bad idea, it is essentially _impossible_. Advocating for things like taxing energy usage in data centers makes more sense.

Let's figure out a way which stops these companies exploiting Africans. The whole charade would end if they needed to pay data labelers and content moderators a fair wage.

I'm sure there are examples of when outcry has stemmed exploitation of Africans by the developed world, but I'm having trouble recalling when the last time was (perhaps boycotting Coke and Shell during apartheid?). But are data labelers worse off than kids at cobalt mines in DRC, for our batteries?

whataboutism has nothing to do with the problem at hand