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[–] NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I refuse ever touching an AI-driven app or feature, having seen too much slop.

I'd rather call myself a rejectionist than something called fancy.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm choosing to abstain because it's shit. The ethical things are just a bonus. It produces inaccurate information and bland soulless images.

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[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And here i am not using it because I'm old and cranky.

[–] joe_archer@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just don't use it because it's shit and doesn't do anything I need any better than I can do myself in the same time.

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[–] BearGun@ttrpg.network 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (2 children)

I prefer Neo-Luddite. There's a few aspects of modern tech I eschew - AI/LLM bring one of them.

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[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago

I can only imagine someone came up with AI vegan after they decided to eat steak that evening while thinking they're the ones who are pressed by vegans...

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

Count me in

[–] glibg@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Come on Guardian... why frame it like that? Folks using AI should be called out as strange.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 24 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Nothing wrong with being a Luddite

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 4 points 1 day ago

When the technology really gets beyond human comprehension and people are just guessing and throwing shit at the wall (or billions and billions of dollars), I think it's a sensible position to be a luddite.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

It was always about worker's rights anyways:

Malcolm L. Thomas argued in his 1970 history The Luddites that machine-breaking was one of the very few tactics that workers could use to increase pressure on employers, undermine lower-paid competing workers, and create solidarity among workers. "These attacks on machines did not imply any necessary hostility to machinery as such; machinery was just a conveniently exposed target against which an attack could be made."[10] Historian Eric Hobsbawm has called their machine wrecking "collective bargaining by riot", which had been a tactic used in Britain since the Restoration because manufactories were scattered throughout the country, and that made it impractical to hold large-scale strikes.[13][14] An agricultural variant of Luddism occurred during the widespread Swing Riots of 1830 in southern and eastern England, centring on breaking threshing machines.[15]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It was about making sure that as mechanization resulted in a lower need for labor, that workers compensation remained steady, and they worked less hours.

People hating luddites is just the result of centuries old propaganda from the wealthy

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