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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

It doesn’t accomplish anything, just as you feeling ashamed about having an Instagram account while Zuckerberg profits from it doesn’t accomplish anything. It’s a way of making some people feel morally superior about a thing while not actually causing any accountability or change to the real harms.

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Crucible Of Words
@crucibleofwords.bsky.social

Shame stops people recommending and adopting it, so yeah, it does help. Just as we are seeing creative projects that use AI being significantly less popular with people actively avoiding them. Are you not personally ashamed of stealing from artists?