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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.

Benjamin Johns

@baj.bsky.social

8 Sept 2025

Some BlueSky folks think they killed NFTs by making them cringe and pointing out energy waste when in fact NFTs mostly collapsed because "make pictures people don't want artificially scarce" was a weak concept. But "Make the exact picture people DO want basically free" is a very different animal.

Phendan

@phen.dev

Remain skeptical a) that it is a picture that people want beyond trying out the novelty of it, what with it usually being spatially incoherent and at best still looking unoriginal, and b) how long it'll stay "basically free"

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Phendan

@phen.dev

8 Sept 2025

I actually agree you're not gonna scold most people out of using AI, but I do think in many ways the extreme hype is almost as silly as NFTs were, in that neither is organic