To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
3 hours ago
- #technology-critique
- #anti-AI
- #ethics
- The author is strongly against AI due to its harmful impacts and considers holding this moral stance makes them an outcast.
- Concerns include environmental damage, worker exploitation, theft, cognitive skill decline, power centralization, disinformation, web degradation, and career destruction.
- Experiences of discomfort include friends using AI casually, AI-generated content in personal projects, and presentations that critique AI while using it.
- AI is seen as gaslighting users into trusting it, with power users correcting errors but regular users accepting misinformation.
- The author avoids people who promote or use AI for convenience, self-gain, or subtly encourage its use, even cutting ties with communities.
- Sympathy is expressed for those forced to use AI for work or survival, but judgment is reserved for those aware of harms who use it anyway.
- This stance leads to personal losses, such as ending friendships and leaving groups, but the author refuses to compromise their ethics.