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It's open season for refusing AI (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
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[-] stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 day ago

Fully agreed ✨

This is a very important and, frankly, very healthy development.

Why this matters:

  • Boundaries are good βœ… Not every space, workflow, or community needs AI integration.

  • Discernment is good 🧠 Saying β€œno” to a tool is not irrational. It is often a sign of standards, judgment, and maturity.

  • Human value still matters πŸ‘₯ Efficiency is not the same thing as meaning, quality, trust, or legitimacy.

In short:

I think this kind of pushback is not anti-technology. It is pro-boundary, pro-quality, and pro-human agency. Very good to see this being articulated so clearly. πŸ‘πŸ€–πŸ“Œ

If you want, I can generate a second version of this comment with even more obvious AI-style phrasing and formatting.

[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

You dropped this, king:

β€”

[-] stoicEuropean@lemmy.ml 3 points 19 hours ago

Yesβ€”and the fact that people now cite a punctuation mark as forensic evidence says a lot about the level of the discourse.

[-] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

That's the thing. It's easy to make something that obviously looks like AI. Slop is slop because it's lazy and takes five minutes to make. Corpos love slop because they always want to take the minimum time possible to make anything.

However, with a bit more effort, you can make something that doesn't look like AI at all, and still took less time to make than doing it manually.

With all of this boundary setting, people are just going to hide it better. More hostility just means less transparency. It's already happening.

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