If you try not to use AI, what is your reasoning?

[kibrika@toot.lv]

@davidnjoku I don't really have a use case for it. I don't trust it as a search engine (and have had no luck there). I don't trust it with data privacy, so I can't put in work stuff. I have trouble enough not isolating from people as I am, so I don't want to casually chat with it.

[alkaid@social.lol]

@davidnjoku And it's just so damn boring...even the most inventive use cases are just an updated version of Thomas Jefferson's "dumbwaiters". The unseen (and horribly underpaid) workers actually piloting the machine.

We don't have "AI." We have "AI at home".

[afeinman@wandering.shop]

@davidnjoku All of that, and: It is built on stolen work, and continues to steal work unabashedly.

[davidnjoku@mastodon.world]

@agturcz

[gareth@tenforward.social]

@davidnjoku Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh, and also yes.

Hurrah for multiple choice polls!

[ohmrbill@techhub.social]

@davidnjoku
It's an entitlement digi-bot drug for me.

It helps to kill people.
And so on...

Bill

[kierkegaanks@beige.party]

@davidnjoku it’s a balance between not being able to search anymore, and everything bad, including how error prone it is

[wanabeselkie@mastodon.social]

@davidnjoku all of the above

[mpheng@c.im]

@kibrika @davidnjoku Same here. Not sure which option that would fall under, though.

[beandreams@friendhole.social]

@davidnjoku @AlsoPaisleyCat All of the above, and also I find it unpleasant to interact with. I similarly avoid movies made by rapists and white supremacists, corporate advertising, spending time in mall parking lots, etc... General psychic self-defense, I guess?

[iris@neuromatch.social]

@davidnjoku mostly 1 and 3 but all four apply.

[shadowdancer@mstdn.social]

@davidnjoku
None of those as I don't try.

Do or do not. There is no try.

[minego@pdx.social]

@davidnjoku I voted, and selected all 4 options... but you missed my biggest reason.

I LIKE CREATING!

I like coding. I like making art. I like expressing myself. *sigh*

[smohc_stahc@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@davidnjoku I would like to add the option "It makes me less knowledgeable".

There are intricate systems in languages. It's a great loss to utilize these systems without understanding them. It feels like having a latin bible verse read before an english sermon. How will you know when the priests are selling you indulgences?

[rustyknight07@mastodon.me.uk]

@davidnjoku I don't use it because 90% of the time it's wrong.
That wasn't an option

[pierrette@mastodon.uno]

@davidnjoku
All of the above

[natalyad@disabled.social]

@davidnjoku Errors, privacy concerns (both providers and governments), deskilling humans/myself, and all of the reasons above.

I also worry Tech Bros will make us all dependent, kill off alternatives, then start ramping up the cost/privacy issues and basically have control over our lives which I don't want to agree to.

[fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk]

@davidnjoku all of these, plus "ai psychosis", plus studies show it rots your thinking processes.

[greengaybles@sunny.garden]

@davidnjoku All of the above, as others have said, but for me it's mostly the middle two. The harm it does is not outweighed by any good that might come from it, and I haven't seen any significant good come from it yet anyway.

[greengaybles@sunny.garden]

@minego @davidnjoku This is a great point. There are few pleasures that equal working on a poem or an essay and finally getting it exactly right, expressing the thing I wanted to express. I've spent most of my life writing, badly and then less badly and then well, to be able to do this. AI takes that whole journey away, which is what some people want, but the process is the best part for me. AI also doesn't produce good writing, but even if it did, it would still make for a joyless experience.