"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

[baldur@toot.cafe]

"Stop saying that AI is just a tool and it only matters how it is used"

https://www.frank.computer/blog/2025/05/just-a-tool.html

> Believing that AI is “just a tool” is naive at best and dismissive at worst because nothing about tools is “just” anything.

[xan@xantronix.social]

@baldur LLMs are easily one of, if not the most, political tools to happen to computing in history, that's for goddamned sure

[astifter@mastodon.astifter.com]

@baldur An axe is just a tool as long as you don't watch The Shining.
A hammer is just a tool as long as Maxwell is not wielding it.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@baldur Tools are designed to be used a certain way.

[thetangentspace@mathstodon.xyz]

@baldur great article

[alex@social.alexschroeder.ch]

@baldur this was a great read, thanks for the link.

[256k@merveilles.town]

@baldur really enjoyed that!