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Thank goodness for Smokezilla, an ethical cigarette company that advocates for healthier living funded by billions from Philip Morris.
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User interface pretending to be human: fraud.
Statistical sentence generation described as “intelligence”: fraud.
Telling people, often children, to commit dangerous or criminal acts: all sorts of crimes.
Scientific papers generated, non-existing cases quoted at court, homework faked, artists ripped-off: fraud and copyright infringement.
Training based on unlicensed works: copyright infringement.
Data centers with tax incentives and special energy pricing: theft.
Promises to investors of AGI: fraud.
Government bailouts with taxpayer money: theft and fraud.
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Media and politicians: This is innovation, don’t get left behind.
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yeah, that dishwasher isn’t so “smart” now, is it?
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still of Admiral Akbar from Star Wars where in the movie they say “It’s a Trap!” but replaced with “It’s an app!”
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no I don’t want to install your app for something that used to be a button or putting a coin in a slot
no I don’t want to join your discord simply so I can file a bug on your project and idle on the server for three weeks until someone replies
no I don’t want to rate my experience, it took 20 seconds and it’ll take longer than that to form an opinion
no I don’t want to create an account to save my information for a future interaction, and your demand that I do decreases the likelihood there will be one
no I don’t want to do whatever thing you’re only offering a “maybe later” for; my stubbornness is stronger than your belief in eventuality
no I don’t want to connect to the internet something that, twenty years ago, wouldn’t have had a computer in it
no I don’t want to use your javascript compiler extension’s custom file format, in a better language that could have been a macro or a data format
no I don’t want to install the copy protection for your audio plugin, no matter how good you claim the plugin is, nor how unobtrusive you claim the background process is
no I don’t want your new AI thing, I want you to fix that bug I filed five years ago
what part of no don’t you understand?
the part where I’m claiming self-determination or the part where it’s less convenient for your assumptions?
I didn’t want to be a grumpy old man, but the internet and capitalism had other plans
I didn’t want to become so defensive, but I need my technology to serve me, not the other way around
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"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.