Mastodon users debate the feasibility of refusing AI adoption
A thread on LLM inevitability sparks discussion about individual resistance to AI tools.
What to know
- The conversation centers on whether individuals can successfully refuse LLM adoption, with one user claiming sustained non-adoption is practical and others skeptical.
- Supporters of refusal draw parallels to car rejection and frame AI adoption as an escapable corporate trap; skeptics argue systemic adoption is inevitable regardless of personal choice.
- The thread reflects broader tension between individual agency and corporate control over technology deployment.
The dispute Whether individual refusal of LLMs is meaningfully possible or whether systemic corporate adoption makes personal non-use practically irrelevant. · positions read across 5 posts and comments
Individual refusal of LLMs is practical and achievable with sufficient discipline.
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“People are like, you can't refuse LLMs forever, someday you'll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.”
aworkinglibrary · Mastodon
Individual refusal cannot prevent systemic victimization by LLMs since corporations control deployment.
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“Unfortunately, we'll all be getting victimized by LLMs for the foreseeable future - no matter how effective our refusals are. It's like global CO2 levels. Known culprits cause the issue; but those same culprits control the spigots.”
kboyd@phpc.social · Mastodon
Refusing AI is difficult in practice despite sympathizing with the philosophy.
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“I wish I had this sort of discipline, but I messed up by doing NaNoGenMo and playing with procedural generation before the LLMs hit and ruined all the fun...”
kirch@tilde.zone · Mastodon
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What people are saying 5 voices from 1 site · verbatim
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RE: https:// mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/ 117123415939242403 Same
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RE: https:// mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/ 117123415939242403 Unfortunately, we'll all be getting victimized by LLMs for the foreseeable future - no matter how effective our refusals are. It's like global CO2 levels. Known culprits cause the issue; but those same culprits control the spigots.
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RE: https:// mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/ 117123415939242403 I wish I had this sort of discipline, but I messed up by doing NaNoGenMo and playing with procedural generation before the LLMs hit and ruined all the fun... If I generate 1000 sentences with a corporate AI, one of them might be worth keeping, it's like a casino... I do need to get a…
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RE: https:// mstdn.social/@aworkinglibrary/ 117123415939242403 Cars are the OG corpo convenience trap. If you can refuse them, you can refuse Amazon or OpenAI
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People are like, you can’t refuse LLMs forever, someday you’ll have to use them. But listen, motherfuckers, I have been refusing to drive a car for the entirety of the twenty-first century. I am *practiced.* Refusing AI is easy mode.