I can't just
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@researchfairy "is a major driver of climate change"? Currently or (potentially) in the future?
@mikill Why are you nitpicking this?
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
@researchfairy @tante
I resemble this remark. At least one student per semester submitting something without even hiding that it's LLM Bullshit. Not sure howmajy are using it and hiding it well instead oflearning to walk sk they can later run (I'm teaching writing skills at ug and pg. levels) -
@tanghus @researchfairy uBlacklist. https://ublacklist.github.io/
Works with DuckDuckGo and others as well as Google.
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We need the option to create, share, and curate blacklists!
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
@researchfairy Yeah, I feel that. It's like the App Store review process; I can follow all the rules, but I'm still subject to the downstream effects of other developers spamming, scamming, or just shipping garbage. It lowers the bar for everyone.
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
@researchfairy It's a very sad situation. AI has some very helpful uses, from finding errors in pagues upon pages of config very quickly, to helping those who are disable, etc... But the WAY it's being used, and the way it's being shoved in to absolutely everything, and the scale of it all, the AI situation we have right now is so incredibly destructive.
It's like harnessing radiation. We can make energy cleaner than coal and treat cancer, or we can nuke people. ...we nuked people -
I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
@researchfairy you can always choose NetBSD. NetBSD foundation rejects AI code commits. More funds are needed to such foundations. While Linux graciously allows AI
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
I would not look at this as 0-1 situation. If someone opposes a thing, one can not use it and loudly say about the reasons. It does not mean that everything around will change, but we need living examples that life without harmful things is possible. This can be inspiring to others. If people would have to stop using AI right now, the ban would have to come from autocrat - which is fine, but people would not understand why this change is needed.
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
The billionaires promoting AI are some of the worst people on the planet.
Wannabe despots just like Putin, Koch Network, & #PrinceBonesaw. The greed.
All assuring us of their benign intent while frying the planet, eroding democracy & law, evading taxation, & creating huge mass layoff schemes
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/19/billionaires-ai-complacency-resistance
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-new-ai-billionaires-list/
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/jeff-bezos-taxes-ai-corporations-trump.html
https://www.gadgetreview.com/silicon-valleys-soothing-lies-about-your-ai-future
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/ai-boom-young-billionaires/685360/
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/technology/new-billionaires-ai-boom.html
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I can't just
"Not use AI"
AI is polluting the world and is a major driver of climate change, and even if I don't use it, it is still hurting me
AI is actively destroying the scientific literature that I need to work with, and even if I refuse to use it, it is still making my life worse
AI is deskilling my colleagues and stunting my students' growth in a way that I can't fight or compensate for
I don't use it for anything, but I still can't fucking "opt out"
@researchfairy AI is not a major driver of climate change.
All IT is responsible for about 2% of greenhouse gas emissions. AI is responsible for about 0.1% of greenhouse gas emissions.
You can know the actual major drivers of climate change. They are published annually by most countries, states, cities and companies. They are things like gas cars, cement manufacturing, rice cultivation, cattle.
I'm not arguing for AI; I'm arguing against not understanding climate change.
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