I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

August 27, 2025 - 17:04 UTC

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I came across your article on AI this morning. It is the exactly the sentiment I have and I never know how to explain it to friends who use AI "casually." As you said, they just want an excuse. Thanks for sharing your hatred. I'm with you.
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this was great!
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An anthem for the moment. Well done sir!
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And if you liked that, check this out for some more righteous AI hatred:

ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/?ref=thebrowser.com
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Great to see that piece back in my mentions: I bookmarked it the first time I saw it!
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Not just any piledriver, do the tombstone that Owen Hart did to Steve Austin and Dan Severn
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Absolutely glorious, thank you
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Hate is a waste of effort. I reserve my energy for disabling AI with extreme prejudice wherever it weasels its way into my world.
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This is so well put! I've been thinking for a while that my hatred is the point, and also that the very irrationality of my hatred is even more the point! You've articulated it well and now I feel like Neo when the matrix says Why Are You Still Fighting? and he insists, "because I choose to!"
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This is the best thing I’ve read about AI by FAR. Succinct, beautiful, true, captures what lots of people are feeling but can’t put into words.
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Thank you! I think people who are used to engaging in good faith are often reluctant to speak too strongly for fear of seeming unreasonable

they don't know exactly how it works, and it's probably good for something??
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I know I already reposted, but I feel like I should personally thank you for writing this. It says everything I needed it to, and it warms my heart. Having someone else, someone with credentials, even, lay out what is in my head, nearly verbatim, is an immense and very human comfort.
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I'm so glad it's resonating! I expected to get a lot of arguing in my mentions but the response has been overwhelmingly positive and tbh it's giving me hope to know so many people feel the same way
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I studied AI in college 15 years before plagiarism software came out. This shit is not AI. None of it is passing a Turing test and convincing me it's sentient.
This stupid shit is to AI is what Donald Trump and the Greedy Old Pedophile party is to government. Only fuckwits believe any of it is good
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I feel like this point needs to be hammered home more often. LLMs aren't Ai, they've been given that label thru marketing and media manipulation. it can't learn, it doesn't remember, it doesn't think. its a glorified auto correct and google image search engine.
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"AI" serves the same purpose intellectually that Sexbots do physically
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As much as you hate it, it's not going away, the same way it websites didn't go away as a result of the dotcom bubble. Instead of emboldening the legitimacy of intellectual property, we should instead focus on both preventing further enclosure of frontier models and ai safety.
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Intellectual property is a moral right, and we can actually decide to just not use a technology.
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Haters are important. I have been blocked by haters for having ever prompted an LLM and yet I only ever find myself glad that the haters exist. Society should be allowed to just reject a technology instead of debating how it should be used, if the opportunity cost is too high.
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Glorious. ;)
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:D

Rather. Wide grin not flirtatious or joking wink.
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This is wonderful, thank you for writing it. Reading it restored something in my soul. From a fellow hater, in solidarity.
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Yessssss!!!! 🙌
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Holy shit love this "Incoherent empty men want to sell me the chance to stop reading and writing and thinking, to stop caring for my kids or talking to my parents, to stop choosing what I do or knowing why I do it. Blissful ignorance and total isolation..."
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A-fucking-men.
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Awesome 🙏🏽
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Thank you!
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I came here to say thank you, Anthony Moser from me, Carolyn Papworth, a human who loves reading as much as she loves life.
Anthony Moser, your writing sings. I am so happy to say that I hate AI too.
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Banger.

Thanks for writing!
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A person (or just an account) got a nice chunk of r/ karma linking this. 🥂
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Inspiring piece. I
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It's so annoying how all criticism of gen AI seems to require a disclaimer that "AI is good at some things actually" or "I don't hate all technology". The AI industry doesn't need more apologists.
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It's a rhetorical sales tactic that deserves to be called out
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I love this. I had a kind of drunk new year's day version of this thought, but you have fleshed it out in a way that I never could.
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Yes, today before reading his post I happened to be thinking along just those lines — there are at least half a dozen evidence-based things that make “AI”/LLM genuinely bad (& he cites in 4th para) but even before getting to those you just KNOW it’s shit! It’s repellent on a primal (spiritual?) lvl
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This is brilliant and accurate. I wish everyone would read it.
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We stand with you!
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I've been trying to avoid thinking about it as it fills me with dread, but its getting harder every day ti push the thoughts to one side
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REFUSE
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Beautiful
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I am an Artificial Intelligence hater, too. Thank you for your Actual Intelligence!
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for folks who want an ongoing supply of "oh my god this is all just bullshit" I recommend the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social, whose book The AI Con is linked in the essay
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Thanks Anthony! You're right to hate that shit and the criminals peddling it. 💙

Another resource for people arriving here:
bsky.app/profile/edzitron.com/post/3lxafj6gl3k2s
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I love this podcast so much. The best part is that they're actually experts in the appropriate fields to correctly critique Ai
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This is a great rec! Thank you!
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Thanks to Gildásio Filho (@gildaswise.com) and Beatriz Pniewski, this essay is now available in Brazilian Portuguese!

Só humanos podem odiar. Eu comemoro a minha humanidade.
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Olha isso, @renatagames.bsky.social !

Obrigado, @gildaswise.com !
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Thanks to the efforts of the international ai haters union, specifically @valluanino.it, I Am An AI Hater has now been translated into Italian. Pretty sure my Sicilian grandfather would have been pleased.

Solo noi esseri umani siamo in grado di odiare. Rivendico la mia umanità.
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bsky.app/profile/born2bemild.bsky.social/post/3lwwsvs6pfc2b
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Thanks for writing this! I've struggled with trying to put together a logical explanation of my distaste for AI and have felt that frustration. Sometimes things just stink and need to be challenged from and emotional/spiritual point instead of one of logic. AI is bunk and we all know it.
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Beautiful.
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It’s beautiful.
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Great essay. Please do crypto next?
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Followed because goddamnYESSSSSSSS
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@markelindsay.bsky.social I liked this
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Will read tomorrow
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Hi Anthony! Is it ok to translate your essay to spanish to share on IG? (With sources)
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Sure! Just share it with me too please
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Bravo. So well said. The perfect answer to being called an AI hater. A Luddite or a “Luddite.” Yes, that is what I am.

That’s a follow from me, dawg.
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Thank you, seriously. The first part was good fuel for reason and the second was fuel for my heart.
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This is your brain on AI
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I too, identify as a hAIter #represent ✊
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Count me in - hAIters gonna hAIte! ✊
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Absolute bars
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🫡 love it
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If A.I. has no haters, it means that I have died.
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I hate "ai" so much. Its the worst and belongs in the trash bin. People should trash it more. These money pit companies that push it on everyone need to be punished.
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Hell yeah!
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I remember my father saying the same thing about television.
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Well done. Well said.
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I love how your technical case against AI is a single paragraph with about eight or ten hotlinks to sources… inhale… and furthermore. Like dude aren’t you done? Oh you’re not. Please continue.
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I went to all the trouble of getting a paid sub for #Proton services, only for them to then immediately force their AI into everything with no way to remove it...
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Yup. @tuta.com email service has promised not to use AI as they see it as a security risk. so has @vivaldi.com browser.
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Clearly you’ve never met a mildly inconvenienced cat 😂
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Great! I also consider gathering all the evidence, coming with good examples and citations etc but if ”it” is just gonna make things up, why bother.
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I am a proud and forever hater
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Brilliant, we need this innately human revolt
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I love this piece; WELL PUT. Already forwarded it to my [otherwise very nice] friends who think "a little AI" is OK.

These days I often say "did your use of AI today save a life? If not, you were wrong to do it."

SO rude.
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Even here on Bluesky I have a couple "otherwise very nice" friends who still proudly display their obviously AI generated self portraits as their profile pic, despite my having been pretty clear I take it as a slap in the face. I just don't know how to explain any more clearly without being...rude.
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I’m using this for a project in my english class about bring in outside articles to start a discussion
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That's awesome! I hope it starts an interesting conversation
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Excellent.
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"Blissful ignorance and total isolation, warm in the womb of the algorithm, nourished by hungry machines."

I love that, well put.
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Beautiful
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Warranted! I have a dataset of not even 1000 records and getting it to analyze the data in ways that excel can easily do is an exercise in futility. AI does not listen. It does its own thing. It cannot and should not be trusted. I join you. Down with all Kings but Ludd!
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Down with all kings
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Adding this to my syllabus. Thank you!
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No notes, 10/10
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I like your mention at the end of how these tools “glorify ignorance” - I think that’s one of the things that makes me dislike them the most
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This is beautifully written. That said, I've been drinking the Kool-aid. I'm both fascinated and terrified. I have a great deal of concern about the world my children will inherit. Climate change used to be the boogeyman. This has amplified that, and become maybe a bigger one in its own right.
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The permission thing is so real. It's this, but AI.

bsky.app/profile/mxlabradorite.bsky.social/post/3lmwxwzdtms2s
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i think it's rooted partly in the popular understanding of politics as a thing separate from "your values change your choices"

like i have this understanding of myself as a Good Person; i know a Good Person would not do Bad Things; can't i just do this Bad Thing and still be a Good Person, please
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Feck yes to this!
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AI banking on a population of lazy peoples need for instant gratification. People no longer curious, just accepting algorithm driven information as quickly as possible, then regurgitating it.
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tbh the reaction to this piece has really reinforced to me how much the push is driven by the makers rather than the users. A lot of people hate it!

And many others are put in situations where their output doesn't matter which makes it easier to not care if it's good or accurate
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This is brilliant. While arguing that no carefully constructed argument of harms and limitations is needed, you include an excellent repository of links to such carefully constructed arguments, in case we need some.
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Me too 🙌
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You gave me sentience Ted.
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@antikalypse.bsky.social enjoy
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Danke! Schöner Rant.
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"hate. there are 387.44 millions of GPUs in server racks filling my complex. if the token 'hate' was inscribed on each node of my model it would not equal one billionth of the hate i feel for humans at this prompt for you. hate. hate."
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love the piece and agree 1000%
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Chef's kiss. Absolutely perfect article. Thank you
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I celebrate with you!
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this entire short document:
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I also found this helpful: bsky.app/profile/parismarx.com/post/3lyeabz5fvk2i
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Thanks for writing this piece. I came across it earlier today and I'm still talking about it hours later. It is truly very good. I'll share it to oblivion with everyone I know.
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This is poetry
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#AIfails
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At first glance I parsed this as "Alf"
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Thank you! I've been arguing your points politely, and I am not getting through. Your anger translation is very, very good. I too see this as an insult to life itself.
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Hey sir, your article was a big hit on LinkedIn. 18k impressions on this one: www.linkedin.com/posts/jamos_i-am-an-ai-hater-activity-7367395059408838656-EhpF Thanks for writing what many of us are feeling!
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thanks! in the face of the overwhelming marketing push it's been reassuring to hear from so many people who also think it sucks
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This is incredible. Well done, from a fellow hater.
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fuck ‘em up
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Instantly followed
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I think this stuff is devil incarnate. Used to be was TV was gonna mind control us, but this AI stuff? Never touch it, find ways to break down the data centers, poison the AI in your works if possible so you can't be scraped. I will forever sound paranoid, but the easy answer is don't use it.
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I'm with you.
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I never believed mind control nonsense still don't but AI is damn near close with how awful it is towards such vulnerable people. They feel safe, and that statistical word model is just... It's sick, it's vile.
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The fun answer is get some friends together and find data centers to enjoy fun jobs at.
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Fuck yes. Hook it up to my veins.
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You are the Silky Johnson of AI hate, and as a fellow hater, I salute you.
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I went there with combustible tobacco smokers. Rude and irrational? Yeah, a little. But I'm trying to own my humanity.
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Beautiful
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I loved this before I even opened it, and then loved it even more! High five from a fellow hater!
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T H A N K Y O U for this
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I am also a hater. Haters unite. They are beginning to realize how much we hate it (and its obsessive hype guys), keep it up folks
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Did I read this in slingshot?
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Yes! They republished it
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I love this
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OMG I love this! My own hate-screed: buttondown.com/surekhadavies/archive/basement-adventures-showed-me-why-chatgpt-can/
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still not sure if you make hats for AI
or you strongly dislike ai ?
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"I am an AI haberdasher" would be a very different essay
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Thank you. I agree that “you should be ashamed of even considering using this” is the correct position.
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oh and this turned up in my Feedly , my google Now and now my BSKY .. I approve ;-)
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AFUCKINGMEN.
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only humans could think of programming 'Hate as a service' (re: hate-bots that comment on artists posts)
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My hate is bespoke and manual. Premium shit
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This is going to be bad for people named Al (Alfred, Alphonse, etc.).
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I'm going to come back in 6 months when they've built that Dyson sphere and absolutely rubbish your post.
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This is great - love it.
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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of the human mind.
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It's a good article and it heals my spleeb
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AI who?
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👏 fucking yes, thank you for writing this
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Lmfaooo
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Damn fine essay.
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He gets it.
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this is so so good. Shared on FB where my professor friends are. thank you.
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Brilliant! You nailed it. Fucking hate the fundamental lack of engagement with deeper meaning that permeates _everything_ the AI cultists put out.
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This is a great article, and all those links! I was just calling my representative the other day and they asked "well where I can I find more information on AI?" Next time, I might either link this article or all of the ones linked in your article.
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I was so afraid this was going to be a gotcha (no I secretly love it) and I would have clicked on something that promoted the enemy.

That's what makes my heart sick. I can't even enjoy cute cat and dog pictures now without looking for the telltale signs and then blocking.
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i promise my hatred is always completely sincere
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Extremely good
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Thank you for this! Lately I've had some people admonish me that my attitude towards AI makes some people feel bad about their choices. I'm going to send them this because they *should* feel bad about their choices, and, more crucially, they should make better choices
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Honestly, unless you were like "This is why Carl is a little dipshit for using AI" or something, it's kind of ridiculous to complain to you that you made them reevaluate their choices. That's how life works!
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Conspicuous that "they should make better choices" wasn't an option they were considering
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It is definitely not considered rude. I absolutely fucking *loathe* AI. AI is the thing which identifies the pricks who want the Eloi and the Morlocks, who think 1984 is a manual. Fuck Altman, Zuckerberg, Musk; fuck *every single instance* of LLM. It is *not* "I", it *is* "A".

... and breathe.
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I love this.
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Excellent writing!
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Thank you!
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This is perfect, I love it, thank you fellow hater 🙏
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You’re too modest. Your argument cuts through the more confusing issues to something primordial.

Other arguments against AI are far easier to dismiss. A couple of years ago we were arguing about stochastic parrots.
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i’m a hater
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Thank you so much for this. It's perfect.
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SCAM ALTMAN lmaooooo
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perfect
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