“[Generative AI] constantly steals without consent from absolutely everything, violates privacy, and obtains money from it,” Marc, a 23-year-old AI abstainer based in Spain , told Euronews Next.

“It's a tool of capitalism to maintain worker exploitation or even bring it up to the next level”.

That brings back some of my faith in humanity.

...I need to stop complaining about Gen Z.

The kids are alright

I prefer the term AI luddites

My teen has already been through the hype cycle. Was super into chatbots…until they were not. My preteen has never been even tempted, thought it was stupid from the get-go. From the mouth of babes…!

Comparing the Anti-LLM and LIM movement to veganism is definitely something. Either way, age prohibition is not a good idea; rather, educating people about how to responsibly use technology is.

Gen Z are:

• AI dry
• AI detached
• AI free
• Anti-AI
• AI incurious
• AI indifferent
• AI aloof
• AI withdrawn

Abstainer would do a lot better of a job of giving credence to people actively avoiding AI usage due to ethical or environmental reasons; the sad reality of using either Luddite or Vegan to describe these people is due to the active negative messaging that people wanting to push unregulated technological change have charged these words with. Despite the negative connotation that Luddite has been charged with; I still use it to refer to myself as a Luddite (who is against unethical technological advancement), must like those who would also abstain from AI Usage in work or personal life settings.

As it's potential to cause harm is great; there are still cases people killing themselves ChatGPT Killed Again-Four more Dead, AI-Induced Psychosis for example. Healthy technological advancement is necessary for the benefit of all human beings, however, what we are seeing with "AI" isn't following that model. It's good that people are standing against AI, since nothing will change unless people fight against Silicon Valley's agenda.

Good to see the kids still have some hope.

"turning against"

Millennial here I avoid AI like the plauge

Since everyone here is talking about the connection between AI refusal and veganism... How's your approach towards eating animals? I mean there's more reasons to avoid AI. But I think when talking about climate change in specific... I try not to eat too much beef and I try not to use too much AI because both have a large CO2 footprint... And I think it's also ethics considerations in both cases which make something undesirable. Do you do similar things or do you think it's fundamentally different?

"thinking vegans want ypu to use ai more often"

If that term catches on I might start using AI ....