"AI is a tool" he said. Hmmm, we're not sure a 'tool' needs to be used this much instead of doing it yourself.

There's another word for that...

A new list has been added to ublock origin that "removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites."

Thanks to Elle for sharing.

Yes, using 'AI' for translation is harmful and unhelpful in many ways. This article explains some of the reasons why.

We've found it incredibly useful for figuring out what is going on with a codebase.

Proof

Rebuttal by Andrew Tridgell

Image description: Showing a log of moderation about us. We featured a post in this community, the post being "Just Say No to AI" and got banned from several communities promoting AI.

A list of projects that pledged not to use AI or are disrupting it. Very useful for finding software that either isn't or won't be 'AI' tainted, even if they're forks of those that are.

Found here or Third party privacy frontend

Image description: It's Teenage Nomi-Nomi from the game I Was a Teenage Exocolonist (IWATEx).

They have Multicolored hair that is Pink, Orange, Blue, White and Black. They are have a happy expression on their face. Their eyes are blue with a bit of gold in them and they have star shaped pupils. They have hearts drawn or painted under their eyes. They have a small adhesive bandage on the left side of their jawline.

They are wearing a black shirt facing them and down on the right, again facing them. They are wearing a sweater with a collar/hood thing attached to it. Just above their shoulders is some metal with a necklace attached to it with a triangle pointing up on the left, and on the right another one pointing down. Their sweater is very baggy and magenta at the top slowly fading into orange as it goes down.

Under their black shirt they are wearing shorts or short purple leggings that go down to just above their knees. On their knees are more adhesive bandages which are individually blue, pink and white. Below that on their right leg they have a white sock pulled all the way up inside their boot. The boots they are wearing are black and pink.

On the right boot it has two stars and on the left boot it has three stars, the top one is at the top and goes beyond the top of the boot, and has a line next to it. The soles of their boot are also pink.

They are standing on purple-bluey grass next to a shrub or small tree in front of a path. Behind them a little way down the path is a starship which has wooden stairs constructed next to it leading up to a door in the side. The sky above them is dark with shades of blue and purple, it is raining.

Next to them someone has inserted a screenshot of a post by reb (@rebmasel) which says "I was put on this earth to be silly and then die what is all this brutal reality and grief doing here. interrupting my silly"

A really good analysis of relationship anarchy and how we can be our best selves, allow others to be their best selves whilst still being true to relationship anarchy principles.

In this video Dr. Fatima gives an empathetic speech, and information, about 'AI' and how to actually work against it whilst being caring, collaborative and collective.

Personally this convinced us, not to start using 'AI', we still don't like it and don't want to see output from it ever.

However, we do see that shaming others is not necessarily the best way to stop their use and that if we want to really see 'AI' addiction and use to drop then the way to do that is to help people more. Have more easy to access information when people are struggling and collectively protest the companies killing our planet with it.

Also to educate ourselves and others, getting literate in 'AI' reduces its usage after all. Much like with other harmful things.

We have been thinking about something someone said on a podcast "AI isn't a tool. It's a lack of one." and we agree wholeheartedly.

LLMs, ML and GANs etc aren't tools. Tools expand creativity, skills, and knowledge etc, they solve problems because they were created by people that understand them.

All 'AI' does is make creativity suffer and make people lose their skills and knowledge. Even small things like being able to speak/understand other languages now have gone to 'AI' translation instead of learning those languages, that's a travesty.

Tools are an extension of abilities. 'AI' makes us an extension of itself, thus those that use it are the tools of 'AI' instead, to be used by a machine that is a glorified predictive text algorithm, and that's really sad, any way it's looked at.

So we recommend throwing away these not tools and starting to learn, build back confidence, knowledge, skills, a joy for creating, even if it's difficult at first. It's better than letting a glorified predictive text algorithm steal all those things, and lose them to it.