Licking the AI Boot

So here we are: the tech and AI magnates are universally either falling in behind fascism or actively driving it. They're also desperately pushing us to use a technology that doesn't work as intended, that cripples our ability to think critically or work effectively and that can lie to us in ways they mostly control whenever they feel like doing it. Moreover, they insist on us believing all the lies that they tell us and dismissing the evidence of our own senses. They insist on being able to control our perception of them as brilliant, strong, genius leaders, and they insist on us being unable (either through incapacity or unwillingness) to think for ourselves. This is quite directly Orwellian, and it makes the fact that the industry hasn't caught on and isn't meaningfully responding to this all the more shocking. The corporate world is still talking about AI in exactly the same way they were previously: rampant boosterism or milquetoast and inadequate critique that it “doesn't always work”.

At this point, refusing to use AI, and especially LLM tools is an act of resistance. Give them no quarter. Purge them whenever you find them. Turn off Copilot. Poison any data that you put out into the world, and make it as difficult as possible for AI bots to train from your data. Treat the people who mindlessly boost AI as collaborators.

Source: DeadSimpleTech.com (Iris Meredith) (archive) / Noted: 2025 March 2 / Discuss: On Dreamwidth