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Oh, yeah, I get you. I’m the same way about the color purple. l won’t rest until the entire hue is eliminated from the electromagnetic spectrum, and anyone who uses it for anything, for any reason, is shunned as a degenerate.

You’re talking to a fellow obstinate. We can accomplish literally anything, no matter how outlandish or inane. I hate purple so much!!!

I clicked your name, curious why you used a seemingly real name - all of that info was immediately gleaned with a cursory glance.

“Digging through my profile” - talk about not being that bright…

You’re not going to get a straight answer. It’s futile and motivated by mental deficiency. It’s like asking why someone with OCD has to count all the different colors of Skittles in the bag before they can begin eating them.

Thanks, njm1314. Everyone here has been so cordial, polite, and deserving of grace. It’s not like they regularly post on a sub called “fuck_ai” or anything. Oh, wait… They literally do.

Thanks, Scott, I’m glad you recognize my contribution. Your opinion, specifically, means a lot to me.

Edit: you’ve had your account for four years, you’ve made a grand total of three comments, and one of them was to chastise me? A third of your Lemmy existence has been devoted to me… I’m touched.

Your analogy doesn’t track because there’s no one new being introduced into the process, just the same people using newer tools.

There’s zero ethics and licensing issues, in my humble opinion, any more than there are ethics/licensing issues when a builder watches documentaries on public broadcasting to learn how to build. The knowledge is ingested and incorporated, not copied and redistributed. However, I’ve argued with enough anti-AI zealots to know I’ll never convince you otherwise, so I won’t even try.

It is very real lunacy. Time will tell, I’m just trying to save people the heartache ahead of time. It’s likely a lost cause, but at least I tried.

By what? Are you just easily impressed and assume everyone else is, too? Your response is a mystery 🤔

You seem to miss that I just copied and pasted the comment that I was originally replying to. I was highlighting the hypocrisy, and your comment actually applies to the author of the text I copied and pasted. In effect, you have crafted my response for me. Thank you.

I can name reasons for every single one of these devices to have AI that would make them better. You lack imagination.

Here’s a few:

Toaster - it can determine the heat and duration needed for the bread/bagel based on the thickness and density, without needing to manually guess the settings

Fridge - aware of the contents so it can set the thermostat at the ideal temperature range, even better if it’s in control of internal flaps to automatically compartmentalize the contents for optimal storage

Toothbrush - able to scan your teeth while you better and inform you if your brushing was adequate or if you missed any plaque, on which teeth, and warn you of developing cavities

Bedside light - aware of if you’re in the bed, and whether you’re attempting to go to sleep, or are asleep, based on preferences and rules you give it beforehand, in plain language

I could keep going, but I think my point is made. You either lack imagination, or you’re scared of innovation, but your limitations should not hold back everyone else. I’m glad Debian is bravely embracing the future for the good of all the users, instead of hissing at the dawn of a new era, and retreating to the darkness of the past.

You’re deluding yourself, friend, and will only cause yourself more pain in the long run than if you just accepted reality now. Eradicating AI is as likely as eradicating computers themselves. I mean, I’m not going to delete the dozens of models off my devices, and I’m just one person.

Accept that innovation is here, and find a winnable battle to focus on.

You may not have noticed, but this is literally a thread about people who want to change operating systems because of the tools the creators use to develop it.

That’s like wanting to move out of your house because you found out that the builders used Ryobi or DeWalt power tools, instead of defunct manual tools by ‘Spear & Jackson’ or ‘Klein Tools,’ because in your mental illness, you object to the power tools that are taking jobs from human hands, completely ignoring the fact that there is still a human in the process, operating the tool. Or you argue that the power tools ‘stole’ all the knowledge of how to be used by the manual tools that came before them. Or whatever hilarious excuse you’ve made up to justify boycotting innovation.

It’s lunacy.

You’re making too much sense, Dr. Better stop before they turn their irrational hatred on you. You’re making it difficult for the slow-thinking Neo-Luddites to blindly hate this technology, and they have to hate something so they’ll turn their blind hatred on you!

Are the other dozen “AI is awesome!!!” with varying number of exclamation marks at the end? 🤔

But they want it to be cool to be metaphorical ostriches with their proverbial heads stuck in the figurative ground!

They don’t care. They’re hypocrites, filled with irrational hatred. Card carrying members of the “AI Hate Boner” club and that’s all they care about. Their hatred for this narrow facet of technology gives their lives meaning.

You may as well abandon life altogether, because life has been “infected” with reality.

Thank you, Experimental Guy. I’ll put it on my fridge to remind me of the time I got a star from you.

No, my Lemmy client combines the comments from all the subs for a post into a single view. You may be replying to this comment from a tech sub, but that’s not the view I have.

Fo shizzle, chat! His flow be bussin’, yo.

I would, but I’ve spent months being belittled by people on Lemmy insisting I’m wrong. Only those people with that attitude would be offended by my tone, so it seems appropriate, no?