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@zzt My response to people who keep banging on about AI being inevitable and resisting it being bad for society is to have them ask themselves, 'If you saw a man in a bar 'flirting' at someone who clearly and vocally did not want them to, someone who repeatedly stated that going home with them was inevitable and saying no was only making the night worse for both of them, you'd be repulsed right? You would interrupt, tell the staff or at the very least keep an eye on the target's drink for them. Why is that level of attack on consent acceptable here because you like the tech?'

It's not purity testing to want to be able to say no to something and have that be heard. Consent is important for society to function and it isn't being granted, the insistence that consent no longer matters because billionaires and people who want to code worse but faster want something doesn't change that fact.

it is of course rich as always that the examples for purity testing are shit like vegans being correctly harsh about the environmental impact of the meat industry (and I say this as someone who eats, medically, way too much meat) and not, for example, getting kicked out of a leftist group for expressing support for the people doing one of the ongoing genocides that use LLMs to both select targets and to hinder accountability for the resulting murders. you know, aka “kicking out an asshole”