The post is aimed at me facing situations where I state among people I know that I don't use AI, followed by them asking why not. Instead of driving them out by stating "Just because" or get into jargons that are completely unbeknownst to them, I wish to properly inform them why I have made this decision and why they should too.
I am also able to identify people to whom there's no point discussing this. I'm not asking to convince them too.
My question was genuine. I haven't been an avid user of generative AI when it was first released and decided against using it at all lately. I tried to use it in niche projects and was completely unreliable. Its tone of speech is bland and the way it acts as a friend feels disturbing to me. Plus the environmental destruction it is causing on such a large scale is honestly depressing to me.
All that being said, it is not easy for me to communicate these points clearly to someone the way I have experienced it. It's like the case for informing people about privacy; casual users aren't inherently aware of the consequences of using this tool and consider it a godsend. It will be difficult for them to convince that the tool they cherish to use so much is not that great after all, thus I am asking here what the beat approach should be.
The post is aimed at me facing situations where I state among people I know that I don't use AI, followed by them asking why not. Instead of driving them out by stating "Just because" or get into jargons that are completely unbeknownst to them, I wish to properly inform them why I have made this decision and why they should too.
I am also able to identify people to whom there's no point discussing this. I'm not asking to convince them too.