no unprompted #ai prompts please

unless i explicitly ask, and even then give me an “are you sure?” modal with a surgeon general’s warning of the long-term effects of outsourcing one’s innate creativity to a statistical average of other people’s old ideas

seriously, how are people supposed to learn how to create or communicate or learn anymore?

mass illiteracy/ incuriosity/ passivity aren’t even *unintended* consequences, right? they gotta know what they’re doing to humanity, right?

right?

reminder: the Luddites were not anti-*technology*. They were anti-*factory owners firing weavers and replacing them with lower-paid loom workers*. They could have retrained the weavers and kept their pay high, but bosses gonna boss. We are all Luddites today.

The name later became a slur because the bosses won, and used propaganda to hide the history, and because smashing looms is a dramatic symbol, and humans like retelling dramatic stories, not depressing facts.

Luddite - Wikipedia

(en.wikipedia.org)