I buy products that explicitly mention their quality differentiation, this is no different than “100% Made in USA.” That’s literally how a free market and value discovery is supposed to work with available information.

If I want slop, I have my own Claude subscription. I’m willing to pay for hand crafted, artisanal knowledge and thought products. “Vote with your wallet.”

Without taking sides:

People driven mainly by self-interest are more likely to act without principle, and also likely to be outraged when that's pointed out—because it's not in their interest. Accusing them of bad behavior is the outage from their point of view because, in this framing, behavior that is theirs cannot be bad. The actual behavior is irrelevant. When sometime is not principled, in general or on some issue in particular, their interests and the moral good are one and the same.

It is very hard for people who see wants as normatives to have productive discussion with those who see them as descriptives. The gulf between the value systems is too wide.

Sounds like a them problem.

The reasoning you describe seems somewhat self centered.

I'm not sure I want to worry too much about people who go through life assuming everyone else's statements are a direct commentary about themselves.

I think what you're referring to is mostly "shame".

When someone comes out and takes a stand against something like AI for _any_ reasons: if those reasons are good or just, people that use AI will feel shame either consciously or subconsciously.

It's natural for those that feel shame to lash out at a perceived attack even if they don't fully understand why they feel the attack to begin with.

> Making a declaration that you are rejecting AI can come across as implying use of AI is a moral failing.

There's nothing moral about using AI to replace the same artists whose work was used to train it.

Indeed, the linked article goes so far as to explicitly state, "Our magazine is committing itself to remaining handmade. Ensure every publication you support does the same."

> use of AI is a moral failing

For producing content... yes. yes it is.

How dare you expect to vomit into the street and expect me to treat it like flowers.

This trend in other areas of life is becoming boring and tiring.

The double think is astounding.

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Plus for all good that llms can bring to mankind, they will probably bring 10x or 100x more negative, bordering on evil with no solution in sight.

Unemployment in hundreds of millions globally? Loss of part that makes us humans in many creative aspects? People getting visibly and measurably dumber and lazier, including top performers?

Absolutely 0 solutions, nobody cares. People here on HN often just think its not their problem, they can cash those bonuses and rest of mankind can go fuck themselves and serve them for near nothing, being on top /near top of the pile is the ultimate goal. At least this seems to be unspoken part of many llm discussions here. Pathetic. It seems this is way more typical mindset in US compared to say in Europe and tells a few things about current US society, but nothing nice.

We are losing a significant part of our humanity if llms really deliver on their promise and not just crash global economy big time which on its own is huge problem. People steering this are mostly typical high functioning sociopaths like altman focused on money and power, so dont expect those to care.

So yeah, there are concerns to say the least, not everybody operates on autistic narrow tube view of the world as themselves and thats it. Some of us have kids too.