TechTakes

Could but won't. Your argument is the same as always. Is it a good idea? Yes. Would it help us affect change? Yes. Will people do it? No.

Everyone is good at either not caring or accepting an excuse they can live with so they don't have to make a sacrifice. They would follow the majority if the majority actually did something but that is very likely impossible. Any movement to boycott AI games would have to compete with literally billions of dollars invested marketing, advertising and social engineering that coerce us to buy in. At some point you just have to deal with reality that the majority really isn't an ally in waiting, its your biggest opposition, content to do whatever is easiest for themselves.

Much more significant moral and ethical issues have arisen that have also been crushed by the selfishness of the herd. If you boycott, you cut yourself off for the majority culture, in which most of our collective resources are invested. The majority is what makes being a minority, of any kind, a risk.