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If it helps I think you just need to read the question as "Do you want AI in the form that is currently being offered." For all intents and purposes, that's the question being asked, because that's how the average person is going to read it.
The fact that AI can be a totally different product that doesn't fundamentally suck is nice to know, but doesn't exactly offer anything to most people.
That is like arguing that climate change could have been addressed. Yes, but it was never going to be. Zero chance from day one. Zero chance from twenty six years back when I learned about it in more depth.
Yes it could be, but it never was going to be. No chance it is theoretical.
The problem is being “anti AI” smothers open weights ML, doing basically nothing against corporate AI.
The big players do not care. They’re going to shove it down your throats either way. And this whole fuss is convenient, as it crushes support for open weights AI and draws attention away from it.
What I’m saying is people need to be advocating for open weights stuff instead of “just don’t use AI” in the same way one would advocate for Lemmy/Piefed instead of “just don’t use Reddit”
The Fediverse could murder trillions of dollars in corporate profit with enough critical mass. AI is the same, but it’s much closer to doing it than people realize.