You get to pick the hill that you die on, but what I am saying is even if they don’t use AI - they still use bookkeeping software, they still file taxes, they still order supplies, they have an email, website and someplace they store documents.
So AI can be your hill that is fine, but you are still picking the lesser evil in other ways. As you said, “I guess if you don’t see your money directly go to OpenAI, it helps you sleep at night better. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say.”
Took me a bit to realize multiple of my comments are getting lengthy replies by the same person, and that said person isn’t either of the commenters I was replying to.
You, of course, get to pick whatever criteria you want for supporting or not supporting businesses. But I don’t appreciate walls of text trying to shame me into supporting AI slop.
As I’ve said before (as you’ve surely seen since you’ve seemingly scoured this entire thread to find people who disagree with you), there are businesses that don’t support big corporations in their operations. And if you can’t find any in your local area (presumably the US?), then you can live with the knowledge that your “lesser evil” slop-normalizing rhetoric helped make that happen.
Or I find a small shop that doesn’t use AI and support them. And if you think they don’t exist any more, well, you helped make that happen.
You get to pick the hill that you die on, but what I am saying is even if they don’t use AI - they still use bookkeeping software, they still file taxes, they still order supplies, they have an email, website and someplace they store documents.
So AI can be your hill that is fine, but you are still picking the lesser evil in other ways. As you said, “I guess if you don’t see your money directly go to OpenAI, it helps you sleep at night better. Out of sight, out of mind, as they say.”
Took me a bit to realize multiple of my comments are getting lengthy replies by the same person, and that said person isn’t either of the commenters I was replying to.
You, of course, get to pick whatever criteria you want for supporting or not supporting businesses. But I don’t appreciate walls of text trying to shame me into supporting AI slop.
As I’ve said before (as you’ve surely seen since you’ve seemingly scoured this entire thread to find people who disagree with you), there are businesses that don’t support big corporations in their operations. And if you can’t find any in your local area (presumably the US?), then you can live with the knowledge that your “lesser evil” slop-normalizing rhetoric helped make that happen.
I didn’t realize I was also replying to you over and over. I also understand that you are purposely missing the point. So I’ll leave it at that.
If your “point” is defending slop, then yes, let’s leave it at that.