Post #1993669
2026-03-21 03:55 UTC
@Joshsharp
Honest answer: The same way that I'm writing this on a phone which both in the production process and as a software-social ecosystem has obvious moral and ethical implications. Or how I use retirement investment funds which likely prop up the price of many terrible corporations. Nothing's perfect and we make imperfect choices of balancing comfort of life with the world impact every single day.
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@Joshsharp@aus.social 2026-03-21 04:59
@viraptor I get that, but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" doesn't mean we should just give up
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@bobthomson70@mastodon.social 2026-03-21 08:37
@viraptor @Joshsharp that’s a fair point. The slight difference to me is that if smart phones were replaced with Nokia bricks tomorrow, there would be a bit of an impact and adjustment to make that’d take time, whereas I think if all LLM chatbots ceased tomorrow, there would be little impact at all for the vast majority of folk, so we are not at all at a stage with LLM where they are indispensable and who knows when or if we will be for the average person?
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 2026-03-21 10:06
@viraptor @Joshsharp