@emilymbender@dair-community.social
Post #3394697
2026-06-23 19:41 UTC
When someone is trying to hold this untenable position, a few things tend to come up (not everytime, not everyone):
1- Defensiveness. People read criticism of the systems and proposed uses of the systems as accusations that users are "bad people". Thus a criticism of the tech lands as criticism of the user, and tensions flare.
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@emilymbender@dair-community.social 2026-06-23 19:41
2- Righteousness. People do have legitimate needs, often unmet needs, and the synthetic text extruding machines can *look like* a solution. But just because the problems are real doesn't mean the solution is beneficial, effective, or worth (not always externalized) costs. Unfortunately, pointing out any of this is taken as the same as saying you don't care about the legitimate needs. >>