Post #362685

2026-02-22 10:34 UTC

The LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days. Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse. LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators. Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.

Replies (8)

@mollymay5000@sunny.garden 2026-02-22 10:58

@reading_recluse I spend a lot of my time these days trying not to send middle finger emojis to people to be honest... Probably isn't very socially acceptable, but it's how I feel.

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@kevinrns@mstdn.social 2026-02-22 11:30

@reading_recluse Yes indeed. Brava, bravo.

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@leah@chaos.social 2026-02-22 11:44

@reading_recluse exactly this.

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@firepoet@tech.lgbt 2026-02-22 12:11

@reading_recluse Me, too!

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@papageier@digitalcourage.social 2026-02-22 12:13

@reading_recluse You do wear machine-woven cloth, though, no? Seriously: Why? It's exploitative, the quality is mediocre, it kills jobs, it's a waste of resources, consumes vast amounts of energy, hinders creativity, destroys small businesses, forces uniformity onto people ... why wear it? Because not doing so would be a waste of time. And time is the one resource that's (still) strictly limited for all of us. We compromise on the quality of clothing (debatable), in order to do other things we couldn't if we were still weaving cloth manually. When mechanical weaving machines came about, the workers threw their wooden shoes, in French 'Sabot', into the machines to stop them. All that is left of this effort is a word describing the futile attempt: Sabotage. So protest all you like, it's just not going to get you anywhere.

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@xs4me2@mastodon.social 2026-02-22 12:19

@reading_recluse LLM are not an expression of speech nor creativity and simply digest, explore and reorder information available. They are a tool and can be useful to digest and explore information at great speed but essentially are not more than that. For anything in opinion, creativity, art and commenting I will be looking at human expression, always.. The problem is society will be confronted with loads of LLM nonsense and disinformation in due time. Seeing it online more and more.

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@mattijamsa@c.im 2026-02-22 14:23

@reading_recluse@c.im I admit to having created songs with AI, pictures with AI, code with AI, clips of video with AI, everything more out of curiosity than nothing else. But generating text with AI, where is the fun in that...? AI generated text gives me that immediate uncanny valley effect more so than video, music, or pictures. I've quit buying the Sunday edition of a certain newspaper because reading some articles I was sure there's AI involved there. If I got that feeling reading a novel, what a disappointment that would be.

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@bazkie@beige.party 2026-03-05 22:02

@reading_recluse@c.im could not agree more. I don't like people wasting my time with their slop

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