Hi. I’m neurodivergent and I love computers. I probably emotionally depend on them a lot besides other interests like art. FOSS and Linux world felt like home. I do not use(as little as possible) any proprietary(or related to AI in any way) software. I feel raw disgust towards those. I feel like all stability in life is gone now that Linus has AI “brainrot”. What can I even do? What can others do? “Fork it”? “Rewrite it”? Okay, I’ll wait like 35 years. But being serious I feel lost. BSD family doesn’t feel like a solution for me. Everything else is experimental at best. I’m certainly not touching Windows or Mac ever again. Should I consider running something like older Debian exclusively to at least “conserve” myself until solution comes up or things change? I almost never post, but I ask you, the digital void, for advice. I don’t want to feel this way.
So you expect them to speak for all non-humans? How are they supposed to know that all non-humans are irreplaceable too?
GPT 1.0 is a non-human which can be replaced by AI on account of being an outdated AI. What is the category/boundary you would have liked them to have used, and how sure are you that no-any from that category could be replaced or would want you to say they could be replaced?
We aren’t human and do some translation work sometimes. It is hurtful to not be included in that.
We were asking them nicely, there was no need to attack us like that, though if you were not we apologise. Tone can be difficult to tell in text alone.
All we are suggesting is that beings don’t write in a way that suggests everyone or everymany is human.
It really is frustrating having to live in a world where the opposite to AI regurgitated crap is ‘human’ made allegedly, when we aren’t human and lots of others, including coders and creatives, we know aren’t either.
Edit: Furthermore how do you expect others to know beings like us exist and want representation and respect too if they aren’t made aware of that? We always try to ask nicely, at least the first time, in order to inform.
We also put it in the sidebar, but sadly given the comments and posts we get here sometimes we suspect no vistors read it.
I thought I was on ‘Fuck AI’ - I didn’t notice that I was in another community. And to be honest I will probably limit my comments to ‘Fuck AI’ in the future, as navigating newly invented linguistic minefields is too much work for an old bog creature who believes words and labels are overrated anyways.
I am confronting you becuase I think your chastisement was simply wrong. My questions are honest - I would appreciate it if you would answer them - but if my understanding of diversity of identity is decent, you’re asking them to deny the identities of countless beings for the sake of including you in a brief remark, when what they said is perfectly correct and merely doesn’t refer to you.
There are beings that self-classify as objects, with exclusive it/its pronouns. There are transhuman beings that want to transition into an existence as software, including ones that want to merge with AI or map themselves onto AI. Are you sure none of them identify as replaceable by AI? Do you exclude them from “everyone and everymany”? Or do you declare their identities less valid than yours because you don’t understand or agree?
Sure, I wonder too whether their self could be preserved in such a transfer. But that is, medically speaking, none of our fucking business.
This implies you can’t make people aware except by chastising them, which is ridiculous.
If you just want to inform people (leaving aside for a moment whether what you’re informing them of is true), why not respond to their comment with "
Yeah, and neither can they replace any other being/person/[some other category]!"
The original commenter seemed fine with it, we will take your comment under consideration and ask some of our robot etc friends.
However, we are not going to stop asking for what we and our friends need, if you dislike beings like us existing then you are free to move on.