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Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected (theconversation.com)
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[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world -1 points 7 hours ago

I very much understand wanting to have a say against our data being freely harvested for AI training. But this article's call for a general opt-out of interacting with AI seems a bit regressive. Many aspects of this and other discussions about the "AI revolution" remind me about the Mitchell and Web skit on the start of the bronze age: https://youtu.be/nyu4u3VZYaQ