You Should Read This: Hating AI in 2026

I don’t think I’ve heard of Eamon Caddigan before, but the link to a post on his blog “Potentially Useful” has been going around fedi lately.

It’s called “Hating AI in 2026” and you should read it.

It doesn’t really say anything I haven’t said here many times, but it’s well-written and is from someone with professional experience dealing with the actual tech behind LLMs.

The most important thing it says, though, is:

Something seems to be lost on my peers today: it’s still easy to not use AI. The food we eat, clothes we wear, and every electronic device we touch may embody innumerable injuries to the world, and all this is inescapable. Eschewing AI is one thing that we can actually do to live out ethics that affirm values of human and environmental rights. It’s almost a gift! Just use a computer the same way you did three years ago!