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aredridel@kolektiva.social ("Mx. Aria Stewart") wrote:
"AI" has introduced whole new ways to be incredibly rude and our social habits have not yet adapted.
If you're feeling frustrated by only having "that's unethical" as a thing to push back on AI, consider "that's incredibly rude what you just did". Not all use is rude, but start paying attention to it.
A concrete example from this morning: Calling someone with a somewhat odd communication style "AI". That should be a thing that is kind of a grave accusation to make, and should be treated as incredibly rude if it's not coming with the evidence that sort of gravity demands.
Another one is prompting LLMs for others, that I've mentioned before.
Another is citing the LLM as an authority. "Claude says..." as a way to win an argument on authoritative rather than factual grounds.
You CAN get good information out of an LLM. But it requires the epistemic humility to do, and if you're not bringing that, it's pretty damn rude. "I believe because Claude says..." is not terrible. At least then we're talking about your belief and not Claude as authority.
Adding a bot to a channel without a chance for the people in it to push back is incredibly rude.
(It's not lost on me that a lot of things that are normal in business to inflict unilaterally on teams are things I consider extremely rude.)