To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks
The author expresses a strong anti-AI stance, feeling isolated for their beliefs. They highlight the negative impacts of AI on society, including environmental concerns and the erosion of cognitive skills. The author is frustrated with the normalization of AI usage among peers and the lack of awareness regarding its harms.
- ▪The author believes that no positive outcome can justify the harms caused by AI.
- ▪They feel like an outcast for their moral stance against AI technology.
- ▪The author is particularly disturbed by friends and communities that promote AI usage without understanding its implications.
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| Original publisher | Martyn's random musings |
| Canonical URL | https://musings.martyn.berlin/to-have-a-moral-stance-on-ai-is-to-be-an-outcast-and-it-sucks |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 16:04:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T16:09:38.763Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T16:09:38.763Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks.April 28, 2026I know the technology, I understand what it's doing and I know the impact, so I am vehemently anti-AI. I do not believe any positive outcome is possible with this form of AI that is worth the harms that it has already done and is continuing to do. Nor do I believe that “just one more model bro” will make something that is “intelligent”. Of course “AI” is a marketing term so it doesn't mean anything, neither does GenAI or the latest buzzword “Agentic”. This makes me an outcast. In tech, and out of it. A post was sent to me that really resonated.
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