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They are, tho.
My insurance companies push me to speak to Ai before real people. Ai is used to sort and database medical records, in use in many careers to spy on employees, and lie to and manipulate younger generations into militant dumbasses. I didn't opt-in, and I can't opt-out unless I use a bullet or this cancer is abolished from the earth.
You have the ability to choose an insurance company that doesn't use those things. Hell, you even have the ability to self-insure in most states with enough collateral. Nothing is being forced on you. Hell - you EVEN have the ability to hire an in-person insurance agent -- did you know that?
Sure, it's not as cheap - but you've always been able to do this. You are not being forced like you claim, your own ignorance is what betrays you to the options you have available.
And what other people do with their ingestion of AI is their business, not yours.
Without AI, all of the things you say they are doing WITH AI were already possible. They could ALREADY spy on employees. They could ALREADY lie and manipulate people. All AI does is make it happen on a wider scale.
So instead of attacking "AI" "AI" "AI"...why not attack the things that are being done wrong, rather than the fact that it's AI?
If money is to be exchanged to excuse Ai from my annoyance , I'd expect it to me rather than from.
I have laid no welcome mat down for Ai yet it intrudes, and your suggestion is to make way and go elsewhere? Excuse me? Excuse Ai while it makes jobs disappear while trickling down zero net benefit to the working man while pushing profits up for shareholders, making the world worse for everyone involved.
Your argument is like telling someone they can just ignore an all you can eat buffet full of feces with one tray full of edible food. "Just ignore the shit and be happy, no one is forcing it on you! You're free to do as you please!"
If you continue going to the buffet with shit, that's on you. There are plenty of them without shit. You're just a vegan luddite at this point. You don't wanna eat animals, so you expect everyone around you to also not eat animals because it's against your beliefs.
Sorry. Not how the world works. AI is here to stay because it's useful to people. Whine and bitch and moan all you want, it's not going away.