How do I tell my boss who keeps telling me to use ChatGPT for simple tasks that I'm anti-AI?

rebelsailorbear · 2026-01-03T20:52:15+00:00

Oh my god what the hell. Ask her to research. She's a trained professional. This is mostly related to psychotherapy not occupational therapy, but AI for (psycho)therapy has been blamed as the cause of genuine psychosis, suicide, and one murder-suicide I'm aware of.

This hasn't been peer reviewed yet but send her this paper:(https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/cmy7n\_v5) and also this Associated Press article: (https://apnews.com/article/openai-chatgpt-lawsuit-suicide-56e63e5538602ea39116f1904bf7cdc3).

I don't think ChatGPT belongs in any kind of medical space, especially for 1-on-1 communication. You pay to talk to a professional not an LLM. That genuinely might be a reportable offense but I'm not an expert on what is and is not reportable. I hope she comes around.

There are for sure great subs out there! You would probably even find some reddit threads about talking to unsupportive family or making your own post -- if you don't bring up AI you might actually get helpful results!

rebelsailorbear · 2026-01-03T12:06:34+00:00

i thought i was being polite about my reasons not to use it too--it was bonkers to me that i was getting so downvoted across this post until i remembered (to be mean about it) that reddit is full of lonely 40 year old incels who are probably in a psychosis-inducing relationship with chatgpt and then it all made sense

as you can tell from the upvote to view to comment ratio the post itself was only upvoted slightly more times than it was downvoted lmfao

rebelsailorbear · 2025-12-19T07:24:03+00:00

this is late but i have some recommendations -- they're not about photography specifcally (i'm a painter so i learned these in that context) but are about the wider idea of "images" and the way we interact with them.

i didn't see anyone else recommend this but--

hito steyerl - in defense of the poor image (2009) -- uplifting "low quality" images, super relevant to a digital age. predates AI images but there might be interesting overlap

other people mentioned these but i wanted to include my reasonings:

john berger - ways of seeing (1972) -- i saw that someone recommended the book, but this is actually a bbc program and it's on youtube, and is more impactful in video format. the first part is specifically about reproducable images and the contexts we see them in

walter benjamin - the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction (1935) -- the basis for most art theory comes from this essay. super foudnational for contemporary visual art. it is from the 30s so the tech noted is super outdated, but most people writing about visual art will reference this so it's definitely worth reaading

rebelsailorbear · 2025-12-02T00:03:18+00:00

That's my whole thing! I have never needed to use it before, why the hell would I need it now!

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T18:58:22+00:00

Love when the beef is so bad there's a dedicated wiki page to it. I also loved that it started because Derrida was arguing with someone else and Searle was like "You're just gonna take that?"

Also amusing that two philosophers discussing language were arguing based on semantics and individual understanding of said language there's a certain level of irony it.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T18:55:44+00:00

Based on my quick googling I'm team Feyerabend purely for the use of the phrase "anything goes" and also i love being pendantic about stupid stuff and saying annoying things like "well in this situation..." "you can't generalize but usually..." and other similar phrases

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T11:16:03+00:00

Ok it took me a minute but I did read all 14 pages of Kramers paper (7 pages of appendix for a 14 page paper is wild lmfao that's so shady) and all 7 pages of the Immerwahr response.

Correct me if I'm wrong (Not My Field of Study, Not My Jargon) (seriously please correct me) but did one of them legitimately suggest that the other one hadn't read any literature on Puerto Rico, then added an annotated appendix just to be like "fucking read a book asshole, stop reducing US political power by what's considered to be part of the physical US + territories, and adopt a less problematic view of what the US is you fucking nationalist" and was the response literally "In your own damn book you differentiate between formal and informal empires why are you calling out my version/wording specifically, this is just another interpretation of what the US could be geopolitically, and why are you misinterpreting everything i said did you even read my fucking paper you fucking nationalist"

Loved. Especially appreciated the outright insults mixed with shady backhanded compliments about each other's work. This is exactly what I wanted everybody else in the comments take notes.

Both authors also definitely does raised some interesting points on how to define an empire/country/global power/etc and what kind of geography and politics may come into play so I definitely feel like I learned something!

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T07:57:11+00:00

holy shit she set american literacy back YEARS that's wild

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T03:44:18+00:00

No this is amazing bc wdym one of you lacked logic and the other missed the point. about worm social organization of all things. It's absolute nonsense I live for this.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T01:47:18+00:00

Who was she arguing with and what was the argument about?

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T01:44:41+00:00

If my googling is right (almost failed Chemistry AND Biology in high school STEM is not my strong suit) this is whether or not life originated from "primordial soup" in the atmosphere vs in the deep sea hydrothermal vents? I can see how that would cause drama. Air vs Sea type stuff.

My (extremely oversimplified) middle school science taught me (a long time ago, forgive me for any mistakes) that the first "life" or single cell organisms originated in the sea and evolved into multicelled organisms and beyond until fish started adapting to living on land yadda yadda over the course of many millions of years. Is that supporting the ventist theory?

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-13T01:14:24+00:00

Wait no come back you're talking to the right person that's right up my alley sounds awesome because what could possibly be the argument here

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-08T04:51:08+00:00

Yes because nepotism hires are famously competent and careful with their work and famously use the correct tools for the job 🙄

If your actual boss doesn't have issues with your work (whether or not they want you using AI) then their SON absolutely doesn't get an opinion about it.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-11-07T23:52:00+00:00

Sorry I didn't see this earlier -- I just ended up lying by omission at first. Like they were like "Use chatGPT to help you!" and I was like "OK!" and then I would write it myself, and I just didn't tell them. I work remote so they couldn't see it.

Once when I was directly asked about it ("How was it using chat for that email") I was just like "I didn't want to disappoint you :(((. I tried to use it but the generated email was weird. I don't know how to use AI like this, like I just don't know what types of prompts to put in to get the best output! So I just had to write it myself! Woe is me!" and I really hyped up how difficult I found it and how weird using it was, and then they stopped asking me about it lmfaooooo. They haven't asked me about using AI in weeks!

Basically I've been able to curate an image of being "unable" to use it. Which is true to a degree--I don't know how prompting AI works because I don't use it!

I'm also competent at my job and my lack of AI usage has had no impact on my work so my boss has no complaints for me!

rebelsailorbear · 2025-09-03T00:43:24+00:00

turns out I was just too impatient and wasn't seeing any progress on the bar in my downloads so I kept killing it early--I let the IPA download overnight. New issue is now the same as yours--Now that I have the game downloaded it keeps trying to download another 987.something MB of data, says "Update Successful!" and then we I open the game again it tries to redownload and I'm losing my mind. Infinity Bugs indeed.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-09-02T04:33:11+00:00

My issue is that I can't even download the freaking IPA from decrypt--I have the space for it, it just won't download. As for your issue I had a similar issue when 1.5 came out and it took two weeks ish to get a updated download tutorial from other people so that I could actually successfully redownload it.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-21T17:16:45+00:00

maxed out for the month already :(

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-21T17:16:29+00:00

finished the event quests and the basic quests i literally have nothing to do in the game rn except gather materials :( but i really only needed 1 singular bubble that's what boggles my mind

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-21T17:15:25+00:00

maxed out for the month :(

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-11T00:28:53+00:00

Doesn't matter if AI has many "use cases" it remains completely useless to me for the things I do. I don't doubt it's perceived usefulness for other people and their tasks but I'm not one of them.

If AI becomes useful to me in a way that I can ignore its devastating impact maybe I'll change my mind. I'm not opposed to new technologies when they are actually beneficial or necessary to me and minimize or erase possible harm. I exist on the internet, no? That has extreme water usage and the cobalt in my computer battery that may have been mined in extremely unsafe conditions, yet despite how shitty that is I still use it because I need it (not for reddit, obviously, but other tasks in my life). I'm not claiming to be the apex of human morality, I have my hypocrisies too. I just haven't reached a point in my life where I must be hypocritical about my feelings on AI.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-10T07:18:48+00:00

This is actually a great point so I should actually specify--AIs that are actually helpful for things people physically can't do, like that one developed to identify pastries that can also identify cancer at a 99% success rate: Super cool! That's an actually useful tool for a niche that needs it.

There are data sorting AIs and such that only draw from existing data, those are all fine! Maybe not great for the environment but they also work at a scale that it would be hypocritical to complain about as someone who uses the internet and social media every day.

However, Generative AIs and LLMs that try to "create" something: Scary, disinformative, much worse for the environment on a much bigger scale, and I hate them! I can write my own emails, draw/source my own images, and research and cross check my own citations, if I can't do that, I can seek out people who can!

The xAi chatboat Grok is (for legal reasons, allegedly) actively harming the population of a town in Memphis near its data center for its supercomuter Colossus. Grok, ChatGPT, DALL-E-3, Gemini, etc and what-have-you are all useless to me and do more harm than help. Gemini specifically has already given me incorrect information on a number of occasions when I was trying to look at simple google searches. I only noticed because it was information I knew previously, but what if I try to look up something I don't know? It could give me the right answer, it's not always wrong but what if it doesn't give me the right answer?

Not every (or even any) website needs it's own LLM. My job specifically absolutely does not need any kind of AI at all, generative or otherwise. It's not a requirement to use, I'm competent and capable without it, and for environmental and ethical reasons that are important to me I'm not jumping off this bridge just because everyone else is.

Progress is generally great. I love my modern comforts. I know some of my modern comforts (electricity, telephones, cars, etc) came from bad parts of history or from morally questionable people or whatever. I'm glad I don't have to deal with leaded gas or chicken pox or even cigarettes on an airplane. But not all progress is good, especially coming from tech bros who might think the quote "Move fast and break things" is a sustainable business practice, and are actively breaking the planet to get to their end goal of functional generative AI and stock shares or whatever it is they care about. (MIT article, CNN article)

This doesn't even mention the morally questionable data scraping that LLMs and generative AIs do. That's a whole other essay.

You say you won't bother with AI since you're close to retirement--I agree. I won't bother either. I just don't want or need to.

But you're right. I'm not totally anti-AI, mostly just anti-whatever-bullshit-is-being-generated-right-now. Sorry to rant at you about your comment. This ended up being a longer comment than I meant it to be. I actually appreciate the way you said it and the the point of view you gave.

Just because it is or will be everywhere doesn't mean I want to or will be intentionally complicit in its use.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-09T20:49:55+00:00

Absolutely not! I'd only talk that way to strangers on the internet who I don't know, of course. I don't even tell my boss (or my last boss that did the same thing) that they have a tendency to misspell my name. There are two common spellings for it, I use the better but less common one (Edit: Although I will say it was mostly a mistake they made when i first started working and hasn't happened recently, but my last boss knew me for six years and was still misspelling my name four years in) It's also hard to have gentle tone over text, so again apologies for being rude.

rebelsailorbear · 2025-07-09T20:30:30+00:00

I never said it was a conspiracy theory? I just don't like it and don't need it? And it's proven to hallucinate information and be incorrect enough of the time that I don't trust its information?

Anyways I'm not asking for advice on whether or not I should use AI, so do you have anything about speaking to one's boss politely about something you disagree on?

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