You missed reason 0:

0. It is the default. Almost all computers today come with Windows. If someone clearly unknowledgeavle were to ask the salespeople in any PC store, they’d say some variation of “just use Windows”.

Microsoft managed to make sure “a PC” almost exclusively means “A computer [with Windows]”.

So odday, then?

Procrastinative Mindset.

In my opinion, AI just feels like the logical next step for capitalist exploitation and destruction of culture.

I don’t think AI is inherently bad. What’s bad is how we (or well, the corpos) use it. SEO, vibe coding, making slop, you name it.

About training material being stealing: hard agree here. Our copyright laws are broken, but they are right about AI - training is strong in a retrieval system, which is infingement. Shame they aren’t enforced at all.

What fascinates me is the similarity between AI and photography. That is, both are revolutionary tools in the visual medium. Imagine this thread being an opinion column in an 1800s newspaper, and replace all instances of ‘AI’ with ‘photography’. The arguments all stand, but our perspective to them may change.

Today “This extension is no longer supported” doesn’t mean there’s something seriously wrong with it, it means “Google doesn’t support the fact you want to use it”.

They’re right. They are the ‘Right’, after all.

The conspiracy is called ‘rising levels of decency’.

More like a disease than a conspiracy, really.

And unlike actual diseases, I assume they’re well-vaccinated against this one.

The Curse of No Cancer