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Users shun AI assistance, preferring human intellect and ethical tools

The author expresses a strong preference for avoiding AI-powered features in applications, including Google's AI overviews and tools like Grammarly. They believe in relying on their own reading, writing, and thinking abilities, questioning if this independent approach is becoming rare. The author also highlights concerns about AI tools like Grammarly appropriating author names without consent for features like 'Expert Review'. AI

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IMPACT Suggests a segment of users actively avoids AI features, potentially impacting adoption and design choices for AI-assisted applications.

RANK_REASON The cluster consists of opinion pieces from a single user expressing personal views on AI tools.

Read on Mastodon — fosstodon.org →

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    In apps I use that offer # AI "assistance", I turn it off to the degree that the settings allow. I never look at Google's AI "overview" (and prefer searching wi

    In apps I use that offer # AI "assistance", I turn it off to the degree that the settings allow. I never look at Google's AI "overview" (and prefer searching with DuckDuckGo anyway). I'm human, I learned how to read, write, and think for myself. I hope I'm not a dying breed.

  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 · [email protected] ·

    I was chatting with some folks about # AI bots yesterday and said that I avoid using them. One said "Not even Grammarly?" I said no, and informed them of their

    I was chatting with some folks about # AI bots yesterday and said that I avoid using them. One said "Not even Grammarly?" I said no, and informed them of their (now-discontinued) "Expert Review" that appropriated the names of authors without consent. https://www. wired.com/story/…