GazPretty much every industry has adopted the use of AI.
Even if that were true, we're not in an "industry" right now. It's a forum for a competitive niche for an old game and we can police content shared here. We don't have to adopt, encourage or platform this shit here. If someone's paid to shill it, they're welcome to go to Hacker News.
GazWe can talk about philosophical or psychological aspects all day long but it won't change the general publics sentiment towards AI.
I do believe we should, because this place isn't a forum for the general public. I believe raising awareness of the socioeconomic and cultural impacts of this technology is more than welcome. AI-boosters conveniently leave out or brush aside conversations regarding the impact and focus on the shiny new tools all the time, and I'm kind of tired of it, when we don't consider the theft that led to it, invasive datacenters disrupting communities, deskilling and psychosis induced by LLMs and GenAI or torrents of slop everywhere an upload form exists.
GazThis is just cars replacing horses all over again. If your breadwinning is affected by AI you better learn to work with it, it's only gonna get worse. Closing your eyes and singing to yourself won't change the fact that this bullshit is here to stay.
"Learn to work with it" as in become an auditor for a non-deterministic, median, stolen answer generator. Got it. Thing is, most people come here after work and they probably don't want to expose themselves to any more bullshit forced on them. It's already hard enough to filter it out from algorithimically-powered feeds (Hacker News is fucking destroyed, 80% of the frontpage is AI, every single day), but this isn't one of them.
Cars had fairly obvious benefits to using a real animal for transportation and have proven themselves practical and of great utility, even to your average Joe. I do not see the same thing being the case with AI, even if you claim that the whole industry is using it (though not everyone being forced to use it, is that impressed by it). I'm not sure how any of this is worth trillions of dollars or how we should ignore the absurd scale of theft that led to it.
Most people, from what I observe in my circles, use it as a substitute for a search engine. Think about it. Trillions of dollars to unfuck Google and bring it back into how it was in 2014. Not to mention how this technology is blatantly being shoved down our throats (Microslop renaming their Office suite to Copilot App, shoving it into notepad and everywhere else; Gemini being enabled by default in GMail and it summarizing websites instead of directing you to them). Additionally, despite what technofascists claim, AI isn't even good enough for people not to notice, when it's being used to write posts or comments for you.
Lastly, in #5 you mentioned how the best course of action is to ignore it (same for MightyMe in #13), but it's very hard to ignore this issue, when computing as a whole is at the verge of becoming unaffordable, in no small part thanks to the astroturfed AI hype campaigns and vendors realizing how much more money they can make by only selling to enterprises and megacorps that care not for laws or regulations (or lobby against them). GPUs still haven't recovered from scalpers, crypto and nft scams either. It's also hard to ignore how much slop is being pushed everywhere, and even laypeople with no background in SWE can tell Windows and other software is turning to shit.
I also never argued that it's not here to stay. I know the proverbial genie's out of the bottle, but this particular space isn't a corporate workplace, where I am forced to use agentic workflows or become a middle manager of a cyber slave that vacuumed up the entire internet, else I get fired. It's a forum for discussing competitive TF2 and projects related to it. We have control over what we want to promote and encourage on the forum and I'd argue it shouldn't be AI generated projects devoid of any real showmanship and respect for the game, the competitive scene or the code their generated output is based on, let alone equating it to traditionally crafted projects from an era before LLMs were at anyone's reach. The apparent value of effort and artisan craftsmanship is more relevant than ever in the era dominated by slop.
Sure, if you're a competent dev and you've made this stuff before, I don't care, but if 99.9% of the code is straight up from Claude and your sole input is "directing it" I hold issue with it. I don't believe "authors" of these projects have the necessary insight to evaluate and audit the code that AI is throwing up at them and I refuse to believe they manually and carefully review everything (especially when they themselves admit they have no technical background or prior experience), when volume of code and commits per day is higher than projects with 200+ active collaborators.