"If you hate AI, why are you on X?" Debate over platform ethics reignites
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-27
An argument over platform ethics: critics say staying on X contradicts an anti-AI stance, since xAI is one of the largest AI companies by market cap and farms user data to train its models.
ChrisGPT pushes back, calling it a misuse of the 'Yet you participate in society' fallacy: unavoidably participating in a system differs from voluntarily choosing a readily substitutable platform whose owner is running the most aggressive AI and compute buildout in history — and switching to Bluesky costs you almost no features.
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