That is a behemoth of a homelab you have set up there. My jaw would’ve dropped out if it could.

And I still refuse to use the ‘Complete and Instant Annihilation of the Final Boss’ potion since I may need it in the future.

Thanks for your response. I already have Joplin synced with my server as a solution for my documentation. However I meant to ask how you structure your documentation, know what and how to mention, and organise it for future reference.

You do have a point. I think I may be overthinking this after all. I’ll just try to talk with them about this upfront.

This is a brilliant idea! I was wondering whether talking subjectively would be detrimental to my point, but having it explained this way is so much better. I think the key point here is to not berate the other person for using AI in between this explanation.

The post is aimed at me facing situations where I state among people I know that I don’t use AI, followed by them asking why not. Instead of driving them out by stating “Just because” or get into jargons that are completely unbeknownst to them, I wish to properly inform them why I have made this decision and why they should too.

I am also able to identify people to whom there’s no point discussing this. I’m not asking to convince them too.

They’ve lost so much of their brains to AI, that even valid criticism of AI feel like personal insults to them.

That’s the issue. I do wish to warn me or even just inform them of what using AI recklessly could lead to.

My question was genuine. I haven’t been an avid user of generative AI when it was first released and decided against using it at all lately. I tried to use it in niche projects and was completely unreliable. Its tone of speech is bland and the way it acts as a friend feels disturbing to me. Plus the environmental destruction it is causing on such a large scale is honestly depressing to me.

All that being said, it is not easy for me to communicate these points clearly to someone the way I have experienced it. It’s like the case for informing people about privacy; casual users aren’t inherently aware of the consequences of using this tool and consider it a godsend. It will be difficult for them to convince that the tool they cherish to use so much is not that great after all, thus I am asking here what the beat approach should be.