alt Hacker News> I really find this whole "Responding is legitimizing, and legitimizing in all forms is bad" to be totally wrong headed.
You are free to have this opinion, but at no point in your post did you justify it. It's not related to what you wrote above. It's conclusory. statement.
Cussing an AI out isn't the same thing as not responding. It is, to the contrary, definitionally a response.
I think I did justify it but I'll try to be clearer. When you refuse to engage you will fail to convince - "fuck off" is not argumentative or rhetorically persuasive. The other post, which engages, was both argumentative and rhetorically persuasive. I think someone who believes that AI is good, or who had some specific intent, might actually take something away from that that the author intended to convey. I think that's good.
I consider being persuasive to be a good thing, and indeed I consider it to far outweigh issues of "legitimizing", which feels vague and unclear in its goals. For example, presumably the person who is using AI already feels that it is legitimate, so I don't really see how "legitimizing" is the issue to focus on.
I think I had expressed that, but hopefully that's clear now.
> Cussing an AI out isn't the same thing as not responding. It is, to the contrary, definitionally a response.
The parent poster is the one who said that a response was legitimizing. Saying "both are a response" only means that "fuck off, clanker" is guilty of legitimizing, which doesn't really change anything for me but obviously makes the parent poster's point weaker.