Uhhh excuse me these are not academics these are brain chads
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
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Hugh Possingham, a mathematician and conservation scientist at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, is among the researchers who are not using AI. He has made a conscious effort to avoid any sort of genAI — instead pledging on LinkedIn to rely on “natural stupidity”.
Lol
yeah, I'd imagine there are people from all walks of life that are against genAI
Presumably the larger difficulty would be finding people who are pro genAI
I got plenty of gen AI advocates at work.
millions of people use them everyday
Ok, millions of people use heroine every day
Okay but fortune 500 CEOs aren't exactly telling all their employees they need to start using heroin or they'll be left in the dust when the next industrial revolution happens though.
Of course not, silly. Heroine sells itself.
and billions don’t