I need a term for the GenAI equivalent of being vegetarian. 30 years ago, I came to understand how animal suffering and profit were tightly correlated. Profit went up the more suffering was inflicted on animals. It was optional, not necessary, but it was profitable. I made the decision to become vegetarian because there weren't other realistic choices. Today there are many ethically better options than were available to me in the 1990s, I'm still vegetarian because it's still a good thing to do and I enjoy it.

AI has now struck me as very, very similar: Suffering directly correlated to profit. Whether it's climate change, unemployment, disenfranchisement, or just the general attack on creativity, expertise, and accountability, I can't abide the current approaches to generative AI. I'm gonna uninstall it from my personal stuff and do what I can to not use it/be ethical with it at work.

And while "Luddite" might seem like a reasonable term, it's a very misunderstood term and would likely prompt perjorative connotations.

There is a lot of machine learning technolgoy that is very good, ethical, and not climate destroying. Many predictive AI systems (OCR, voice recognition, network IDS and IPS, language translation, etc.) are really effective and have really good cost/benefit ratios. I have no opposition to these ML systems because they don't have the properties I am uncomfortable with.