Could but won’t. Your argument is the same as always. Is it a good idea? Yes. Would it help us affect change? Yes. Will people do it? No.

Everyone is good at either not caring or accepting an excuse they can live with so they don’t have to make a sacrifice. They would follow the majority if the majority actually did something but that is very likely impossible. Any movement to boycott AI games would have to compete with literally billions of dollars invested in marketing, advertising and social engineering that coerce us to buy in. At some point you just have to decide how you will delay with the reality that the majority really isn’t an ally in waiting, its your biggest opposition, content to do whatever is easiest for themselves, even if you can see clearly how unwise it is.

Much more significant ethical and moral issues have arisen that have also been crushed by the selfishness of the herd. If you boycott, you cut yourself off, diverging from the majority culture, in which most of our collective resources are invested. The majority is what makes being a minority, of any kind, a risk because it moves us in a direction with little regard for who it leaves behind or why.

History suggests so. The community always caves.

Just wait it out you fucking assholes. You’re all gonna use AI, we’re gonna get in a huff, you won’t stop, we’ll eventually tired ourselves out and then buy your stupid AI games. It’s the same song and dance everytime corporate America does something horrible that makes them more money.

As usual, people choose easy answers to accurate ones. Good feeling lies are also preferred over bad feeling truths.