FaceDeer

I have presupposed nothing.

You wrote:

The lung capacity of smokers is deficient, yes? Is the mere fact offensive? Should we just not talk about how someone struggling to breathe as they walk up stairs is the direct result of their smoking?

By using this analogy for the "brain rot" you claim comes from AI use, you are presupposing that it actually happens. You're putting as much confidence in that as there is in the well-established but completely unrelated effect of smoking on lung capacity.

Ultimately, what this whole exchange boils down to:

OP: How do I tell people I don't use AI without insulting them?

You: Tell them I think they're stupid.

How useful.

It's not a random fallacy, it's the one you're engaging in. Look it up. Your analogy presupposes an answer to the question that is actually at hand. It's the classic "have you stopped beating your wife" situation.

This is literally begging the question.

What would the inoffensive way of phrasing it be?

...and then you proceed to spend the next two paragraphs continuing to rant about how mentally deficient you think AI users are.

Not that, for starters.

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

More likely they feel insulted by people saying how "brain-rotted" they are.

This is the first time I've encountered the term and I understood it immediately.

I haven't tested it, but I saw an article a little while back that you can add "don't use emdashes" to ChatGPT's custom instructions and it'll leave them out from the beginning.

It's kind of ridiculous that a perfectly ordinary punctuation mark has been given such stigma, but whatever, it's an easy fix.

The "environmental destruction" angle is likely to cause trouble because it's objectively debatable, and often presented in overblown or deceptive ways.

Except that is also a subjective and emotionally-charged argument.

and also alarming enough for them to take action.

Is this really an intent to explain in good faith? Sounds like you're trying to manipulate their opinion and actions rather than simply explaining yourself.

If someone was to tell me that they simply don't want to use generative AI, that they prefer to do writing or drawing by hand and don't want suggestions about how to use various AI tools for it, then I just shrug and say "okay, suit yourself."

It's so that the readers can tell who's being talked about at a glance, not weird at all.

I have to admit, as an Albertan, to the tiniest bit of relief to finally see a different province's name in a headline like this.

Also dread that it's spreading, though.