Having defended em dashes from the AI-shame brigade, you know where I stand on stigma as a strategy. Anil Dash makes the bigger version of the point: shame doesn't stop technology where its owners have accounted for it. What changes people is a better offer. Anil points to Zohran Mamdani winning over Trump voters in the Bronx by listening and offering alternatives. In other words, shame doesn’t work.
It may make creative communities feel good to shame people about using AI (and maybe that has some purposes for social cohesion amongst those groups), but it rarely stops people from using the platforms at all — it just makes them quieter about it.
Why shaming people about AI slop isn't enough to stop Big AI | Anil Dash