I disagree. Not using ChatGPT can be the start of a coalition of people that do not use it. I already have two principles: (1) to not use generative AI, LLMs and other AI tooks, and (2) to give preference to people and businesses who do the same. It's simple. If I find that websites use ChatGPT to help generate their content, I stop visiting and supporting them. If I find businesses using AI, I stop supporting them. I already got one other self-sustaining business to at least pubicly declare not to use generative AI and in my personal business, I do so as well.

If such a coalition grows large enough, then AI tools can be extinguished or at least made sufficiently prohibitively expensive so that they are strangled.

> If such a coalition grows large enough

It won't. People have never defeated a useful new technology that destroys jobs. People widely like using these tools. You'd need to ban their use worldwide. If the US bans AI, China and other countries will become dominant in AI. Assuming AI continues to improve, there's an extreme advantage for any country that has it.