Fuck AI

A couple of reasons, besides the obvious:

• It promotes brainrot and discourages us from being creative and doing real research ourselves. It may take longer but manual development is more valuable and unique.

• It warps our perception of reality. With the way LLMs word their answers, they seem really convincing. Later you might realise it was actually wrong or only partially correct. This is problematic when users search for mental health advice, career planning, legal advice, etc.

• Many, including the American government, use AI-generated slop to spread propaganda and misinformation more effectively than ever. It's scary just thinking about how many people can't recognise the difference between AI and real, and those are usually the ones voting against the collective good of society.

• It's just not worth it. It makes mistakes, it hallucinates, it forgets... With the time we spend trying to get the AI model to generate what we need in attempt to skip the hard work or the knowledgeable, we might probably be able to do a proper piece of work if we put in the effort. When ChatGPT first came out, I admittedly used it a lot for my assignments, and I would say it was more hindering than useful. At the end of the day, I didn't learn anything and I wasn't satisfied with the work. "If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself."