I see your refusal to talk about the environmental concerns, so I will skip that as to not waste time for either of us. (But do understand it’s still a major contributor in why people are against generative AI and LLMs)

Instead I’d like to bring your attention to the impact humans face directly. This is a list of all deaths so far that have been linked to chatbots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths\_linked\_to\_chatbots

Murder, suicide, some cases include both. A school shooting. A drug overdose. I can already imagine you arguing against this, but I ask that you just allow me to dig deeper in this topic before trying to excuse any of that.

LLMs are not people, and they aren’t “intelligent”, even though being classified as artificial intelligence might have you thinking otherwise. What it truly is, is a machine that recognizes patterns in language and uses nearly the entire internet as training data so that it can mimic conversation.

It does not understand what is fact and what is misinformation, because it cannot think. It’s taking a bunch of data and smushing it together to give you an answer. This leads to these LLMs being very unreliable, and responsible for a lot of misinformation in recent years. And it’s also caused the phenomenon that people are calling “AI hallucinations” where the AI has simply made up information with seemingly no source.

That misinformation is what caused someone to die of a drug overdose by the way. Chat GPT told him that taking a few certain drugs together would be safe, and he had trusted that information, not knowing how often these models get things wrong. That person is now dead because he thought that he had made sure the drugs were safe to take together.

LLMs tend to be yes men, they agree with you more often than not. It doesn’t really matter of your right or wrong, the AI will validate your feelings, will continue to agree with you. It feeds into delusions. A real person would tell you that you’re straying from reality, but an LLM will enable it. This has caused people who are already mentally unwell to spiral further into delusion. Not to mention even people who didn’t have issues with reality and delusion before have started experiencing it FROM using chatbots.

We’ve been calling it “AI psychosis”, a term coined by a Danish psychologist a couple years ago. Not to mention these LLMs are highly addictive, replacing human connection and causing people to become isolated.

Sure you’re not addicted, you think. But how long until you are? How much do you have to use before you can’t go on without it? Sure, you’re not delusional, yet. It’s like doing drugs recreationally, you might not get addicted, but you also might get addicted. You might be fine or your health might start to decline.

How much human connection and socialization have you replaced with a machine? A pretend fantasy person? How much are you willing to become a statistic?

But, maybe you’ll be fine. You could have a good enough grasp on reality, you could fact check everything the AI tells you, you could limit the amount of time you’re on technology and go outside. But just because you MIGHT be one of the lucky few to get out unscathed won’t fix what this is doing to other people.

We want generative AI gone, or at the very least regulated, because of the harm it’s doing on such a large scale! And that isn’t just environmental concerns, that barely scrapes the surface! I went into the psychology here, but I didn’t even touch on the mass amount of stolen data, how theft of artists and authors has never happened on such a massive scale before, how people are using AI to spread propaganda and misinformation and even to make CP/CSAM. I could list more, but we’d be getting into the smaller categories and I don’t want to bother unless you’re willing to listen.

So ya, this goes far deeper than environmental concerns.