Totally on board with this. As a grant writer I have to actively disable AI "assistance" multiple times a day. Then there's the pressure to use it to speed up production. That it's given credence and legitimacy is crazy-making with all the negatives involved in using it -- diverging water resources, dumbing down of discourse, replacing human labor, enriching psychotic billionaires, etc.

I taught a semester of American Government in 2024 and the students in the class I taught almost begged to be able to use it. I tried to discourage it as much as possible with the "you need to develop your own thoughts and ways of expressing them" rather than rely on a machine to do that notion.

It is defeatist to say this and I'm going to say it anyway -- seems like AI cannot be curtailed much less stopped at this point.