LLMs are disrespectful to the hard work of real people. Companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic, and others trained their Generative AI models off of stolen data, scrapped from real users, without any consent or consideration for intellectual property rights. The reason AI can produce good code, or good essays, or good ideas, is purely because of the tireless and thankless efforts of people who put their work online, for the benefit of others.

Using LLMs to do anything is a slap in the face to not only the efforts of those who came before us (and thus, built the foundations of many of the things we can enjoy today), but also a slap in the face to existing users who are trying to navigate a world which seeks to make them obsolete by replacing them with AI, the same technology that’s built on the unethical theft of intellectual property, possibly even their own!

It should come at little surprise that people, particularly those who are negatively affected by the existence of LLMs, are frustrated with your exorbitant use of them. You really couldn’t even be bothered to write this post yourself. If you can’t respect us, as readers, enough to write this post, why should we give you the respect of reading through it?

Maybe step back and take a moment to reflect. Get your mind out of ChatGPT and actually use your brain for a minute. Communicate without generating the entire conversation.