

My current list of reasons why you shouldn’t use generative AI/LLMs
A) because of the environmental impacts and massive amount of water used to cool data centers https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117
B) because of the negative impacts on the health and lives of people living near data centers https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv448o
C) because they’re plagiarism machines that are incapable of creating anything new and are often wrong https://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/does-ai-limit-our-creativity/ https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2024/06/20/why-ai-has-a-plagiarism-problem/
D) because using them negatively affects artists and creatives and their ability to maintain their livelihoods https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374523000316 https://www.insideradio.com/free/media-industry-continues-reshaping-workforce-in-2025-amid-digital-shift/article_403564f7-08ce-45a1-9366-a47923cd2c09.html
E) because people who use AI show significant cognitive impairments compared to people who don’t https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/
F) because using them might break your brain and drive you to psychosis https://theweek.com/tech/spiralism-ai-religion-cult-chatbot https://mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e85799 https://youtu.be/VRjgNgJms3Q
G) because Zelda Williams asked you not to https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0r0erqk18jo https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-07/zelda-williams-calls-out-ai-video-of-late-father-robin-williams/105863964
H) because OpenAI is helping Trump bomb schools in Iran https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2026/03/06/openai-pentagon-tech-surveillance-us-citizens/88983682007/
I) because RAM costs have skyrocketed because OpenAI has used money it doesn’t have to purchase RAM from Nvidia that currently doesn’t exist to stock data centers that also don’t currently exist, inconveniencing everyone for what amounts to speculative construction https://www.theverge.com/news/839353/pc-ram-shortage-pricing-spike-news
J) because Sam Altman says that his endgame is to rent knowledge back to you at a cost https://gizmodo.com/sam-altman-says-intelligence-will-be-a-utility-and-hes-just-the-man-to-collect-the-bills-2000732953
K) because some AI bro is going to totally ignore all of this and ask an LLM to write a rebuttal rather than read any of it.

A gish gallop is a rhetorical strategy, this is a list on a website. I’m sorry you failed high school debate or whatever.
A) Nope, it’s accurate. I’ll provide some more sources for you to not read.
https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about https://www.snhu.edu/about-us/newsroom/stem/ai-environmental-impact https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/11/roadmap-shows-environmental-impact-ai-data-center-boom
B) Yes, it is a regulation failure. We should be regulating these data centers out of existence in order to protect people from the noise and pollution.
C) LLMs can’t “make discoveries.” I think you’re trying to conflate humans and LLMs here, but your point is so muddled that I’m not sure what you’re actually trying to say. Humans are able to iterate on information and build on pre-existing foundations, LLMs produce a reasonably coherent block of text based on statistical averages of previous information. If you’re going to try to conflate the two, you’ve got to be ready for people to laugh in your face.
D) Ah yes, a highly skilled artist or craftsman getting replaced with a slop machine because it’s cheaper despite having a visible sheen of cheapness to it directly reflects on the value of the artist or craftsman, you are very intelligent
E) Nope, you’re wrong. Long term use of LLMs does not make people smarter and does impair their cognitive abilities. I’ll provide some more sources for you to not read.
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/neuroscience/generative-ai-the-risk-of-cognitive-atrophy/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38996021/ https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1259845/full
F) Oh, you’re just an asshole, got it. I can stop arguing with you from here because you don’t care about people, you’re just reflexively defending LLMs for some reason. “The weak minded.” Fucking eugenicist Bond villain type shit.
Try realigning your moral compass toward compassion toward people and maybe you won’t reflexively make a jackass out of yourself on the internet next time.