Author: Foundation

It’s really hard opening emails, social media, or really anything today without being inundated with AI. AI, is, of course, a short-hand acronym for Large Language Models (LLM). Despite the widespread knowledge of the impact on everything from media to the human brain, many people are still blissfully unaware of a lot of things happening in the AI sphere and don’t know how detrimental this tech, in its current form, actually is.

It’s hard to imagine that just a few years ago this technology was in limited use; we had seen drips and drabs of what would eventually come to be full-fledged LLMs like Gemini or ChatGPT in forms like Google Lab’s Between the Lines or even MidJourney. These tools were either not open for public use or had specific use cases, rather than this all-out AI integration we’ve seen today. As one who never shies from at least trying out a new technology, I tested DALL-E early on to see how well it could generate things like my artwork from my alternative text (essentially, testing my alternative text), as well as the reverse, how well it could generate alt text from an image, and at the time, the results were disastrous and laughable at best.

Nowadays, the technology itself is improving. When once we could immediately tell when AI was used in the generation of an image by the amount of fingers and teeth a human being would have in it, changes to algorithms have made a lot of AI art and writing nearly indistinguishable from an amateur artist or a clumsy writer. Many of us can still tell, however, but I don’t imagine that will last for long.

For many of you I am telling you things you already know, but this post is for the people who don’t know, who have somehow still skirted past all of the red flags about AI and its usage, and the way the technology is being force-fed to us en masse. So, let’s get into it, and I’ll link as much as I can as sources so you can see exactly what I mean. Here’s why, long form, you should think twice about utilizing AI: