"I have not used ChatGPT, because as of yet, no one has held a shotgun to my head and made me do it." — Vince Gilligan (WATCH: Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan really hates AI, Simone De Rochefort, Polygon, Nov 7, 2025)
Kids are taught to look things up, right? That basic recommendation assumed that available sources would contain facts. But now, there are LLMs, which are "nonsense machines." So looking things up is bad advice, or at least incomplete advice, given the widespread availability of a tool that lies to you. Otherwise kids are going to use the nonsense lying tool and believe they've learned something from it.
"They 'looked it up'! they got it from somewhere! ... it's something they think they LEARNED"
Well this is grim
— Pavel (@spavel.bsky.social) July 6, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Schools were unprepared for this:
"at least in the early days, a total crapshoot: Some states claimed that they had not thought about ChatGPT at all, while other state departments of education brought in consulting firms to give trainings to teachers and principals about how to use ChatGPT in the classroom. Some of the trainings were given by explicitly pro-AI organizations and authors, and organizations backed by tech companies. The documents, taken in their totality, show that American public schools were wildly unprepared for students’ widespread adoption of ChatGPT, which has since become one of the biggest struggles in American education."
— American Schools Were Deeply Unprepared for ChatGPT, Public Records Show, Jason Koebler, 404 Media, May 15, 2025
"Everyone participating in generative AI is polluting the data supply for everyone." AI is already eating itself: www.theregister.com/2025/06/15/a...
— Doc Sarah Lonsdale (@sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social) June 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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By the way, the president uses "AI" as a deflection to indicate something is false.
"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."
— Justin Hendrix (@justinhendrix.bsky.social) October 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Look what a massive amount of the U.S. stock market is invested in "AI" companies.
Generative AI is a societal disaster: Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society. Don't buy the AI hype. by Paris Marx, Disconnect, October 24, 2025
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
— Matthew Noe (@noethematt.bsky.social) October 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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In 2022
The UK made it illegal to hire someone to write an essay for you. Yet there's nothing that can be done about machines writing the essay for you?
In 2025
Sam Altman of course says you need ChatGPT to know how to raise a baby.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
— More Perfect Union (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Guillermo del Toro gets it. variety.com/2026/film/ne...
— Trey Lawson (@tlawson.bsky.social) January 4, 2026 at 10:55 PM
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Happy to be included in this article with MIT Technology Review about the QuitGPT campaign. www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/10/1...
— Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) (@fisherdanar.bsky.social) February 11, 2026 at 6:58 AM
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Today's technology is designed to divorce us from ourselves.
"...the rapid promotion and acceptance of AI into our daily lives helps to ease us into this weird dysmorphic fascism we have moved into." Their goals are to "get rid of the pesky people who question things, keep tabs on all of us to keep us 'safe,' help distort reality so we are too tired to question everything, keep us disconnected from other humans, keep us 'efficient' (because white supremacy likes efficiency more than quality), get you to question everything and be too scared to trust your instincts—oh, and help destroy the planet because that takes away more of us, too." So, "don’t outsource your thinking to a data packet that serves a master who doesn’t care about you and who just wants to strip your essence and use it to fuel their quest for unlimited riches." (Black Girl in Maine)
Erin Maglaque [interviewed by Chandler Fritz]: It is true that the textureless authority of AI-generated writing makes us feel as if we are in the presence of an omniscient being. But we lose something important about being human if AI becomes our primary contact with the unknown, our primary experience of the inexplicable.
And what does that misplaced reverence say about us, about our capacity to contend with real mystery? AI is predictable by its design; that is how large language models work, through probability. Premodern mysticism was not concerned with the predictable or the probable, but with the opposite: with moments of irruption, of disabling wonder. Why do we want our gods to be so bland, our oracles so anemic? Do we get the gods we deserve?
— Interview in the New York Review of Books, emailed to subscribers, March 21, 2026
Don't use AI summaries for journalism either
Even after getting caught, he still basically just shrugs it off as user error, rather than the extremely obvious outcome of using a piece of software that has zero designed tendency towards accuracy beyond the human-created (stolen) inputs it relies upon archive.ph/wip/qMFtz
— Ketan Joshi (@ketanjoshi.co) March 21, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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