I had an epiphany while walking with my daughter to the park this morning.

The number one reason why I would never resort to #AI / a #LLM to write something for me is that these models completely squash any individuality, the sum of all your life experiences and viewpoints. What makes you, *you*.

What I find so dangerous is the homogenization of thinking that they bring about. A pastiche of vanilla thoughts, cobbled together at random.

No LLM could possibly write for me... even if I used a prompt that asked it to write in my style, providing links to previous articles.

My little one is only 4 but it breaks my heart that she's growing up in a world where these tools are totally normalized. How they're upending higher education and so many aspects of life.

We didn't have a choice, the introduction of these tools arrived all of a sudden, without any guardrails in place. And now they're here.

When the time comes, we'll have this talk. I find it essential.

/end of rant - sigh times a million

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