1509 || The Downsides to ChatGPT + AI

Here are some reasons we should be cautious about normalizing AI + ChatGPT before establishing regulations: 

It’s unreliable. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11729512/#:~:text=This%20study%20indicates%20that%20ChatGPT,back%20to%20an%20existing%20publication. AND https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07930-

It’s a plagiarism machine. https://youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?si=OjKaOsE7GWKfm15p&t=868

Environmental racism, increasing consumer's energy bill.

Terrorism: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/08/terrorist-groups-artificial-intelligence

Training these models is deeply unethical.

Exacerbates mental health issues.

Bad for User’s Brains: https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/

Stealing Good Jobs.

Biased.

Privacy Violation.

Deepfakes + Harmful Misinformation: perpetuates extremism

Affects Societal Trust + Relationships.

Worst Corporations Backing AI

Moral Questions of Control + Freedom

As historian Yuval Noah Harari has written, to “never summon a power you cannot control”

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