Why I Still Won't Use ChatGPT

I don’t use ChatGPT or most other generative AI technologies if I can help it. That feels increasingly rare. I keep hearing that I’m wrong, including from other journalists. To the proponents, it’s clear that people who don’t want to use AI are being left behind. They often compare it to social media or the internet itself. To me, it’s clear that AI is further eroding what’s left of the traditional media industry—and that it’s accelerating the pace of adopting news and information models that are much, much worse.

ChatGPT isn’t just a force of destruction for industries that think it will be their savior. It plays the same trick on a personal, individual level. This becomes clear when someone is suffering from an obvious delusion—what’s become known as “ChatGPT induced psychosis”—but I think ChatGPT’s insidiousness lies in the mundane uses, too.

Obviously, I’m not a fan of ChatGPT. But I’m not completely immune to its propaganda, either. There have been times that I’ve felt an urge to downloaded and use ChatGPT, times when I’m feeling really desperate. Therein lies the danger of it.

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