We Can Care

Lately, it feels as though velocity across all ways of live has been rising. A katamari which needs ever-more content to keep growing. In an effort to meet velocity, many have resorted to AI responses. Quickly taking something off the plate. The katamari ball grows with copy-pasted AI responses, littered with em-dashes and affirmations. The value offered to anyone is little-to-none as those discussing in good faith have to cross-check, knowing the original poster is reliant on the probability slot machine. Little insights gained from having tidbits of human context are lost.
It's hard to resist the urge to keep the discourse flowing, with the lever right there. But it's important to resist that urge. Our human-led discussions should be met in-turn with humanity, not outsourced to AI. Being met with a clearly AI-written¹ message shows a lack of understanding at best, and a fundamental apathy at worst. It demonstrates a lack of courtesy to the original person. I've been on both sides of this. The first being overwhelmed with items to check off, and being asked a question that feels like another plate on the stack of dishes. The second viewing a disinterested response where your concern is met with a swift brush. What I want to emphasize here is that it's important, or at least I believe so², to assume good faith when we can and treat things as such. That we can care about the knowledge a topic presents.
A LLM-driven response does a disservice to both parties. Each time we fire off a prompt, we offload a part of our curiosity to a probablistic abyss. Despite perhaps sounding the opposite, we can use LLMs and care. Many have done this. I hope all the people in my life use refrain when staring at the stochastic void, because it will stare back. Trillions of dollars have been invested in making sure that people are allured, that they become dependent. We have what LLMs can never possess, adaptability. Our curiosity is inheritantly valuable.