Why I don't use AI

(Balaam, A.J. (2025). In F. Buontempo, editor, Overload 190 (2025) .) I choose to avoid using "AI" (by which I mean Large Language Models 1 ). Here&#x27;s why: they have a devastating environmental impact, they are trained by exploiting and traumatising millions of low-paid workers, they produce biased and dangerously incorrect results, and they unfairly use people&#x27;s creative work.…