This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/
"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."
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