Is the Future of the World All a Lie? Where Do We Go From Here?

Just as personal automobiles reshaped the structure of cities, the author views AI/LLMs as a technology set to greatly change the shape of work and society.

But that change hasn't brought only convenience—it has also brought problems already spreading everywhere: slop, false information, auto-generated spam, moderation burdens, rising power costs, and technical debt.

The author says this trend is directly invading people's individual work and lives.

• Search results and services across the board are flooded with low-quality generated content.
• LLMs are replacing or blurring customer support, contracts, development, writing, and even relationships.
• Even if current capabilities seem fine, as the technology grows more powerful, the scale of harm could become far greater.

As the best response to this, the author proposes stopping.

• Reduce or refuse LLM use at home and at work.
• Push back on generated content sent by colleagues and clients.
• Resist company demands to adopt Copilot/Gemini, and support labor unions and regulation.
• Oppose policies such as tax breaks for data centers.

However, this isn't a call for total rejection. The author acknowledges that very limited, verifiable uses—for example, narrow tasks like figuring out a lighting protocol to build a client library—can still be used.

The core argument is to slow down reckless adoption and buy time to protect human thinking ability, skill, and social safeguards.