We are as a society sleepwalking into bringing children up to be incapable of concentrating for long enough to absorb complex and frequently conflicting information in order to analyse it for themselves. Instead, we are expected to be delighted that LLM AI is supposedly doing that for us - except to check that it is doing that properly and truthfully, we need to have done the work ourselves and then correct AI’s mistakes and hallucinations, which is quite frankly a ridiculous waste of our time, as that way we lose skills we should be developing or retaining (reading, writing and thinking for ourselves with an authentic voice) and don’t even develop our own knowledge, because we haven’t really done the work, we’ve outsourced it to a glorified spellchecker that neither knows nor cares what it writes or what it means, it just puts strings of words together in the way most likely to appear to make sense and look good on the surface. If you are lazy enough to use that, you are lazy enough not to check anything properly, provided there is nothing obviously wrong. And if you are overworked enough to need to do that and hope to get away with it, then AI hasn’t helped you, it’s just storing up trouble for when people belatedly realise how much harmful rubbish has been enmeshed into everything we do and rely on. Like Chinese whispers, the longer we rely on AI to invent bilge for us, the worse our problems will become, because more and more absolute crap will have crept its way into the mainstream and been accepted as truth, not invention.