I was scrolling on my personal Instagram when I came across a post by a small business account I follow urging other businesses to stop using AI to write their captions and create their posts. The point she was making was that using AI takes away from the sense of connection. You wouldn't use AI to talk to your friends, and it's uncomfortable when strangers use it to talk to you. By using ChatGPT or another LLM to create your social media posts, you're gaining time and effici

Disclosure: I started writing this blog post on Saturday, January 3, 2026, and so much has happened since then. The Stranger Things ending has become such a telling online social experiment. (I have to clarify that it's "online" because none of the conversations I've had with people in real life about this ending contained the amount of vitriol and disappointment that I've been seeing in online discourse). I really believe that we as a society are becoming way too uncomforta

I was a 90s kid. I grew up with all those robo toys and virtual pets, surrounded by Y2K futurism and sci-fi movies, books, and TV shows, and I always wanted a robot assistant or AI sidekick. I was so excited for the 21st-century future of Zenon , Jimmy Neutron , and Dexter's Laboratory . I was ready for AI. So, how did I become anti-AI as an adult? The artificial intelligence (AI) we got was not exactly what was promised to us. This technology has the potential to be a great