But… my hair is on my scalp. I see what you’re getting at but leaving conditioner in all my hair while I body wash and rinsing conditioner last has done wonders.

I’ve come round to the idea that I will not use LLMs regardless of how “ethically” they can be sourced because their outputs are harmful in a way that builds up, like a very small dose of poison.

I’m not holding this as a hard stance, just a current analysis of the technology and how it might affect my life in my circumstances. I think we’re well into a world where we need to be deciding if some technologies don’t suit our lives, because there certainly are even more harmful technologies to come.

It might seem like a romantic or artist’s approach, but with so much spiralling out of our control I’m trying to make the active choice to be more human.

In leav­ing progress to the machines, in letting technology go forward on its own terms and selecting from it, with what seems to us exces­sive caution, modesty, or restraint, the limited though completely ade­quate implements of their cul­tures, is it possible that in thus opting not to move “forward” or not only “forward,” these people did in fact succeed in living in hu­man history, with energy, liberty, and grace?

Always Coming Home - Stone Telling Part 3 by Ursula K. Le Guin