Got this after I heard my friend Edward Slavsquat shared some excellent Thoreau quotes in an interview. This is also part of my decision to focus the majority of my 2026 book purchases on writing that was published before modern computers existed (pre 1990).

It is part of my twelve step program to de-colonize my mind of machine generated linguistics/thinking, detoxify my mind of chatbot slop and get a solid feel for what human thoughts, poems, perspectives, linguistics and self expression was like before the age of internet (and google/chatbot) dependence (as compared to now).

Some think that Google and Wikipedia are trustworthy sources of information for those seeking to self-educate, however, while they may be better than chatGPT in some cases, as I point out in my post linked below, in reality some of the “search engines” and “online encyclopedias” are behavior modification, social engineering and psychological warfare platforms in disguise.

As I am sure is the case for many of you reading this, I do not use AI for writing, nor will I willingly go and read LLM generated articles or books. However, as I highlighted in my most recent poll/post in my newsletter, in many instances we are engaging with content that is A.I. Generated and we have no idea. Also, even if one is very scrupulous and discerning and manages to avoid most chatbot generated articles and books (which would be an impressive feat given how over half of internet traffic now is bot generated) people will now often get these chatbots to write comments in response to you, so just by reading comments you are exposed to machine thinking and brain cell killing chatbot linguistics.

Then there is also the fact that some people are so addicted and helplessly dependent on these chatGPTs and the like that they talk like a chatbot in real life, so just by talking to these chatbot psychosis suffering, machine thinking mentally colonized (semi-lobotomized) people in real life , you are also being exposed to the mind numbing machine thinking of LLMs as a sort of secondary ripple effect (chatbot slop shedding, if you will).

So whether through unknowingly reading chatbot generated content, whether entire books (which there are a frighteningly huge amount of now on the market) online articles or comments, as well as just interacting with fully chatGPT mentally colonized individuals in 3d, we are being exposed to a sort of equivalent to digital second hand smoke. The IQ lowering ,generalizing, hallucinating and soulless chatbot slop is leaking out of the dead internet and into our lives.

Thus, I shall create a twelve step program (okay maybe not twelve steps I was just joking around with that reference) to detox the brain of all the second hand chatbot slop toxins we are being exposed to, and along with old books by good writers, time spend in nature will obviously be important and being creative with my hands as well.

I’ll share more on this in another post sometime.

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