Sins of the "New Tobacco" Industry
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Here is my personal collection of works (blog articles, research papers, etc.) on limitations and negative impact of information technology products (smartphone, social media, machine learning especially deep learning like LLM, etc.), in spite of the ongoing hypes such as "AI".
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Theory and individual experience
- M. Yu et al., “The Stochastic Parrot on LLM’s Shoulder: A Summative Assessment of Physical Concept Understanding,” Feb. 13, 2025, arXiv: arXiv:2502.08946. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2502.08946.
- G. V. Neville-Neil, “The Drunken Plagiarists: Working with Co-pilots,” Queue, vol. 22, no. 6, p. Pages 30:18-Pages 30:22, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1145/3711675.
- M. T. Hicks, J. Humphries, and J. Slater, “ChatGPT is bullshit,” Ethics Inf Technol, vol. 26, no. 2, p. 38, Jun. 2024, doi: 10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.
- I. Shumailov, Z. Shumaylov, Y. Zhao, Y. Gal, N. Papernot, and R. Anderson, “The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget,” Apr. 14, 2024, arXiv: arXiv:2305.17493. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2305.17493.
- D. Pinsof, “AI Doomerism Is Bullshit,” Everything Is Bullshit. 2025-01-27.
- L. Berglund et al., “The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on ‘A is B’ fail to learn ‘B is A,’” Sep. 22, 2023, arXiv: arXiv:2309.12288. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2309.12288.
- E. M. Bender, T. Gebru, A. McMillan-Major, and S. Shmitchell, “On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜,” in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency, in FAccT ’21. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Mar. 2021, pp. 610–623. doi: 10.1145/3442188.3445922.
- SecuShare, “The Internet Is Broken.” 2021-06-30.
- Andy Farnell, Digital Vegan. Applied Scientific Press, 2021.
Economics and politics
- A. Humlum and E. Vestergaard, “Large Language Models, Small Labor Market Effects,” Apr. 15, 2025, Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY: 5219933. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5219933.
- Y. Chaudhary and J. Penn, “Beware the Intention Economy: Collection and Commodification of Intent via Large Language Models,” Harvard Data Science Review, no. Special Issue 5, Dec. 2024, doi: 10.1162/99608f92.21e6bbaa.
- Eric Hollenbeck, “Using the term ‘artificial intelligence’ in product descriptions reduces purchase intentions,” WSU Insider. 2024-07-30.
- C. Bastable, “Monetization & Monopolies: How The Internet You Loved Died,” Radical Contributions. 2024-07-25.
- Stefaan Verhulst, “A.I.-Generated Garbage Is Polluting Our Culture,” The Living Library. 2024-03-30.
- A. Searles, R. T. Prapty, and G. Tsudik, “Dazed & Confused: A Large-Scale Real-World User Study of reCAPTCHAv2,” Nov. 21, 2023, arXiv: arXiv:2311.10911. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2311.10911.
- J. Pahlka, Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2023.
- S. Zilinskas-Inta, L. Hübner, B. Bromova, and L. Perruchoud, “European OSS Policy as a Countermeasure to Big Tech Dominance,” Apr. 2023.
- C. Bastable, “American Zaibatsu: Macroeconomics for Tech Employees,” Conrad Bastable. 2022-02-10.
- 日本経済新聞, “日本のデジタル赤字4.7兆円 22年、海外ITへ支払い拡大,” 日本経済新聞, Feb. 08, 2023.
- Baldur Bjarnason, The Intelligence Illusion: a practical guide to the business risks of Generative AI. Hveragerði, Iceland, 2023.
- Patrick D. Anderson, “Privacy for the weak, transparency for the powerful: the cypherpunk ethics of Julian Assange,” Ethics Inf Technol, vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 295–308, Sep. 2021, doi: 10.1007/s10676-020-09571-x.
- Tayler Houston, “Mass Surveillance and Terrorism: Does PRISM Keep Americans Safer?,” Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects, May 2017,
- E. S. Herman and N. Chomsky, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. London: The Bodley Head Ltd, 2008. (赫尔曼爱德华 S. and 乔姆斯基诺姆, 制造共识：大众传媒的政治经济学. in 未名社科传播政治经济学译丛. 北京大学出版社, 2011.)
Society and history
- G. Burtch, D. Lee, and Z. Chen, “The consequences of generative AI for online knowledge communities,” Sci Rep, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 10413, May 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-61221-0.
- K. Munger, “The YouTube Apparatus,” Elements in Politics and Communication, Apr. 2024, doi: 10.1017/9781009359795.
- Athena Chapekis, Samuel Bestvater, Emma Remy, and Gonzalo Rivero, “When Online Content Disappears,” Pew Research Center. 2024-05-17.
- freedom-introvert, “深挖b站如何控评-对阿瓦隆系统探究,” GitHub. 2024-04-09.
- Meredith Whittaker, “AI, Encryption, and the Sins of the 90s,” NDSS Symposium. 2024-02-27.
- C. E. Robertson, N. Pröllochs, K. Schwarzenegger, P. Pärnamets, J. J. Van Bavel, and S. Feuerriegel, “Negativity drives online news consumption,” Nat Hum Behav, pp. 1–11, Mar. 2023, doi: 10.1038/s41562-023-01538-4.
- M. Crain, Profit over Privacy: How Surveillance Advertising Conquered the Internet. Minneapolis London: Univ of Minnesota Pr, 2021.
Health and habits
- N. Kosmyna et al., “Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task,” Jun. 10, 2025, arXiv: arXiv:2506.08872. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872.
- V. Capraro et al., “A Consensus Statement on Potential Negative Impacts of Smartphone and Social Media Use on Adolescent Mental Health,” May 16, 2025, Social Science Research Network, Rochester, NY: 5256747. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.5256747.
- R. L. Brown and R. C. and Brooks, “Smartphones: Parts of Our Minds? Or Parasites?,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, pp. 1–16, May 2025, doi: 10.1080/00048402.2025.2504070.
- J. M. Nagata et al., “Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms During Early Adolescence,” JAMA Network Open, vol. 8, no. 5, p. e2511704, May 2025, doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.11704.
- R. H. Perlis et al., “Irritability and Social Media Use in US Adults,” JAMA Network Open, vol. 8, no. 1, p. e2452807, Jan. 2025, doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.52807.
- N. Veraksa, A. Veraksa, M. Gavrilova, D. Bukhalenkova, E. Oshchepkova, and A. Chursina, “Short- and Long-Term Effects of Passive and Active Screen Time on Young Children’s Phonological Memory,” Front. Educ., vol. 6, Apr. 2021, doi: 10.3389/feduc.2021.600687.
- K. P. Madore et al., “Memory failure predicted by attention lapsing and media multitasking,” Nature, vol. 587, no. 7832, pp. 87–91, Nov. 2020, doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2870-z.
- Y. Hu, X. Long, H. Lyu, Y. Zhou, and J. Chen, “Alterations in White Matter Integrity in Young Adults with Smartphone Dependence,” Front Hum Neurosci, vol. 11, p. 532, Nov. 2017, doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00532.
- 松﨑 泰 and 川島 隆太, “心理学ワールド 91号 小特集 ネットとゲームへの依存が脳に及ぼす影響 松﨑 泰（東北大学）／川島 隆太（東北大学） | 日本心理学会,” 公益社団法人日本心理学会.
- Rolf Dobelli, “Avoid News: Towards a Healthy News Diet,” p. 11, 2010.