The more that I have tried to personally formalize my own feelings about LLMs (because I am anticipating having to have some extremely stressful conversations around their use in data journalism over the next few years), the more I keep thinking the word that best describes them is "corrosive."

The knowledge commons gets eroded, laundered, and spammed. Users' skills atrophy, along with their critical thinking. Labor is undermined. It may not be inherent to the tech itself, but the effect of all current implementations is to weaken the integrity of whatever they come in contact with.