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<p>WHEREAS, AI and the companies behind those tools have vacuumed up the entire Internet without licensing it or fairly compensating the authors for use in their AI models. Automated scrapers, due largely to the rise of AI chatbots, now account for more than half of all Internet traffic, and up to 80% in some countries. This causes strain on web servers, leads to a loss of revenue for site owners, and unfairly removes attribution to the copyright holders <sup>[<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-ai-art-stealing-from-artists">The New Yorker</a>] [<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/09/ai-watchdog-faq/684082/">The Atlantic</a>]</sup>; and</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Large-language models by their nature do not know fact from fiction. <sup>[<a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-are-ai-hallucinations-why-chatbots-make-things-up-and-what-you-need-to-know/">CNET</a>]</sup> On some tests, LLMs lie up to 99% of the time. <sup>[<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04307v3">arXiv</a>]</sup> Because of how trustworthy or authoritative these tools may seem, their output tends to be blindly trusted, despite the fact that it is impossible for them not to produce falsehoods. These mistakes can be costly, in terms of lives lost or lawsuits, when &laquo;experts&raquo; use the tools for things like medicine or law or policy. Already, laywers have been fined and sanctioned <sup>[<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/attorney-slapped-with-hefty-fine-for-citing-21-fake-ai-generated-cases/ar-AA1N6qCq">PCMag</a>]</sup> for using generative AI tools that created fake citations; and</p>
<p>WHEREAS, Large-language models by their nature do not know fact from fiction. <sup>[<a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/what-are-ai-hallucinations-why-chatbots-make-things-up-and-what-you-need-to-know/">CNET</a>]</sup> On some tests, LLMs lie up to 99% of the time. <sup>[<a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04307v3">arXiv</a>]</sup> Because of how trustworthy or authoritative these tools may seem, their output tends to be blindly trusted, despite the fact that it is impossible for them not to produce falsehoods. These mistakes can be costly, in terms of lives lost or lawsuits, when &laquo;experts&raquo; use the tools for things like medicine or law or policy. Already, lawyers have been fined and sanctioned <sup>[<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careersandeducation/attorney-slapped-with-hefty-fine-for-citing-21-fake-ai-generated-cases/ar-AA1N6qCq">PCMag</a>]</sup> for using generative AI tools that created fake citations; and</p>
<p>WHEREAS, The datacenters that power the complex calculations behind generative AI are already causing significant harm to the environment, <sup>[<a href="https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environmental-problem-heres-what-world-can-do-about">UNEP</a>] [<a href="https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmental-impact-0117">MIT</a>] [<a href="https://journals.calstate.edu/ai-edu/article/view/5448">Cal State</a>]</sup> the water supply, <sup>[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/technology/meta-data-center-water.html">NYTimes</a>] [<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/cindygordon/2024/02/25/ai-is-accelerating-the-loss-of-our-scarcest-natural-resource-water/">Forbes</a>]</sup> and the energy grid. <sup>[<a href="https://iee.psu.edu/news/blog/why-ai-uses-so-much-energy-and-what-we-can-do-about-it">PennState</a>] [<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x">Nature</a>]</sup> We already are dealing with drastic changes in climate that the world is not willing to counteract, as recently reaffirmed at the UN<sup> September 2025</sup> and we do not need yet another climate catastrophe. Residents near these datacenters, and even other tech sites like cryptocurrency miners, report lack of fresh water, dramatic increases in electric bills, constant noise, light pollution, dead crops, air hazards, and more. This is just for those living <em>near</em> the centers. For just electricity, demand is expected to exceed capacity<sup> [<a href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/09/to-meet-ai-energy-demands-start-with-maximizing-the.html">RAND</a>]</sup> in just five years<sup> 2030</sup>. These changes ripple out and will effect you as well; and</p>

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<p><b>In memory of Roscoe Hamilton, 2013-2025</b></p>
<p>Roscoe has passed away at the age of 12 Monday morning following hospitalization from pneumonia.</p>
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<p>Roscoe has passed away at the age of 12 Sunday evening following hospitalization from pneumonia.</p>
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