Pledge Here to Try an Artificial Intelligence Detox

“I thought I’d feel FOMO, but instead I felt freedom.” 

— Alex, 2023 participant

Pledge to try a one-month or shorter break away from using generative AI chatbots in your work, school, or personal life. We have 3 ways you can participate in this challenge as we want to accommodate different needs. We highly recommend giving the All In approach a shot, but the other options are less intense if you are feeling hesitant!

  • Take a full 1 month detox. Delete all generative AI chatbot apps off your phone and computer for 30 days or block/restrict your own access to AI websites.
    This includes ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Llama, Jasper, MyAI, Character.AI, Grok, and others

  • Pledge to a 1 day, 1 week, or 2 week detox - fully customizable to your needs.
    Perfect for testing the waters or giving yourself a break.

  • Need 1 app for your career? Keep it.
    Delete all others, and only use the professional app strictly for its purpose. No personal chatbot use

Your Detox Toolkit

Why take a break from AI?

There are a million reasons.

You only need one.

What’s wrong with AI?

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I’m feeling overreliant

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I’m turning to it instead of to friends

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My creative energy is gone

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I spend too many hours talking to AI

Over-reliance & Cognitive Offloading

Many people are beginning to turn to AI every time they have a question, need support, or need to engage in critical thinking for school, work, or personal reasons. A recent MIT study found this could be decreasing your cognitive abilities.

Creativity Zapping

Creative energy might feel like it’s being zapped from you by an always-there brainstorming and photo/art generating buddy

Companions and Friend Replacement

Turning to AI instead of loved ones for advice could be very harmful - our social skills could decline and AI will always agree with you, not challenge you

Parasitic Data Collection

You might be feeling sick of AI companies harvesting your super personal data and using it to lure you in to use their chatbots even more

Environmental Impacts

Environmental activists are getting increasingly concerned about AI data-center’s use of energy, water, and natural resources, expediting climate change and local harms.

Sycophancy

Definition: obsequious behavior toward someone important in order to gain advantage.

AI systems tend to be sycophantic, agreeing with everything you say. There are numerous cases of AI-assisted suicides and chatbots aiding individuals into conspiracy rabbit-holes and schizophrenic delusion spirals.

Hallucinations & Lying

AI chatbots hallucinate and lie to users frequently, presenting false information when providing outputs due to the way chatbots are trained - you may be being fed misinformation or fake research studies - yet we collectively seem to trust what chatbots say as truth.

You are loved.