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EDIT: A "luddite" is opposed to new technology. I'm a coder and technical educator. I teach people to use LLMs.
Responsible use of a new technology is not being a luddite. And there are equivalent concerns of the effects of social media on children as well.
an LLM is a next token prediction function. of course it matters how you use it, and if you want to use it for an educational purpose, that has to be intentional, so i agree with you on that.
chatgpt and all the other ai powered scams and attention monetization apps are horrible, because they are just using improved technology to accelerate the exploitation of consumers (both adults and children) of media and app platforms.
the solution here is not to say the technology is bad but to use it to create competitive products that are actually beneficial.
In the context of educating 5 year olds, I would firmly argue that the solution involves exactly zero use of LLMs.
Can you point to any serious studies that sustain that claim? If anything that sounds like a gamifying learning experience, letting children become expert beginners.
But on a personal level I would vastly prefer my children use even a crappy AI chat app like Deepseek than watch Youtube. If you have young children and pay attention it would be almost impossible to come to a different conclusion.