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A.I., not a fan

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I guess people don’t understand and that’s okay…

But someone asked me if I use A.I. when I write.

No, I do not.

I’m not a fan of A.I. for anything.

I’m a journalist because I wanted a career that is also creative.

A.I. is nothing but.

Sorry A.I. supporters, but it’s really not.

Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva on Unsplash

Several months ago I met a women who specializes in A.I. for business, who asked the question how could A.I. help your business?

I said, “If A.I. could automatically get rid of anything phishing so I don’t have that bullshit in my in-box, that would help my peace of mind.”

A.I. sucks because it can’t do that.

A little backstory — and a WARNING — here. Some may (or may not) remember earlier this year I temporarily left WordPress.

Someone who follows my blog did one of those hyper-like thingies where they “liked” at least 15 of my blogs all in a row.

Honestly, I can’t even stand when someone likes TWO of my blogs in a row, let alone 15 in a row. No one reads that fast and it’s just an obnoxious way to try to get someone’s attention.

What attention seeking fool is doing this, I asked myself?

I clicked on their blog and BOOM!!! A huge pop-up came on to my computer saying I had contracted a virus and I had to send money to this person.

The punchline — I DID NOT HAVE A VIRUS, IT WAS A SCAM!

I reached out to WordPress to let them know. They were clueless and helpless. Especially the last customer service woman who ended her emails with “Ciao” — trying in an obnoxious way to say the conversation was over. (No, it’s over when I say it’s over, so I was just as obnoxious back writing “CHOW.” When people are assholes, I always have to get the last word.)

The result, I temporarily left WordPress for Medium.

During that month my blogs and articles on Medium were unseen, yet I’d get hundreds of “claps” for my clever responses to someone else’s blogs. This wasn’t doing me any good.

Meanwhile, I was still getting hundreds of views on WordPress. Every day people look at this blog, digging up my old stuff. On the right hand side of this page, I can see what my top posts are. It’s interesting that people are finding stuff from so long ago, stuff that I didn’t see in a long time. It’s cool to see that, like reading an old diary.

I deleted Medium and came back to WordPress. I’ve been here since 2012 and I’m not going anywhere anymore.

That said, I will beware before clicking on any WordPress page unless I have been conversing with that person.

Likes are cute, but the real depth of having a blog is conversation. If I’m saying something that resonates with someone else and they let me know, who wouldn’t love that? No matter how busy I am, if I receive a kind comment from someone, I’ll more than likely check out their blog and make a comment myself.

This kind of interaction, you can’t get with A.I.

We are real people behind these computers (or, urgh phones!) we type on. We have depth. We have feelings. We have personality.

A.I. is just weird, as is Alexa.

God made the brains of human beings in a beautiful way — with thoughts, imagination, creativity. And the same with our bodies. Our legs and fingers can do everyday things, like change a channel or choose music. “Alexa, let’s hear a Queen song” never sat with me. I don’t think Freddie Mercury would like it either. I’m sure he’d want you to pick your favorite song, not A.I.

A.I. and Alexa may be trying to take over, but there are many holdouts who won’t buy into it.

The very first portion of this blog, I wrote on Facebook last night. Just to say I don’t use A.I. as a journalist.

I was so happy that quite a few people agreed with me, hating on A.I.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not above any sort of technology — if it helps!

And right now, the biggest and best thing technology could be used for is to nail criminals, but I don’t see that.

A criminal was on WordPress and got away with it being a criminal. They deleted their account before anything could be done. And I was the “problem” who got a mere “Ciao” instead of true compassion. Maybe the WordPress “customer service rep” was A.I? Who the hell knows..

Criminals phish my emails every day, pretending to be famous authors who are interested in my work. I’m hitting the “Phish” button faster than a greased rat’s ass because I type about 82 wpm. (It used to be 100, but like everyone else, I am aging).

A.I. or Alexa, if you can fix phishing and scamming, I will change my mind about you.

For now, my opinion is, we are just nanoseconds from living this haunting song from the sixties.

Listen to the words, we are living the future. We are done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gb7poHQuMWg

Åh, det her er guld værd!

Som @reynir lige gjorde mig opmærksom på, så erkender Microsoft i deres anvendelsesbetingelser, at den "AI", de har tvunget ind i hele deres styresystem, Office-suite og udviklerplatformen Github... kun er et legetøj:

#noAI #aiisbullshit

Has anyone noticed that in the last 6-8 weeks the AI Slop has now started to dominate Instagram too?

Just for fun this morning I watched someone build an underground den in buried shipping containers. Not only did the size of the containers increase every time he brought new furniture in; but he was able to get an absolutely huge TV in through a tiny little hatch.

The resin floors are hilarious. I'm guessing these guys never actually paid for any resin when they pour around £80,000 of the stuff onto some cotton wool to make "clouds" nor do they realise resin is quite dense and would squash most things they pour it onto flat

The worrying thing though was the comments - about half recognised it was AI, but the remainders described it as beautiful and amazing.

#aislop #aiisnotart #aiisbullshit

Facebook is already full of junk AI videos.

Instagram has now joined the fold.

This is why SSD's cost £500.

#aislop #aiisbullshit #aiisnotart #aihype #Facebook #Instagram #metaistoxic

@nomenloony I wonder whether the LLM used the back cover of Hawkwind’s 1979 album PXR5 as part of its training material. Great album though.

#chatgpt #aiisbullshit #aiisdangerous #hawkwind

I hope this toddler of a CEO gets thrown out of a job by their board. What a fucking idiot. #AIisBullshit
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/million-dollar-ai-campaign-defaced

Yes, and when that bubble explodes it's going to take the entire US economy with it. #AIisBullshit
https://infosec.exchange/@jerry/115294264159114599

So while setting up the Ubuntu system I used the supplied Firefox without any adblockers and with google as the search engine. I ran about 15 searches for quite specific things like dpkg commands and the like.

Every query got the Gemini "ai" answer at the top. And every one of these was wrong. Every. Single. One.

Incorrect package names. Wrong command options. Stuff that didn't apply to 25.04 or even Ubuntu generally.

How clueless does one have to be to hype this BS?
#aiisbullshit

It’s not mine and it’s from 2018 but definitely even more relevant these days when it comes to the whole AI thing.
#AIisBullshit

"Many popular discussions of ChatGPT call its false statements ‘hallucinations’. One also might think of these untruths as lies. However, we argue that this isn’t the right way to think about it. We will argue that these falsehoods aren’t hallucinations later – in Sect. 3.2.3. For now, we’ll discuss why these untruths aren’t lies but instead are bullshit."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

#ai #hallucinations #aiisbullshit

@ElleGray

#AIisBullshit

'ChatGPT is bullshit' - https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5 #AIisbullshit

https://jacobin.com/2024/06/ai-data-center-energy-usage-environment #AIisbullshit

AI’s Insatiable Need for Energy Is Straining Global Power Grids - https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-ai-data-centers-power-grids/ (paywalled, but works in reader view) #AIisbullshit

My word this is good. Earns extra credit for sublime use of the insult 'dickhead'.
#computing #AIIsBullshit
I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity
https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/

#aiIsBullshit #bbsTheDocumentary #cheshireCatalyst #heartworms #jackieAndLaurieShow #jackieKashian #jasonScott #jesusandmarychain #podcast #trueDetective

https://evilgeniuschronicles.org/b/35i

I play a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain; I talk a little about seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert; the big dog is getting treated for heartworms; I’m staying in the developer relations slack for now; I am so glad I don’t have to take jobs with AI firms seriously; I never used my real job title; Jason Scott eulogizes Cheshire Catalyst; things go from useful to junk to historically interesting; I am enjoying throwing decaying photo albums away; I am going to collage bullshit photographs; Jackie Kashian lost her patience with button pushers; I am no longer rounding up transactions for charity; I watched True Detective Seasons 3 and 4.

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I guess at least this time it didn't tell me to install Tidal on my phone or start playing "Country Roads”.

This shit used to work, Apple.

#siri #AIisbullshit

https://soundcloud.com/jwisser/siri-why-part-1

suw has a good summary of AI and the written arts on s_bst_ck

The Crapocalypse is coming.

https://wordcounting.substack.com/

#AI #ML #AIIsBullshit #writing #writingcommunity #booktoot #writersofmastodon #