Thoughts about AI

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I hate it. I'd burn it all to the ground if I could.

I hate that there are YouTube creators who have openly spoken against AI, only for adverts for AI chatbots to use their image and likeness to promote their product. It's like witnessing skinwalkers. Not to mention all kinds of messed up.

I hate that people have used AI to distort history to fit their narrative. I'm horrified when I witness people just be OK with this, as if I'm weird one for finding all of this disturbing.

I hate how companies are just cramming it into every little freaking thing. I hate how all my adverts are just AI tool this, AI tool that. I hate that where my power button on my phone used to be is now replaced with an AI assistant.

I especially hate that advertising standards have just gone out the window and now I have to explain to my parents what's real and what's a scam product being advertised by AI. I hate that my dad tried to download an app to turn off his phone because he didn't understand that it had moved to the top menu, so my sister had to explain to him how that's not how it works and how apps like that are mainly spyware.

I hate that I graduated into a world where the job market is in utter shambles and I'm supposed to just grin and bear it! I'm supposed to just be fine, accept that I spent four years studying something that would end up being replaced by AI. Now every time I open LinkedIn I get a message saying "Hey! Saw your profile and thought you would be a great fit to train our AI so it can replace you! We'll pay you very little and then leave you unemployed. " Oh wow. What a freaking deal.

Oh and the artwork. The freaking artwork. It's like the rules of fae, it looks fine if you look at it from a distance but if you look any closer it has all these nonsense details that don't make any sense and you're sat there thinking - this is what replaced me? Does no one even care about quality?

Frankly it makes me angry and outright depressed. I want to yell but people would just look at me sideways and not understand. The usual response is a callous "Adapt or die" and I hate that. Or "That's what you get for not going into the trades".

I liked it when people spoiled the outputs by hiding rude messages in their artwork, so that if the AI used their art as training material then it would say something rude. My favourite was when people would hide "Sorry, I farted" into artwork and people who were prompting for logos ended up with logos that said that. We need more sabotage.

I used to like Art Station but I deleted my account when the website ended up overrun with AI pictures. People were bullying artists off the platform and we didn't like that our work was being used to train AI models. So we banded together to spread an anti-AI message and for a temporary amount of time, people were getting angry because their AI outputs were being overrun by SAY NO TO AI in bright red text.

I don't know what I'm going to do. Right now, I just keep going from temporary retail job to temporary retail job but I'd really like something stable. I'd like to have property someday. I'd like to not live with my parents. I'd like to have dates over and have my own life.

I know life changes. However, it does feel like instead of one door closing and another opening, it's like I'm up a ladder and someone just set fire to the bottom of it. Do I be a hairdresser? Learn sculpting? Be a reseller? I don't know anymore. I don't know what's a safe option. I just want some job security. I want my own life. I'm jealous of retired people. And I don't know where to put my anger. So, have this rant.

I'm getting to where I don't trust news stories on the Internet.

Also, if on Youtube, I block any channel that I think is using AI, either to create the stories or to narrate them.

You cannot trust anything they say to be accurate. For example, there are several new channels that claim to cover the surprise by German and Japanese POWs in World War II who are brought to the US about how great it was. Sure, much might have been accurate, but there are inevitably some serious historical inaccuracies.

For example, there was one about female German prisoners being brought to the US and how grateful they were to go through a delousing station upon entering the camp. Someone with knowledge about the situation pointed out that they actually went through the delousing stations in Europe before boarding the ships. There may have been a delousing station at their camp, too, but by then they should have had most lice removed at the ports in France.

There are many HOA stories on Youtube that are complete nonsense. For example, someone buying a ten acre ranch so that they can roam all day on their ranch, raise a large herd of cattle and horses, and so that nobody can build anything to block their view of the sunset. Ten acres is 435,600 square feet. If the ranch is square, at ten acres, it would be 660 feet on a side. Those stories are so stupid.

We really don't know how much of what they come up with is truth and how much is lies.

"vibe coding" has been made Collins word of the year

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 59721.html

What I love about a good LLM is that it's like the perfect tailor-made search engine where your actual question, not Google's closest approximate web search, gets answered. On top of that it's conversational so it can aggregate a factual viewpoint and let you know how far or how close to the mark your observations are. I wouldn't lean too heavy on it for reality-testing but it's great for those questions you want to ask, such as patterns and correlations you might be seeing in the environment and running an 'Am I crazy?' test on it by asking the LLM. Obviously if too many people do that it probably becomes a propaganda tool but at least for now if you ask the right questions and even if its prickly subject matter approach it from a position of compassion and desire to understand, it will answer without platitudes these days (even Gemini has gotten better).

Also - if you have a job where knowledge on how to do things is in public domain, at this point you even more don't have to worry about the workplace bully gatekeeping information based on who they like or dislike.

I’d ignored AI until recently - first, I replaced my iPad with the new M5 one and started playing with a toy called Draw Things which is a delight. Then my phone provider gave me a years subscription to Perplexity which is again a delight.

I’ve been trying to enliven my retirement by exploring a few of the “paths not taken” from the last decades of my programming career: first by running up Ubuntu servers with AWS free tier, now replacing my 1995 HTML knowledge with HTML5 and putting Ubuntu onto my 20 year old iMac. Sift through a dozen web pages offering different potential solutions or let a browser AI tell me the answer? I’m leaning towards the new way. Trust one of the myriad new tools that’ll whip you up a website faster than you can say “WTF?”. Not until I know how to tell how good its answer is.

The whipped up websites tend to be in React by default. No thanks.

A relevant New York Times opinion piece: Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens. by Kashmir Hill, Dylan Freedman, August 8, 2025:

you don't need to know ai ,
to know that big things (big government, big tech and big banking) love big things
with the least possible variants or 'diversity'
- hence the whole drama (look there, not here) about 'diversity' by 'investors' corporations,
luring investerfunds by feel-good sloganwaving

Micron, a company that produces DRAM products is leaving the consumer market and instead focusing on providing resources to and for AI data centers.

That's 26% of DRAM products for consumer needs going away.

Computers are already expensive enough. We don't need this on top of that.

It is a shame that society is headed for reliance on AI for anything. Have engaged,supposedly unknowningly interacted with various companies AI . Not my preferance by a large margin . And am offended to know that some companies are replacing employees with AI of various sorts .A Heating and cooling company in my town Had quickly lost my business
when I realized that in order to deal with them I had to engage a AI ? assistant? . And went with a more expensive but much more competint Company.

I wonder if AI will have thoughts about humans?

It started a bit as a joke and was bored at work... (bored as in busy enough not to be able to take more stuff but in between waiting for results of things... "breathing room boredom")

Was asking AI more therapy related questions... amongst others why I avoid therapy (which sort of got me the 'does not exist but hey, it applies' pda label... ok, there is more to that...)

After I got past the 'I hate AI' feel, I did start to get ok results. It felt more honest than a real person. This might be bad that I feel that way... But I did get answers to stuff therapists know but don't want to tell you. Afraid you would take it the wrong way or they tone it down so much 'my little auti brain can't cope with reality'.
It felt honest. Ended up into the 'not allowed to talk about this' - "SEEK HELP NOW" safety a few times so with proper person on other side I would be locked up now...
When it gave me stuff I had to do, told it 'you told me I don't like being told stuff to do' (still thinks that is a normal thing...) and he agreed, rewrote his list and even told me what and why he rephrased stuff. Try telling a therapist he is wrong

It is scary that I only seem to be able to talk to AI and trust the responses.

I use AI daily
I think it's a good companion to traditional research, but too many people use it as a sole source.
However, while I don't advocate it being used as a replacement for therapy. It is good to introduce myself to new ideas.

Last question I asked it
"How do I get motivation as a audhd adult"

Which led it to educate me about the Pomodoro method ( timer based tasks) I wouldn't have known about it and how I can apply it to my life without the AI.

Also, brainstorming with AI is really fun especially when it matches your energy.