What do you think is the future of AI?
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There is no AI slop in my posts. Yes, there may be lots of organically produced slop, but hey! It’s all my own. This is a blog post. It’s supposed to be an expression of my thoughts and ideas. I do use a program to point out the grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors. But I decline all efforts by WordPress or Grammarly to let their AI “improve” on my merely human effort.
As a matter of fact, I find the repeated suggestions to use these things to be infuriating. Is this the major takeaway from AI? That it can’t take a blatant NO when it’s offered? Slack off, you pile of overheated transistors!
So do I use AI? As a matter of fact, like a number of other bloggers, I use it to generate graphics for my stories and posts. I suggest a theme and details, and the AI suggests some takes on the ideas. Sometimes the suggestions are right on track, and other times the images fall ridiculously short, but it is an experiment, and I like to observe how the AI interprets the interpretations of what I ask for. But an outgoing AI that gets a bit too pushy- no thanks. My view of the role of AI is aid and assistance, not going off on its own tangent or taking over.
Recently, though, I noticed my two cats, Macus and Sabrina, spending much more time dancing around on the keyboard of the laptop when I’m not in the room. Will I come in one day to find that the password to the laptop has been changed, and new subscriptions to funny cat videos have been charged to my credit card, boxes from Chewy are beginning to pile up on the porch, and the kitchen is now redolent with the pleasant, to cats, odor of expensive cat food?
Idiots! We thought AI would subvert humans! The dog just received a fresh box of chew toys! UPS delivered a new super elaborate cat tree. The damned AI is in cahoots with our cats and dogs. We’ve been betrayed!
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Aid and assistance I totally agree. Nice post.
I use AI the same way you do — to generate images to illustrate my posts. I had not thought of using AI as a proofreader to check for grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage errors, but you are the third person who has mentioned using AI for that. I may be the next person who uses AI to do that.
I use Grammarly, and I strictly throttle it. It also has AI that would happily retune all our words to match the internet’s twisting, NO, NO, NO!!!
AI graphics — if I tell Google Gemini I’m working on a painting? That MOFO will do it for me. That makes me furious. WP AI has offered to illustrate my posts and that makes me furious. I’m all, “Who the Fuck are you?” which is, I know, where a lot of people are with what AI writes. I’ve experimented with what’s available for a few years now and increasingly I don’t like it. I use grammarly as you do because I’m comma challenged and I know it. I don’t know. We’re stuck with it — as I am with the past now five days of rain. I don’t like it but what can I do about it? 🤣😹
I use the graphic generator to make stuff, like I did today, but that’s pretty much my limit. I’ve heard some scary stories told by other bloggers, and I am just not interested in letting AI get into my life to that degree.
I get that — I have benefited from its research ability as I’ve navigated this low ferritin thing. It even helped me identify the problem so I could go to my doc and ask for the test that confirmed my theory. I like that — it pointed me to a Johns Hopkins Research paper I could read and send to my doc. But in general? I don’t know — I think, like most tools, it depends on who’s using it. Speaking of tools, I love my wooden spoons. They are GREAT. Right now I’m cooking Bear’s chicken and rice and I couldn’t do it without that long-handled flat spoon/stirrer.
The graphics are spot on. Your crew would have a big time if they start using the AI. Those packages will be rolling in 🙂