Fucking Tired of AI

Title. I really wish we could turn back time to 2022 when ChatGPT and GitHub copilot were being dropped and stopped the bomb then. Everywhere I go online now is populated by a mass infestation of AI trash of variying degree; can we or will we ever get back our fun tech discussion online without bullshit ads or bots or any of this novo-dystopian nonsense? I am specially worried about new programers and internet users being bombarded with tons of AI-written books, pornography, music, video, audio, images. And if you think it isn't bad, try googling any historical figure and you'll find some bullshit AI generated image of them likely before the actual one.

What do we do? Do we just create new social media platforms and blogs (IRC again?) that are so heavily filtered / censored such that no AI content is ever tolerated? Do we do the Sam Altman thing and try scanning a billion eyeballs as 'proof of human'?

I used to be an AI optimist but this is just ridiculous. How do you all cope?

Technology progresses and evolves in the direction that capital dictates, and this is what the money people want.

Accept it and move on. Cultivate community in your life, let go of the ways that technology no longer serves you.

Where do you hide? Sure, you can and should create Dunbar-sized networks where everyone knows your name, but IIRC, Amazon sells AI clones of real books, "Scientific" papers are completely or partly AI. You can't buy an iPhone without AI (hoping my iPhone SE can't support it), your computer will have it, want it or not. And every damn business and agency you deal with will, if for no other reason, it eliminates jobs, and is a shiny sales object that your competitors offer, even with its failings.

I suppose that you could make some money selling "AI-Free" products and services, like cage-free eggs, nitrite-free foods, and so on. Certified "Legacy" books, BAI, before AI.

Spend less time on social media, and the internet in general

#Barely_Coping

I skim headlines, etc. A growing list of keywords makes me go ... skip!

Of course, there is that gnawing feeling that I'm missing interesting stuff. But that is the price of clinging onto my sanity.

I'm hoping for: it too will pass. We've had AI winters before, and perhaps this winter we'll pull the plug on the data-barns in order to keep the lights on and stay warm. Even EVs need more charging since the cold reduces their effective range.