The day that a so called 'professional' editor ran a part of a chapter of one of my stories through Grammarly and completely negated my main character's Irish voice, - that was the day in which I refused to have anything to do with AI as a 'writer's assistant'.
Google's AI answer bot now seen at the top of most search engine queries often has a 'Answers may be inaccurate' warning in a tiny font at the bottom of whatever load of nonsense the bot has spat up.
AI now has a dangerous negative feedback loop. AI is trained by whatever information the AI companies can get their hands on. At first it was classic books, Wikipedia, etc… decent sources.
Then it expanded to whatever rants people made on X, Facebook, Instagram, biased news sites, etc.
Then AI started using what I can only describe as “low quality sources”. AI now generated “news”… at an ever increasing rate… which is ingested into the AIs at an equally ever-increasing rate. This negative feedback loop steadily decreases the quality of what AI produces.
So it gets worse and worse. Steve Bannon wrote about how to change the way people think about politics and social issues is to “flood the news with bullshit” and that is what is happening at an increasingly high rate. “Truth Social” is an oxymoron.
In other words: AI is not only helping to make people more and more uninformed of the truth, it is making ITSELF less and less reliable. But part of that loop is people: they can no longer tell truth from fiction.
The new dark ages are approaching as society dims Truth’s lights.
As I'm retired, I haven't used generative AI much. What I have seen is some writers using it's ineptitude to make some amusing drawings and stories. And I have tried a chatbot, and I was impressed but it's realism and ability to respond to humor in a realistic way. But, I am getting disappointed by the number of AI generated images being used everywhere. It's probably cheaper and copyright issues get sidestepped, I guess. It does make one appreciate the effort of people who do take the time to create a bit more though.
AI is embedded in nearly everything the big tech companies put out these days. I started using the Brave internet browser for security reasons last year but they've completely embedded AI into their search engine. When I want to look something up, the first summarized answer comes from an AI server, then there are other relevant articles underneath.
I'm doing some serious thinking about scrapping all of my Microsoft operating systems someday in the near future and replacing them with Linux OS's. I'm not ready yet because the Linux developers are still working on good quality systems still. Not that some of the legacy Linux OS's weren't bad (I still keep mine up to date on virtual servers), their just not ready for prime time yet.
Sorry, I didn't mean to geek out. The bottom line is that whether we like it or not, AI is here and becoming merged with nearly everything we do with a computer system anymore. That just means we have to be more diligent to make sure it doesn't become more than just another tool to be used as needed. I can't live without my imbedded spell checker but I'm mindful of it's nuances and Christian English bias. I have no problem leaving a non-English word redlined just because it doesn't understand.
The day that a so called 'professional' editor ran a part of a chapter of one of my stories through Grammarly and completely negated my main character's Irish voice, - that was the day in which I refused to have anything to do with AI as a 'writer's assistant'.
Google's AI answer bot now seen at the top of most search engine queries often has a 'Answers may be inaccurate' warning in a tiny font at the bottom of whatever load of nonsense the bot has spat up.
AI now has a dangerous negative feedback loop. AI is trained by whatever information the AI companies can get their hands on. At first it was classic books, Wikipedia, etc… decent sources.
Then it expanded to whatever rants people made on X, Facebook, Instagram, biased news sites, etc.
Then AI started using what I can only describe as “low quality sources”. AI now generated “news”… at an ever increasing rate… which is ingested into the AIs at an equally ever-increasing rate. This negative feedback loop steadily decreases the quality of what AI produces.
So it gets worse and worse. Steve Bannon wrote about how to change the way people think about politics and social issues is to “flood the news with bullshit” and that is what is happening at an increasingly high rate. “Truth Social” is an oxymoron.
In other words: AI is not only helping to make people more and more uninformed of the truth, it is making ITSELF less and less reliable. But part of that loop is people: they can no longer tell truth from fiction.
The new dark ages are approaching as society dims Truth’s lights.
As I'm retired, I haven't used generative AI much. What I have seen is some writers using it's ineptitude to make some amusing drawings and stories. And I have tried a chatbot, and I was impressed but it's realism and ability to respond to humor in a realistic way. But, I am getting disappointed by the number of AI generated images being used everywhere. It's probably cheaper and copyright issues get sidestepped, I guess. It does make one appreciate the effort of people who do take the time to create a bit more though.
AI is embedded in nearly everything the big tech companies put out these days. I started using the Brave internet browser for security reasons last year but they've completely embedded AI into their search engine. When I want to look something up, the first summarized answer comes from an AI server, then there are other relevant articles underneath.
I'm doing some serious thinking about scrapping all of my Microsoft operating systems someday in the near future and replacing them with Linux OS's. I'm not ready yet because the Linux developers are still working on good quality systems still. Not that some of the legacy Linux OS's weren't bad (I still keep mine up to date on virtual servers), their just not ready for prime time yet.
Sorry, I didn't mean to geek out. The bottom line is that whether we like it or not, AI is here and becoming merged with nearly everything we do with a computer system anymore. That just means we have to be more diligent to make sure it doesn't become more than just another tool to be used as needed. I can't live without my imbedded spell checker but I'm mindful of it's nuances and Christian English bias. I have no problem leaving a non-English word redlined just because it doesn't understand.