Fuck AI

It's creating a great deal of artificial scarcity, causing prices to skyrocket in the one thing i still cared about, which was computers and personal electronics in general.

but moreover, it's not JUST that the content that it generates is shit, it's that it's all gormlessly uncreative regurgitation. A PERSON can create shit, and it'd still be more interesting both intellectually and emotionally than the slop output of a hallucination box. An actual imagination synthesizes new ideas out of extant ones--still derivative, but transformative and novel. AI will never actually create anything original, though, because all it can put out is just shoddy facsimiles of what was put in.

... ever feel like, although entropy is inevitable, living things have some limited ability to create a bit of an eddy in that flow, a localized spot of turbulence where the intention and agency of biological processes uses some of that energy as it passes to sort this, and store that, and painstakingly whittle a little signal from a lot of noise...?

meanwhile AI ... doesn't. It's not signal. It's JUST noise. If we see any signal in it, it's because we're projecting it from our own perspective. As sapient minds, we're deriving meaning from what we see, and injecting meaning into what we do. if there can be said to be any creativity in AI whatsoever, the sole province of it is the curation and--again--projection of the user. Only as much creativity as watching clouds roll across a blue sky and pondering what that cloud kinda looks like.

except in this case each one of those clouds is consuming megawatt-hours of energy, boiling off hundreds of gallons of otherwise potable water, and burning out GPU, Memory, and Storage hardware that would've been better utilized on literally any other activity imaginable.