Fuck AI

For me, I've long had little patience for shoddy work from a lot of people. I am used to making sure I have a fundamental understanding of things before I make proclamations about why something is the way it is or how to improve it. To me, AI is largely horrible because it just spews out plausible sounding stuff without understanding, which turns out to be a strategy that works often enough, but creates huge headaches in obnoxious ways when it is wrong.

For a lot of others I work with, that has been their whole career strategy, when in doubt, just spew words that seem plausible and hope it works out. AI actually can compete with them in many ways because they have largely built their career of making plausible sounding guesses that get ignored when they are totally wrong and praised when they happen to be right. This crowd loves the AI, and they also get promoted because society rewards confidence more than competence.

Another facet is that so many folks reckon themselves to be creative geniuses with no time to realize their great ideas, and they see the slurry of hollow crap they can fling onto the internet as fantastic, while the rest of us are exhausted by a flood of soulless crap drowning out some of the content we used to enjoy discovering.

Keep in mind that clickbait has long worked and enough people want to engage with clickbait, while another contingent smells it a mile away and wants to avoid it at all costs as they know it's empty crap to bait us. I suspect there's a similar breakdown of AI fans and foes, excepting that AI is at least useful in certain contexts.