Adding "AI" To Everything Is The New "Infused With Charcoal" And I Can't Be Convinced Otherwise.

Adding "AI" to everything is the new "Infused with Charcoal" and I can't be convinced otherwise.

Both instances have limited ways in which they are actually useful, but sketchy companies are adding it to products it has no business being tacked on to.

Both instances are potentially harmful if one does not research before using. "AI" is giving dubious advice. This is very funny when it tells people to put glue on pizza, not so much when it recommends home brewing mustard gas to clean your countertops. With charcoal toothpaste, it will whiten your teeth... by scraping off your precious enamel. God forbid you eat any charcoal-infused foods when taking life-saving medication that you absolutely need to absorb.

Unfortunately, unlike the charcoal fad, giant tech companies are going all-in on "AI" in the hopes that our data will grow it into something incredibly profitable.

This next decade is going to be incredibly annoying tech-wise as you are squeezed for data to feed a program that has a stronger prerogative to make shareholders Pikachu face when a chatbot feigns more empathy than they'll ever have than to remotely improve any of our lives.

Yay!

Honestly, I'd buy software like that to look back on my writing process after the final edit. I'd also love to see other author's work. I feel like it would be a great opportunity to fight feelings of imposter syndrome and to show others how many brainstorms, revisions, and evolutions we and what we create have to go through to reach a state of finished.

Not a bad idea, I think something like that would be beautiful.

Bad idea: a microblogging platform that watches how you compose your post, recording where you backtracked, replaced, rewrote, and cut out.

It then renders the post with that in mind: areas rewritten many times have faint blotches of grey, as if handwriting had been rubbed out with an eraser and written over. Later inserts are written small above their surroundings, with a little arrow pointing down to their place. Fast written text leans and almost glows, like it's freshly cast from metal. Long pauses are visible, as text slows its loading like an rpg dialogue box.

Render unto the reader the hints of where was was easy to write and what was hard. What needed revisions. What made the writer pause and consider before continuing.

I woke up this morning to an Easter basket on my bedside table and Easter Eggs hidden throughout the house.

Read em' and weep bois! I've got the best wife, because MY wife knows the Easter Bunny and she told him to surprise ME before he dies/resurrects for our sins this year 🐇🥚🧺

TikTok has convinced so many people that you're autistic or ADHD if you have completely typical experiences like "getting songs stuck in your head" or "having a strong sense of social justice" or "reverently kissing the ice-cold crown of the crow lord". No, you do not need to have autism to squeeze your eyes shut and stand completely still as a living statue to demonstrate your total submission to the crow lord. Plenty of neurotypical people bring him tributes of glass beads, tinfoil strips, roadkill, coins from dead men's pockets, and mice or rabbits fattened weeks in advance. Honestly TikTok has become such a dangerous engine for spreading misinformation. I wouldn't be surprised if they provoke the wrath of the crow lord soon.