No, the headline isnât a typo.
I didnât find the decision to be tough at all: I just disconnected my Echo after reading this. A little tiny bit sad only because I had it custom built into an antique wall phone that you speak into when lifting the receiver, but still, no regrets. I donât think Iâve used it for several months anyway.
Oh cool, canât wait for all the chemical structures on the web to include some variable quantity of mistakes because someone decided filling in details with guesses is ok if a computer is doing it.
They say alarming, I say expected
It can be both.
I never trusted their privacy claims to begin with, Iâve stayed away from these digital assistants with a 10ft pole.
I got an ad for google Gemini, and how you can use it to draft a blog post in seconds. Is that even a thing people want? Not to share anything or connect with anyone, but just post things a machine made, I guess in hopes other machines will rank your page higher? Do any of these AI people even remember what real humans are like? 
No, cause understanding people is woke⌠/s
Yeah, this shit is fucking depressing. I canât wait for the whole thing to fucking implode in on itselfâŚ
When their interactions with social media are
- predicated on Social Media being compulsory because thatâs how you succeed, thatâs what all the How To Succeed In Your Career blogs say,
- considered to be a game, where the goal is measured by followers/subscribers
- considered to be a game which you can lose, and where
- they see clickbait, ragebait, clickfarms, and shiny beautiful instagram people âwinningâ that game, and they have three subscribers, and one of them is their mother,
- like, 95% of all interactions on LinkedIn are or may as well be AI mediated anyway. (âGreat initiative,
$firstname! Congratulations!â)
Then, yeah, having an AI write their blog posts might seem like an improvement. Itâs not like they care who reads it, or what it says, just that it goes viral and that they win the internet.
And thus we get a future where the internet is made up of AIs writing glurge for other to AIs read.
I would be ok with having my writing looked at and get recommendations for improving the punctuation and flow. But ultimately I would want to pick and choose what to implement, because I would want it to sound like it came from me.
Nobody:
Microsoft: Notepad has AI integration now!
Itâs odd that, as a news organization itself, the Guardian didnât bother to point out that real journalism actually requires doing stuff out in the world that generative AI canât do, such as conducting new interviews and gathering new facts that donât currently exist anywhere online. Everything else is just regurgitating other peopleâs work. I can almost understand how terminally online techbros might not have grasped this basic reality, but a news organization certainly should.