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Really important read about something that is going to become a part of our everyday lives within the next few months:

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

As with most things in our society I don't believe many see the danger in things until it effects them personally. AI is something that may be too big to control at this point.

The fact that something even has that capability is laughable and alarming at the same time.

I work in a technological job and I write software. I began learning programming right around the same time I joined this message board, and my hobby\passion eventually turned into a career where I now make things for a corporate entity instead of myself. Slowly I've noticed that people are using more of these AI tools at work and I find it deeply disturbing. Some of them are using it to make skeleton methods, interfaces, or outlines of code at a high level. Others engage and turn it on to take automatic dictation during a meeting and cobble together some sort of half assed summary and plan of actions that a human could have just as easily written.

The most interesting part is how accepting some people are to use these tools and not ask questions. Like, why are people trusting a machine to output your own words? I wouldn't. Why would I need a piece of software to type my own words for me? What if it makes a change in what I'm trying to say? Or it changes a phrase it sees as an "improvement", but isn't really an improvement, its to put it more in line with how it thinks it should be said. Maybe I want my words to be imperfect in a certain way to express a particular kind of emphasis on purpose. There's no objections from these people, they're just drinking it all in and are completely fine with it!!! That is crazy! To me it borders on laziness, plagiarism, and lying. It has no integrity. In the present moment I will not and will never use an AI tool for as long as I live, even if that means quitting my career.

And I have prior experience in AI too. Back around 2013 when I was at University I began working in the computer science department where I built my own system to figure out the gender of a Twitter user among other things. I had my big data, training sets, learning algorithms, measuring for accuracy, chi square, bayesian classifiers, the whole nine yards. We published a research paper and I gave a speech at the University of Kentucky. Now seeing all of this mass adoption of AI scares me because I went into Computer Science to help people. The key word is "Help", not replace, lessen, cheapen, or diminish their role. Now someone could make the argument that some advancements may help. Yes, that is true, but I believe we've already passed that balancing point where now they have become a detriment. The simplest example I have right now is going through a drive thru and you're speaking to a robot rather than a human. What even is that? Who wants that type of service? I want the full human experience and everything that comes with it!!! The happy accidents, the mess ups, the apologies, the extra nuggets, free fries, or no fries!!!!

You don't know how much human interaction means until one day you don't have it. The warmth of someone's voice or slight laugh during a phrase can make a difference. And what seems like just another person's routine saying of "Have a great day" might mean a great deal to the person in the car who is struggling.

j/c:

I thought this was interesting:

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

https://fortune.com/2026/02/11/something-big-is-happening-ai-february-2020-moment-matt-shumer/

i love Technology... I like seeing advancements.

But like all tech before this, we need a watchdog to make sure it doesn't hurt us more than it helps us.

I don't trust this administration to oversee anything. Trump has proven over and over again that he cannot be trusted..He will do what's best for himself and his family and his wealthy buddies. The rest of us are not worth his time.

It's already being used to change perception of reality.

Geesh

What part don't you understand

What part makes you think Ballpeen does or doesn't understand?

I don't really see why this is directly a politics story (though I realized I was the one who posted it here).

Yes - I think Donald Trump will do a terrible job handling the AI revolution - because he will focus it all on "what is good for me at this very moment". However, I think that Democrats would also do this. The US stance in general seems to be "Well, this is going to be really bad, and so it is important we do it before China". I think that the developers at OpenAI and Grok and others are following the same calculation "This might be really bad, and so we need to do it first." -- Perplexity gets a little benefit for doing this **slightly** less bad than other companies.

But bunching this in with standard US vs. Them stories is not a good thing. We've seen the effect of this in other regimes like Climate Change - where there is real science going on, and then we politicized it so now we can't do anything --- but maybe this is fresh enough that we don't have to draw the same battle lines this time.

It's certainly political but not strictly towards any one given political party. The issue is we have a bunch of septuagenarians and octogenarians running things in Washington D.C who have no clue on this topic or ideas on what to do about it.

If there were ever a good argument for term limits this would be a shining example of it.

Geesh