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Complaining about AI again
Have had troubles focusing on writing since I wrote about Writing Atrophy two weeks ago but here we go. Let’s complain about AI. Again.
I’ve done it twice before. Why I hate Generative AI and The Cataclysm.
It surprised me the other day when I saw someone do what someone correctly identified was “Roko’s Basilisk meets end stage capitalism” which, you know what, I should probably detail what that is.
The Mask of Roko’s Basilisk
Roko’s Basilisk is a concept where an artificial superintelligence, greater in intelligence of humanity, would turn itself on anyone who dared delay its existence. Essentially punishing those who didn’t create it fast enough. This concept is basically a Pascal’s wager. If this is possible, you should now work hard towards creating your artificial superintelligence overlord so it shines positively towards you.
Now, what was a person doing that got called out to this? Why nothing other than judging people saying “clanker” because one day generative AI might be smart enough to see you saying it in your internet posting history and judge you for it. Judge you using a slur against “them”
bsky isnt ready for this but, if you need a reason to not use words like "clanker" that isn't "well its kinda not a great thing to do" (it isn't) imagine this:future model that has you in its training data, knows you posted that word online with joy, and denies your insurance claim as a result
Now Hailey might be joking. I honestly don’t care anymore. “I’m doing a bit and you fell for it” cool beans. You still expressed dumb things online for everyone to react to.
Also, let me step aside for a second. Have you ever recognized how a lot of the arguments for generative AI sound like someone explaining how they are going to rape you? You gotta take it. You deserve it. It’s better this way. You can’t stop it.
Anyway.
I don’t really buy she is joking since she’s in the past cried about the people who talk about “keep bullying” as “the bad ones” and I mean that’s part of my schtick. Bullying works.
“Bullying works” isn’t actually bullying. It’s about staying vigilant on someone who cries “I’m being bullied” when just being held to a proper standard by society.
Anyway I’ve rambled. Like I said, scrambly brain right now. The entire point of this is about calling AI “slurs” and how that makes you a bad person.
The problem is there’s only one person involved here. The person saying the words. The generative AI is not a person. Not only is it not a person. It’s usually a corporation using generative AI to try and replace the aesthetic of a person. It’s double layered inhumanity.
“Corporations are people too” has essentially failed so now corporations are using generative AI to now push “generative AI are people” and you’re supposed to police yourself around the AI. It’s the same as corporations are people. It’s just a new way to get to that result.
The whole reason certain folks are pushing this empathy point is because "businesses are people too" failed so now they can run "generative AI pretending to be people are people too" which is connected directly to businesses. This is not slick. It's just a corporate rebrand.
— Aaron Wrotkowski (@aaron.wrotkowski.ca) 2026-08-25T20:24:12.380Z
I’m not going to waste my time on anyone trying to wave a finger about saying bad things about generative AI. “Oh you’re actually the bad person you tried to make up an offensive slur towards an LLM” no the bad person is the one who created the LLM and tried to apply it over having a real person.
And yes, I’m going right down the ethical argument here. Pushing these LLM’s and generative AI makes you a bad human being. You are hurting society. You are hurting humanity.
I don’t fear generative AI. I don’t fear LLM’s. I fear the rich. I fear the lazy. I fear lazy people in power thinking they can cut corners and save money and still create a human experience, and then forcing that experience on people.
“If it was opt in, nobody would opt in.”
Sinners was a great analogy to the current generative AI vampires
In the 2025 film Sinners, there’s vampires. They are not entirely bad people. They are not racists (see how Remmick responds being asked if y’all are klan) and they hold none of the grudges of our current society. They just want everyone to be like them. They want to assimilate everyone. They want everyone part of their culture. That’s not so bad right? Everyone accepted because they all join together? Isn’t that what we want? To live forever, never feel pain like we used to, everything is easier, and everyone feels love.
Except it isn’t love. It’s a curse. It’s a loss of your identity. There’s nothing created through it. There’s only the constant rape and pillage of existing art and culture regurgitated into a bucket of slop that resembles what people wanted to generate. It’s also rarely a choice but foisted upon you by the vampire. Once the fangs sunk in and you’ve turned you have no choice but to accept your vampire existence. Or let someone intentionally murder you.
In defence of AI slop: we should embrace open access to creativity, not condemn itLook past the Donald Trump superhero memes and the new software gives us the chance to democratise creative production. No wonder art’s cultural gatekeepers are worried✍️ Jack Rileyhttps://bit.ly/3SpzFQ4
— The Observer (@theobserveruk.bsky.social) 2026-08-23T10:30:03.197481074Z
“We should embrace open access to creativity” is as much of a lie as the vampires collective culture. It isn’t an open access to creativity. Creativity is instinctively using your own brain to come up with something. It isn’t taking a machine to crush, rip, split, and distort the creations of others to generate whatever you prompted.
The overwhelming majority of the stuff being made is shit. It’s not creative. It’s derivative. Not just derivatives to what already exists but derivatives of themselves!
Here! I took five minutes to look around at some AI flyers on Facebook to see how many repeated the scratch font.
We got a nautical themed bar using what’s essentially a motorcross/wrestling/extreme font to say they got a Saturday burger special. Burger looks disgusting since it isn’t real. Then you got a sidewalk music event (I can almost let this slide because one could argue it’s to resemble sidewalk chalk but you can find a font for that!) and we got scratch font for this band of old guys. Then we have SCRATCH FONT FOR ICE CREAM. And finally scratch font for a mixology class?
All of these applications of it are stupid when you see a scratch logo in its proper habitat and environment such as a 90s comic book
But the real problem isn’t the font. It’s that THEY ARE ALL USING THE FONT. Their free (or pay by token) LLMs are spitting out the same shit and every time they say “good enough”
And that’s what really pisses me off.
From the time I was in high school to the time I was in college to the time I worked jobs in professions that properly paid taxes it was imperative, it was important, it was NECESSARY to be correct. Correct design. Correct words. No mistakes. No errors. Professional.
I designed websites. I designed social media art. I designed broadcast graphics. Any of which that had glaring mistakes I’d be punished and potentially fired for.
Now? Just generate it. “good enough” and it’s gone.
And yes I’ve heard the “one day” bullshit. “One day it will be exact! All names correct! All words correct! Voice exact! The technology will be correct!” then why the fuck are you using it now? Why are you not waiting for that? Why are you not editing what was made to fix the mistakes?
It’s not about the final product anymore. It’s about being impressed by the magic of it being generated at all.
@edzitron.com had it on the money here
I’m watching restaurants have no pride in the food they make anymore just telling a computer to generate their food. I’m watching coders pretend it’s saving them time in creating code but then never knowing how to correct anything that goes wrong. I’m hearing how Dr. Dre, a guy who fought Napster because he said it stole money from his pocket, embrace AI to steal from him because they paid him to embrace it. These lazy fucking vampires, most of them with nothing left to live for, think they are saving themselves time. They are not.
Never Lose Sight
Small businesses doing this stuff is annoying but they are merely closer to you so they feel like the problem. They are a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
Small businesses, as much as they are important, have always been full of lazy corner cutting owners who just want to own a boat even if it means a less functioning business. No all of them, just the lazy ones. You’ll never rid the world of lazy people. In fact, it’s not the lazy people at the bottom you actually have to worry about.
Of course lazy people will embrace a lazy technology. Generative AI, LLM’s, their entire goal is to hook everyone to the point where they can turn it into a utility. You have to pay for the internet. You now have to pay for your LLM subscription to survive. Can’t work without it. Can’t function without it.
Google has intentionally broken their own search engine so people now ask their AI bots for advice and information. Prior to google breaking their search engine you could properly cite sources. Now everything is just, “well the bot told me I don’t know. It’s gotta know right?”
Never lose sight that the real problem are the people at the top who are pushing this. Your government leaders. The billionaires of the world. Yes, they get actors and musicians to sell this stuff. No different to any other product. The problem is that they were allowed to essentially destroy art and society in order to do it.
Ever heard of Project Panama?
Most haven’t, oddly enough. Anthropic (Claude) was founded only in 2021 and was claiming to be promoting AI safety. In reality they were buying books, rare books, hard to find books, and physically destroying them to provide training data for Claude. They settled for $1.5 billion. Those books are destroyed forever.
Claude was used in the Iran War. Claude was used in the U.S. intervention of Venezuela. Claude refused to permit unrestricted use to the U.S. government and people pretended that made him the good guys. There are no good guys here. Twitter’s Grok has literally been used to kill people through Project Maven, which not only uses Claude and Grok but also Amazon’s AWS servers.
That’s the real evil of all of this. This is just a way for billionaires and the most powerful people in the world to control you, to make you dumber, to make you less capable, to erode your capacity to stop them, and if you live in the wrong part of the world? To murder you under the fog of war.
Never lose sight that this isn’t humans versus AI. It’s once again the have’s versus the have not’s. The ultra rich versus the ultra poor.
But hey. I’m the bad guy for saying clanker.
Shame on me.
Photo from Terminator Salvation, 2009.
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