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As the world embraces more and more artificial intelligence (AI) over the work of humans, it’s important to recognize some things are better left to the old fashioned human mind.
A recent “State of the Internet” report showed that 42% of all internet traffic is now attributed to AI bots and 65% of those bots are malicious. Scraper bots are commonly used for competitive intelligence and espionage, inventory hoarding, imposter site creation, and other nefarious schemes.
Are there drawbacks to human works? Of course! Humans are subject to influencing factors such as age, illness, injury, sleep disruptions, family emergencies, shifting priorities, schedule conflicts, torrential rains, heat, humidity, blizzards and wicked cold, as well as good old fashioned writer’s block.
AI doesn’t have those problems. It might have a little susceptibility to power outages, but that only comes into play if someone’s data center backup power fails. You just plug in your parameters, and it spits out the results based on its programming and the information it’s been fed to ‘learn’.
While many businesses are embracing AI for the operational efficiencies it creates, allowing them to reduce their reliance on human employees, the benefits to the creative industries such as art, music and writing are less impressive. AI gaffs on American history and images of people, objects and places have been nothing short of epic.
The problem is the human factor in encoding and teaching the various AI programs. While the introduction of a little bias is probably expected, programmatically introducing woke ideology, one extreme wing of the political spectrum, and fabricated works of cultural fiction are inevitably going to produce radically one sided results presented as “fact”.
Does this mean all writers should go back to using a manual typewriter to avoid any technology bias? Oh hell no! Word processors, spell check and grammar checking tools are definitely the writer’s best friends. Tools like this are merely applying simple structure rules against the writer’s creative thoughts. Of course, I don’t always take that advice anyway since many times the ‘proper’ way doesn’t always sound like something I’d say or write.
Why do I bring this AI BS up? Because I could produce many more articles in a timelier fashion if I embraced AI. If I fed all my previous articles in, along with my research from c:\OddStuffing folder, I could simply request a two page article on say ‘The Importance of the Second Amendment Today’ and be done with this week’s post.
But that wouldn’t be me. That wouldn’t be what I’m thinking, the emotions I’m feeling on the topic at that moment in time, recent interactions I’ve had with others or my passion (a.k.a. expressed as rambling) for the topic, all things that shape not only what I write but how I write it.
There is a side of me that would like to try using AI for a pro Second Amendment article if for no other reason than to see how badly it would turn out, but that’s not where my interests are.
So if I don’t post something for a while, it doesn’t mean my enthusiasm for the Second Amendment has faded, I’ve given up writing about the threats we are facing or I simply don’t care anymore. It only means that one or more of the aforementioned human influencing factors has occurred and my attention was temporarily required else ware.
We all need to pay attention to what is going on and do our part to make the situation better. We also need to understand that outsourcing the things that are most important to someone or something else may not produce the desired results.
Bob (?)
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