Digital Deception

How dishonest are you?

I don't like AI content. I don't want to have to read AI- generated comments on my post. And, I don't want to vote on most AI-generated content.

So knowing this, if you are using AI to generate content or comments and I am voting on you, are you going to a) stop using AI tools, b) mark your content as AI generated, c) stop commenting on my posts, d) keep on using AI in the hope for votes.

So?

If you choose option D, go take a look in the mirror at yourself and recognize what you are:

Dishonest.

After all, if you have managed to read the first few lines, you will have read that I explicitly don't want to vote on AI-generated content. So if you persist, you are doing it knowingly, looking to deceive me, all for a vote.

Telling, isn't it?

In my opinion, AI-generated content is very low value, no matter what it says or depicts. But when people are using it for comments, it is absolutely shameful, because it takes the personal out of it. In my opinion, there should be no shadow of a doubt as to whether a comment is AI or not, because of the way it is written, and this should be even more evident over time. However, while I generally give the benefit of doubt for a bit, at some point, I will just stop interacting with them completely. Maybe even flag.

I find AI-generated content pathetic.

Well, that is not true. I find the people who believe that creating content using AI tools, makes them creative, pathetic. I know, there are some people who make some very cool-looking images using AI software, but I don't find it very creative at all, and not skillful. Perhaps it is because I am a bit older and come from a time where people had to actually do something themselves, they needed to have a skill, they needed to have something to trade. Where is the trade in AI-generated content?

Where is the human?

This sounds a lot like a rant, but we live in a world where convenience is the driving factor. So, people are using tools of all kinds to make their lives easier. But, it is not just that, because the tools can do what they can't do themselves. They can write better than the user, they can draw better than the user, they can animate better than the user, they can do pretty much anything better than the user.

Where is the human input?

I hear justification after justification of why people use it, but what it actually comes down to, is that they realize that with the skills they have, the resources they have, They can't compete with the AI. So, they use it to make themselves feel better about themselves, and pretend that they are the ones with agency, that they are the creatives behind the result. And as a result, they are making themselves even more irrelevant, more useless, less experienced.

You don't have to agree with me.

I don't really care what you do, or how you do it, but I don't want to support it. So, if you are using AI, let me know and I will stop voting on your content, whether post or comment. If you are reading this, using AI and don't let me know and I happen to vote on you, know that you are being deceptive. And then take a look in the mirror and know without a doubt, that is the kind of person you are.

I don't care what your justifications are for using generative AI tools.

It is hard to avoid using AI these days, I use it too, because when I take a photo, there are automations going on in the camera, then when I edit a photo I have taken, there are more automations, AIs at work to remove a spot, but this is a bit different, isn't it?

One of the things that I have always maintained through my blog, is me. It is my blog, no one or nothing else's. There is not another person on earth that could have created the same content I have, as each photo comes f rom my life, each edit is made by me, every experience that led to a story is mine, and every word I write has come from my mind, my thoughts, my hands.