I read X (Twitter) and sometimes post on there. I also have a notesfromthecactuspatch on Facebook, so I visit that site once in a while. What bothers me nowadays, well, every day 24-7, is the amount of false information on all the social media sites. Nothing is confirmed, and any dipwad with an account can put out any form of disinformation they dream up, and folks believe it as gospel. Does King Charles hate Trump? Doubt it. Does the PM of Italy hate him? I doubt that one, too. So who, and what do we believe? The MSM legacy media is so full of crap you can’t believe anything on the evening news, not even on Fox or Newsmax, so where does that leave us people who actually know how to read a newspaper and decipher the real world from the world of AI, which WordPress uses a lot for spelling and punctuating. AI scares me because not only does it know more than I do, but also because so much of it is incorrect. This post is not intended to be funny, but seriously worrisome. I’ll check back with ya’ll later. Have a good day, and ask Grok to cook you a good supper. The Texan.
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So true! I use AI to help me create images that go with my stories. Beyond that, I don’t get involved. I’ve seen some stuff on YouTube and Facebook which is highly suspect and the only way to stay safe and sane is to have as little to do with AI as possible.
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Old people scare easily, so I try and stay away it’s usually wrong from what little info I have tried to gleam from it.
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I am not a product of AI. I grew up before we called it AI, but the desire to rely on technology to make our daily lives easier is older than you or I, Phil. I grew up with television and while I sat through hours of mind numbing slime (reference to the Frank Zappa tune) growing up, I watched Twilight Zone fire my imagination and thinking process. Yes, I owe much more to my parents and grandparents teaching me how to think, to love to think, and to wallow in the independence that thinking allowed.
These days I watch a lot of programmatic tv. Gunsmoke, for example, is structured and obvious and rarely invokes much thought. But what I see is not so much how Marshall Dillon wins the day in each episode because of course I know he (or one of the other regular characters) will. No, I watch and revel in how they do it, how frequently they use the same string of characters, how the details make the show more than what we would expect. Many years ago I met Strother Martin. I am continually amazed at just how great he was. I like NCIS not for the plots but for the way they color the characters.
I read blogs where old timers make fun of the silliness that is the present day and honor all that is heartwarming and important about the old fiddle.
No, I am not a product of AI. I write macros, a less oblique form of AI, and have for 40 years. I appreciate that the computer can assist us in many ways. But despite the claims, the computer will never think. It can learn patterns, but that is not thinking.
As for social media, I need only look back to the discussions of so many warning about the masses, the long standing fear of the mob.
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WordPress is now fully engulfed in AI. It does help with misspellings and such, but I am reluctant to try any more than that. Lately, Momo and I have been watching more streaming movies and series on Amazon, Paramount Plus and Apple TV. I often watch the old shows too: Rawhide, Gunsmoke, I Dream of Jeanie
(what boy didn’t?). The one no one talks about is All IN The Family, The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son. There was some great tv back then, but today’s stuff is almost embarrassing, and I avert my eyes to keep from turning to salt. Momo is addicted to Wheel of Fortune and is better than 99 percent of the contestants. I’ll never use it as some of the best selling authors have admitted too. I bet Hemingway and Steinbeck are frothing like a mad dog.
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Democrats put their No Kings protest on hold in order to applaud King Charles III during the joint session of Congress. Go figure.
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Charles gave a good speech, much better than I expected, but deep in his DNA, he is a bit of a socialist or he would have stepped into the fray when the Muslims took over the UK and put the PM in his place. Perhaps his son will do better, even though they don’t wield the power the royals once had.
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Good points, Phil. I agree 100% on all of the BS that’s on social media anymore – mostly Facebook. Unless it’s genuine posts by family and/or friends, I just scroll by. The more you stop to read or check out the other stuff, the more you get of it in your feed. The sad thing is, so many people believe and reshare this stuff that it has taken over. I also agree about the “news” outlets. None of them are reliable anymore.
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I share your concerns, Phil.
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