AI take #1

This time, it was the robot. This pseudo-cute looking monstrosity the latest silicon delusionaire dreamt up and chucked onto a Shopify page. This is what unraveled the rage built up over years of being subject to this generation of tech swindling that has infected every conversation I’ve had that wasn’t about Donald “Everything is Computer” Trump.

Here is my message to Mr Altman and his gang of con-men friends:

We. Don’t. Want your stupid robo-shit. We don’t want your “assistant” or whatever dumb suspiciously-female-coded name you give it. We don’t want to spend our days hypnotized by pretty lights and fake friends through a little box 2 inches from our face. We want out of that hellscape you and your ever-so-brave, pathologically anti-social forebearers foisted upon us ten years ago with the innovation of Pocket TV.

You know what really bothers me? The “inventions” you virgins cribbed from science fiction are so blatantly evil and bad for society I can’t help but feel this is all a big joke. I find it hard to believe Jensen Huang can, with a straight face, with eyes gleaming toward the future, unveil a literal army of robots and think to himself “wow we really are making the world a better place”. The only read that makes any sense is these people don’t give a shit about the future, and they know their inventions are stupid. oh wow what an original take you say. OK, fine, enough with diagnosis, you’re on my side then.

What to do?

My friend, it’s so easy: stop using ChatGPT. Don’t download Sora. Shame anyone who sends you AI slop. Reject useless Gemini summaries, hollow LLM-ified emails, “helpful” AI summaries. Just don’t fuck with any of this bullshit. There’s 8 billion of us and 0 of them, up to a rounding error.

No more future. More present.

(Sorry if that was corny)