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I think artificial intelligence is a super cool technology. I also think that the current implementations are the worst possible thing that could have happened to the world right now.

AI, in its current state, is FAR too overblown. Most "AI" implementations are not true AI; rather, they are all implementations of the same base concept of an LLM. This is not "intelligence;" it is prediction. And while large language models are super cool on their own, the fact that I can't even use the computer that I BOUGHT with MY MONEY without having Copilot shoved in my face is completely ridiculous. Seriously, guys, this is why people switch to Linux.

And I don't necessarily blame the people who use modern "AI" (LLM) and swear that it's the future for this belief (there are exceptions to this rule; people such as vibe coders who generate their work and then place it on the same quality tier as real programming piss me off). There's not a doubt in my mind that AI is the future; it's just that what we have right now ISN'T ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE!! The people who truly believe that it is are woefully uneducated and I would like nothing more than to have them educated of this.

In the current state of the world where megacorpos control almost everything, AI is literally impossible to escape. Believe me, I've tried numerous times. These corporations will not listen to anyone other than their shareholders, and the shareholders are telling them to shove AI down our throats. In the span of only about a year, I've seen almost every service that I frequently utilize (or utilized, seeing as I stopped using several of them specifically due to presence of "AI") forcefully integrate "AI" into their process somehow; Github, Windows, MacOS, Replit, Youtube, Amazon, and Google are just a couple of them (but not wasteof.money! We love you wasteof.money).

Some of these implementations are pretty concerning, too. Microsoft Copilot is one of the scarier things that I've seen develop in the last couple years. I mean seriously, a built-in AI chatbot that has bare metal access to your entire system and that you cannot uninstall without editing your registry?? In what universe does that sound like a good idea?? Absolutely nobody asked for this, and, coincidentally, I don't know a single person that has ever used Copilot even once. Similarly, the Big Brother potential of Copilot is staggering; if the government asked them to, who's to stop Microsoft from making Copilot constantly analyze your screen for content they don't like? Who's to stop them from making it analyze your filesystem and report the presence "concerning" files? And, of course, we can't forget the kids. It's all in the name of protecting the kids. Surprise! If you can't be bothered to come home from your gold-studded office to raise your kids OR if you have any grandchildren (e.g. you're old and don't know how modern technology works), you are NOT ALLOWED TO SAY "THINK OF THE CHILDREN."

Anyway, those are my thoughts. Personally, I think that AI does not have a position in any kind of workplace, including schools, but that is a whole other mess.

[enduser@3xion.dev takes] $ cd ..