I was thinking about this "AI" stuff . . .

[highplainsdem]

49. Okay, I'll give you an A+ for creativity just for writing a poem for a science communication workshop.

That's delightful.

As for ChatGPT picking up on what chemical you were referencing in that poem you wrote - most likely its training data had included some similar wording.

AI models are very good at spitting out poems. Or images. Or music.

But I can't get past the theft of the world's intellectual property, which is the only thing that makes genAI's output worth anything. It's the greatest theft in the history of information and culture, and it should not be ignored or forgiven. The AI companies should be sued out of existence, all the illegally trained AI models should be destroyed, and those responsible for the theft belong in prison. There's plenty of evidence that they were aware they were breaking the law. And the theft is ongoing.

OpenAI admitted in court filings that they couldn't make their AI work well with training data including only what's in the public domain plus what they're willing and able to pay for. The entire industry is built on theft and exploitation.

And when you consider that it dumbs users down, harms the natural environment, enshittifies the internet, worsens surveillance, and increases wealth inequality, the bad far outweighs any good it does.

If the AI bro loons behind it ever do manage to create superintelligent AI, it will be the dumbest and possibly the last scientific advance for humanity. They know that's a risk. But they're too caught up in their dream of becoming godlike to care about any harm AI does, or who gets hurt, if there's any chance at all a superintelligent AI will be so grateful to its creators that it will reward them.

Tech fascists believe they are going to merge with AI, live forever and colonize the universe as a species of self-replicating machines that eat the energy of the stars.

We can think big, too. Anything is possible. Don't let billionaires monopolize the power of radical imagination.

— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) 2025-12-07T21:12:40.760Z