Where I am on "AI"

There have been many drafts of this page, but I find myself unable to really communicate my stance without falling back on profanity.

So.

Fuck the LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and the rest. Fuck the complete gobshite pissweasel fascist techbros behind this absolute mess. And especially fuck them for adulterating the term "AI" so that legitimate techniques are tarred with the same brush as their massively wasteful LLM chatbots.

The whole enterprise of the LLM chatbot companies is based on theft, deception, wholesale violations of legal and social contracts, DDoS attacks on websites, and massive harms to the environment, society, individual cognitive function, and the future of multiple industries due to deskilling and disruption of entry-level training.

I have to protect my servers against the attacks from their crawlers, spending time, effort, and resources to handle the bloody things while I watch the increasingly inflated bubble hurtle towards its inevitable crash as the true costs involved and the utter lack of any path to profitability becomes impossible for the investors to ignore.

I can not, and will not, support any part of it and if you use their shit kindly do us both a favour and sod off.

I will not set aside my moral and ethical objections to a technology out of convenience to replace cognitive exercise with a gambling-addiction-adjacent make-up-statistically-probable-bullshit machine churning out mediocre crap and peddled by a cabal of suppurating fistulas.

Or, put another way: I do not use generative AI in any way for any part of my site, games, or other programs, and I avoid using any tools or programs that include content created using generative AI where possible.

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