AI can be a great and terrible thing. But, I feel like AI in its current form is crap, companies trying to shove it into everything possible like AI lawn mowers. Why stick a computer in a lawn Mower that tries to use GPS that ends up killing your neighbors roses when you can use markers on your lawn. AI coffee pots? no give me a power button damn it. Web browsing is been enshittified to make the AI browsing more “effective”. In the past you could search something on google without 10 pages of garbage because the search results were vetted, Checked and than indexed by computer.

The problem with AI is it is centralized, We have to ask one machine. We have to ask one machine to talk to another machine to talk to the software that talks to another machine that turns on a light bulb. It is this fragmented centralization we pay the devils due to. By saying hey _____ turn on the light, The machine took your input, checked your associations figured out which company owns the light bulb , gave up your data , gave up usage and likely sniffed your network just to make a 5000 mile trip halfway across the world to turn on your light bulb less than 10 feet from you. By the time you weigh out your privacy cost your cool colorful light bulb sniffed your network or your bluetooth and found you have a bluetooth vibrator in your house. The app that controls your light bulb is now giving your personal massager ads now.

Now that i firmly have shit on centralized AI, I need to make the opposite argument for AI. Having a deeply centralized machine to an intuitive person can be amazing. Research that was done with hours of pouring over google, bing, Yahoo because they all index differently, with a side dish of wikipedia’s articles with the comments on wiki took hours, Now with AI you can ask the question have AI either excerpt it or in my case show me point of view that conflict each other to get a more whole perspective on thing is great. but, There is one caveat, Vet your research, do not assume AI is always right . Just like a librarian your helpful AI will bring you boundless information on your subject of research, but if your AI librarian gets confused just like the human can give you output that makes you go what the fuck? But if you properly vet your research (meaning: check its work) with the AI , It can find information that before would take hours between 3 search engines 1 online encyclopedia and 3 cups of coffee, you spent your day researching on the failures of the “streaming industry” and you’ve barely started your work. Now with AI you can work AI as a vetted peer researcher, you can tell it when it is wrong. The websearch that was the past took know how of using the web search keys like “” – + that 99% of people do not use.

Where my final thoughts here is… Do we need a centralized AI? Yes and NO. Why because centralized information for an AI makes for great research. But does my home device need to connect to that to turn on a light? Fuck no , that device should use a cut down version of the AI locally that only knows how to turn on lights , Adjust your heat and the other simple joys around the house, If you have a AI coffeepot or teapot Call me when you can do “Tea Earl Grey hot” or “coffee whole milk, semi sweet”. Only when decentralized AI does not understand the query should it ever “phone home” .

Sometimes, with AI the same goes for image generation, It is useful, but right now its just massive shitposting. If I as a photoshop user want to save several hours making an image I will annotate to the AI the image I want but I will not take any claim to it . I wont hide the tagging Gemini puts on the image because it is a time saver to me. And a lot of the times I let the image generation do what it wants because sometimes its funny as hell to watch the smaller hallucinations of a peer check on an article play out in the image. In my life if an AI saves me an hour creating an image I will let it come up with something. In my real life with my canon camera I will never let AI touch an image I take, I prefer nature and the perfect chaos that real life is to capture the best image. I prefer a natural smile to an AI “fixed” image. they look plastic.

So while you may read into my visions to AI as hate , its more like critique for a better world where information is not sold but given to make us better as people. Otherwise whole saleing information behind locked doors just makes us look as bad as the 1100s.

This post is long and if you have got this far without AI summarizing it for you, Enjoy your next sip of coffee and give pat yourself on the back. Im proud of you.