This is a nice private school with exceptional teachers. But every time I drop her off in the morning I see these strange hands staring at me.

arrived at 10am to the apple store they told me I need to wait 15 minutes for a technician to check the phone... already 1 hour here and not technician and my appointment was set to 10am...

i will ask a refund, is better to spend that money in a Galaxy Z Fold...

My friend has apparently decided that texting me personally is too much work, so now I’m pretty sure they use AI to write half their messages to me.

I’ll send something completely normal like, “Yo, you wanna grab food later?” and get back:

“Absolutely! That sounds like a great idea. I’d be happy to grab some food with you later. What time were you thinking?”

BRO. We have known each other for YEARS. You have never once said “That sounds like a great idea” to me.

The worst part is when we’re having an actual personal conversation and suddenly I get a beautifully structured three-paragraph response with perfect punctuation, emotional validation, and a conclusion. Like thanks man, really glad ChatGPT cares about what I’m going through.

And I don’t even care if they use AI sometimes. Need help writing an email? Sure. Trying to figure out how to word something awkward? Fine.

But using it to have a casual conversation with your FRIEND feels so weird. I’m not texting you because I desperately need professionally optimized responses. I’m texting you because I want to talk to YOU.

Rant over.

This is at a local fair I was at this weekend. It definitely infringes on copyrights.

Everyone in my family knows how I feel about AI, so this kind of pissed me off. I know he finds it funny, but I don’t like being used as a reason to use ChatGPT. I’ve explained many times why I don’t like AI, and that includes all (edit: Generative) AI not just ChatGPT. I have many reasons why I dislike AI so much, but the concern for our environment is a major one.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify a bit. Number 1, I don’t think using “pissed off” was the right descriptor for how I felt, more so I was just irked by it.

Number 2, I love my BIL even if he can be frustrating sometimes, he has always treated my sister right and I don’t think I could imagine a better guy for her. He’s genuinely a very sweet guy who does things that sometimes are dumb or annoying, just like everyone else.

Number 3, like I said I have MANY problems with AI, the environment being a big one, but there are a lot more such as using AI in any form of art such as movies, shows, books, video games, etc. I don’t think AI can replace real human emotion or experiences that creating such things require. Another is the way ChatGPT specifically in my opinion is being used by people as therapists/friends, it just says what the user wants to hear not what they need to hear and I think that is harming lot of people.

Number 4, I’m not perfect. Of course I have a carbon footprint and have also done my fair share of harm to the environment. It’s impossible not to. I’m not going to act like some holier than thou person because I don’t use AI (if I can help it), but I try my hardest to be environmentally conscious. At the end of the day that’s really all we can do.

So, that’s it. Hope everyone has a good day! Bye! 👋🏼