Random Happenstance

Sometimes I wonder how much of this blog has been scraped by AI trawlers, and I guess we'll find out when AI really starts abusing ellipses, or using any of the recurring bits of nonsense I do, like "some time back" or "not that one!" I probably haven't mentioned it before, but I do hate so-called "generative AI" since it doesn't really generate anything, there's no 'intelligence' involved, and a lot of times it's not even 'artificial' since the work is merely farmed out somewhere. The program just takes a ton of data, and when asked something pieces together a response more-or-less resembling answers it has seen for that question before. Where have I seen that done before...

Page from the Ren & Stimpy Show #2, "Ask Dr. Stupid" Written by Dan Slott, art by Mike Kazeleh. Dr. Stupid (Stimpy) shows how comics are made: by cutting up old comics, and pasting the pictures in a new order! Just like AI! 

AI always feels, like a waste, on top of waste: you can use it to write emails, that will then be sorted by your recipient's AI and summarized but not read, with an autogenerated response, using real electricity and water and hardware at each step. If you can't be bothered to write or draw or create something, why would anyone be compelled to read it? Anyway, you have this blog's promise that it'll be hand-crafted nonsense for as long as I go. I suppose technically the action figure stuff isn't 'hand-crafted,' but no AI anyway.