Fitter, happier, more productive
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat, tied to a stick
That's driven into frozen winter shit

Hey at least they didn't just put a dog in a suit to make it look like a robot.

These kinds of AI fluff pieces are all about trying to assuage their investors' fears. Don't worry, it seems to say: we're at the cutting edge, and no we won't be replaced by a vibe-coded app anytime soon. It could be true, it could be all made up, but it doesn't matter as long as their shareholders feel good.

> Next they will be interrogating humans in torture chambers to train their models. I'm calling it now.

They already are. It's called "social media."

"ChatGPT can you 'asplain this here code thingy?"

You can still do that, you just need to jump through some hoops
- Disable app execution aliases for notepad.exe
- Uninstall the new notepad "app"
- Your old notepad application will be restored. It was never removed, and still lurks quietly in the C:\Windows\System32 folder.

This is UAC all over again. It just results in more pop-up blindness.

Yet another "This application wants to blah blah blah..." Click Accept

There's a reason "windows uac disable" is the first suggested search result when you type in windows uac.

Is this going to happen before, or after I retire?

This reminds me of an article I read about non-electric can openers. https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/...

Just in case a hurricane, tornado, or nuclear war does ever leave you in need of some serious manual can-opening, it wouldn't hurt to know how to use one.

I don't know what this Discord is, but maybe we can exchange ICQ numbers?

To those who don't know, Safer Internet Day is today, February 10th, 2026... according to Google.

Let's be fair... They don't go to a landfill, they get shipped to India to be burned.

Yes it's always an option. There's rarely a reason to enable it unless your workplace forces it on.

I don't think there's any requirement that a publisher disclose the use of AI tools. You just have to trust them. For now, at least, it should be easy to tell that something is AI-generated because it gets repetitive and inconsistent. However, if you use it as a tool just for filling in pre-planned blocks of text and with careful editing, I bet you could "write" something formulaic in record time and not have to disclose anything to your readers.

At least Audible has a good return policy, so if you find something is obvious AI you can get your credit back.