Grok was constantly say it was doing something that it had ZERO ability to, and I kept calling it out and it kept apologizing and then immediately doing it again.

As a guy who spend 5 figures a year on Ai, the last thing I want is that. I know Claude and ChatGPT also do it, but Grok was doing it CONSTANTLY.

This will not end well.

Why is this a problem?

I do not want my software censoring anything I make.

Neoliberalism and liberalism are two totally different things.

That was six years ago and in many places the actual lockdown/remote learning was a year or less. It also goes way back before 2020. COVID may have impacted a small number of kids a specific age for a time but that was a long time ago now and kids have had plenty of time to adjust back to regular school.

It took awhile for things to catch up after the death of Flash, but there are still whole websites out there with bunches of little games that specifically advertise themselves as bypassing school blocking and being able to be used on school devices. I used to have a friend who was IT admin of a small school system and it was always a cat and mouse game trying to block all that. If they give kids access to the web at all in a way that isn't specifically allowlisted then they're going to find a way around stuff.

I semi-single-handedly caused half my high school AP Calc class to fail. We had TI-82s issued and I figured out getting Tetris, Solitaire, and a surprisingly capable Mario-esque game on mine and gave them to a couple friends. I didn't anticipate them figuring out how to transfer them to others because on a TI-82 it was a little trickier than later ones, but pretty soon most of the class had them. The teacher was a wonderful older woman who just didn't really understand technology at all and I have a distinct memory of one of the vice principals stopping by class just as part of wandering around and the teacher saying something like "They're always so diligently working on their calculators!"

It didn't take long for grades to tank and issues to crop up, and within a couple years of that the teachers learned to force students to wipe the calcs every couple days and keep an eye out for obvious off-label uses.

Ai will just shine the light on the class of workers who have make-work just that exist solely to push them to vote harder.

When we can let markets replace them, itâ(TM)ll be a tragedy for a few generations and then it will be forgotten.

One other aspect of this is modern production regarding mixing and mastering. Music is pushed so far to the edge that drums are basically cut off at the high end and the whole thing sounds mushy.

My wife, who knows nothing about any of this beyond enjoying music, asked me one evening while we were listening to "Fat Bottomed Girls" why the drums sound so good compared to other music that we listen to. It's noticeable.

I am anti copyright and have been all my life. I have created things of value and always dump them into the public domain.

Copyright infringes our rights to use our brain and voice and hands and body.

Fuck IP.

Federal regulations are stupid level: they are owned by lobbyists and megacorps.

Send this to the states.

Regulators should be afraid of weaponized Ai. So should censors. So should monopolists.

All of the things the State has done in the past 500 years has been corrupt and bureaucratic and caused harm. All. Not most, but all.

All of the people who supported it, from monopolists to lobbyists to activists caused harm.

Ai is undoing it all. Not piece by piece but all at once.

I, for one, can't wait to see folks zapped for restraining voluntary behavior.

This is why it's time to end social security.

I look at how much I've paid in over my life, and what it would be worth to me today EVEN IF you took out a lot to take care of the infirm and disabled.

There is no way that 65% of the population needs a full handout, but that's about what I'm paying.

I love this result.

Butâ¦I also saved for many decades and am fine living on my small catamaran catching fish and ignoring the world.

Sucks you all had to have the latest car and binge Netflix all those years.

I am a very lame producer, but I make really good money at it. It started as a hobby back in 2015.

I use Ai now with all our customers. We will NEVER hire anyone who has EVER used the word "SAG" in their resume or social media profile.

SAG => monopoly => control who can act => if you don't agree with SAG's politics, you can't act.

It's well past time to remove SAG from the market through market forces. Ai is absolutely AMAZING for my client base, they love being able to change the race, gender, location of a commercial with a few clicks.

I absolutely can't wait to send these SAG clowns packing.