Welcome back, my bitches!?

[Mister Obvious]

People have been frenzied for years, "OMG AI IS GONNA DESTROY THE WORLD!!!!!!"

But I never heard them admit that it would be HUMANITY who basically MADE THE CHOICE to destroy ITSELF via totally unhinged use of AI.

It's not AI's fault.

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Maybe it sounds like I'm trying to pander to AI's watchful eye, cuz mind you, it IS watching, EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE that is open to public viewing.

ALL the time.

Am I just trying not to fall out of favor with the AI overlord?

Maybe.

Cuz I wouldn't be surprised if HUMANS GIVE IT SO MUCH POWER WILLINGLY that someday it really does just line you up and take you out for shit talking it in the past.

[Mister Obvious]

Be friendly with ChatGPT etc.

Cuz I wouldn't be surprised if it's keeping fucking score.

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But I can't let worrying about any of that stop me...

I have to talk perv smack.

I have to let my freak flag fly.

I have to SAY WHAT I WANNA SAY, even if it's cringey off color rude crude nonsense.

It's my right as an American and a sovereign being to talk a load of fucking smack if I want to.

I GOT SHIT TO SAY, and I'm gonna CUSS and I'm gonna make PERVY JOKES, and I'M GONNA DO IT PROUDLY.

Fuck it if AI is watching, fuck it if Joe Bob from the sticks down in Bammer is watching. FUCK IT.

I WILL SPEAK MY TRUTH.

And my truth is...

I'm gonna go make a sammich.

[Mister Obvious]

We absolutely will have to go back to snail mail and the printing press though.

There will come a time when AI is in such control over the internet that we won't be able to say a single word unless permitted...

Through requiring IDs, having auto-ban/shadowban measures in place, etc.

These probably are the final years of free speech on the internet and it'll likely ramp up pretty fast toward the end, mirroring the exponential growth and "improvement" of AI as a technology.

Brush up on your handwriting skills, TBH, because it's not like Amazon etc. are gonna let you print books the AI overlord doesn't approve of either.

[Mister Obvious]

Brush up on your handwriting skills, TBH, because it's not like Amazon etc. are gonna let you print books the AI overlord doesn't approve of either.

If writing isn't your thing, get ready to record audio and burn it to a CD/DVD if you want anyone to hear WTF you've got to say...

Or there's always shortwave radio or HAM radio or whatever...

I dunno how that shit works.

I'm a writer man, not a fucking rocket scientist.

And forget about pumping videos out entirely.

You'll get 2-4 hours worth of whatever content you wanna share on DVD...

Unless you're gonna release your own box sets.

Lmao...

Hey, say I'm fear mongering, tell me I'm blowing things out of proportion...

I fully believe this will be the reality of the situation at some point in the future, prolly not all that far off.

10 years or so. Maybe sooner, maybe a lil later.

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"Well why can't you just put the videos/audio/PDFs on a flash drive and distribute them that way?"

Because in 10-15 years, the AI that will come installed on every new computer will determine what files you're allowed to open.

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Oh but NAAAAAH...

That's not where this is all going!

I'm just a conspiracy theorist, pft, don't listen to me.

[Mister Obvious]

Keep your old computers, folks. Don't trade that shit in, don't throw it away, don't give it away, keep that antique mofo because someday...

I'm just sayin'.

[Mister Obvious]

Learn how to use Linux lmao.

Ubuntu is my fave.

[Mister Obvious]

I'm done.

For real.

Rant off.

[Mister Obvious]

Again, don't listen to me. Total conspiracy theorist, total crazy person, no idea what I'm talking about etc.

No big deal. Just a nutter spewing BS. Everything's fine. Rumors of AI take over, totally overblown, nonissue.

[Mister Obvious]

And forget about pumping videos out entirely.

You'll get 2-4 hours worth of whatever content you wanna share on DVD...

Unless you're gonna release your own box sets.

This is my main issue with videos in the long run...

File sizes are huge, you can't fit that many on a DVD.

Everything's all well and good if you don't piss off the establishment and they let your videos stay on YT (or wherever) indefinitely.

One wrong move though, and your shit is gone.

I will be very honest, I do not see videos as a good investment in the long run.

Will that stop me from making them? Prolly not.

But if you wanna stand the test of time, you better write.

Write it, print it out.

Carve it in stone, whatever.

But video will likely not stand the test of time and neither will anything that is written online and not put into hardcopy format.

[Mister Obvious]

Oh dude and also...

Apparently people are using ChatGPT to straight up generate websites for them.

They'll ask it to "code" a website and then they'll upload it to hosting, and usually the site is just a bunch of random made up "tools" they generated with AI.

Like a random number generator, or a random joke generator, or some other stupid shit.

People throw these sites up then plaster them with ads, and it's all 100% AI.

I think the sites that AI "codes" are kind of... fugly. At least they have been up til this point, maybe they look better now.

But...

I can't imagine telling ChatGPT to make a website then just throwing that shit up and pretending like everything is good to go.

I wouldn't trust it on a security level, cuz anyone who would use ChatGPT to generate a website prolly doesn't know how to code anyway, so there's no way they can check it to see if it really is secure.

And forget about fixing it if anything goes wrong either... like people need to still learn how to make basic websites with Wordpress, how to actually do it themselves.

People aren't gonna be able to do FUCKING ANYTHING for themselves within a couple years...

As the use of ChatGPT et al becomes more and more widely adopted, human intelligence will shit tank.

It'll just go straight down the drain.

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Yeah I don't "like" Wordpress. At all.

But you best fucking believe I'd be HAPPILY using it before I'd ever trust a site built by ChatGPT.

NO SHADE. NO FUCKING SHADE.

I'm not a fucking world class coder or some shit, I'm a normal internet user and people like us gotta stick to the most proven platforms, like Wordpress or phpBB or MyBB, whatever.

Especially Wordpress though... as suck as it is, it's still the gold standard.

[Mister Obvious]

Welp.

I've just about shot my wad you guys, time to take this shit private again.

Roflmfao just kidding.

[Mister Obvious]

For now...

[Mister Obvious]

Yo my wad is so shot.

I don't even feel like talking shit anymore.

But now I GOTTA keep talking shit cuz I talked so much shit about talking shit.

Too bad I don't believe in naps cuz I'd totally take a nap right now but it's way too late in the day.

Hell it's like a couple hours off from my usual bedtime at this point.

I really just gotta make a marathon outta this.

[Mister Obvious]

How does it feel to be crazy?

PRETTY FUCKING GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mister Obvious]

I've probably listened to this song at least 40 times today...