Random Thoughts

[Bürggermeister]

The controversy over plagiarism at Cambridge is an interesting one. So much initial reviewing of any kind of documentation is done by AI now, which is actually not great at all at comprehending documents written by humans, despite what Big Tech would have you believe. If your document is going to be filtered by AI, it's far better if it's written by AI too, as it will be constructed in a way which lets the reading bot understand better than one in which the quirks of personality and individual humanity still can bamboozle the cunting thing, meaning what could be excellently and insightfully written gets lost in translation if it's not a winner at keyword bingo, which is where we are with AI. There's a war on intellect taking place. That awful syntax we're all starting to recognise as the hallmarks of generative AI is what's taking over, it needs to be the standard if you want to get past the initial phase of AI filtering, resulting in awful homogenised output which is largely the same, because it has to be, which will make it even more standardised after that.

The future isn't what it used to be.

[Eoin McLove]

Are you vaguely referring to Jason Arday? D'interweb is really going to town on him, the poor eejit. I mean, it looks like he brought it on himself with his made up stories, some of which are hilarious, but I think the real criminals are Cambridge. The DEI phenomenon is somewhat interesting to me. I can understand giving people from underprivileged areas a leg up wherever possible, particularly if they show some potential. Why not! But when you just let any old bullshittter through the door to tick diversity boxes it is going to come around and bite you eventually.

In a broader context, it gives the populist right the perfect ammo to undermine the left. All of this stuff has to, by some degree, have fed into the phenomenon of Trump & Trump 2. Eejitry.

[Bürggermeister]

Loosely inspired by Arday, the gobshite, but more a musing on the rising use of AI to review documents which will drive more documents to be generated by AI in the first place which will lead to a lot more derivative content as there are just a handful of big players in the AI market. If 1,000 people ask Chat GPT the same question, they're going to get the same answer 1,000 times with only minor insubstantial variations. What we see with Arday is going to become a regular event, I fear.

[Eoin McLove]

Indian food is like manna from heaven on the way in and like a nuclear explosion from hell on the way out. Unreal.