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Debi

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I am on a rant. I now have my browser suddenly asking me if I wish to have AI assist in finding or doing anything! I don't want assist, but the dang thing asks everytime I try to look up something!
I'm on a Chromebook so Google is the browser, and it's trying to push an agenda, filter my searches, and in general make me crazy!
I realize many people are using AI very happily. Good for any of you that love it.
Me? Not so much.
Today's questions are:
Have you seen a change in your browser ability?
Have you noticed how much it's now used?
Are you a fan and using it?
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Debi, I think i'm being tested here LOL!
Having both education in internet systems security and personal experience. My 2 cents.
Change to Firefox browser, you have more control over everything and NO AI.
Reality is The powers can do whatever regarding internet. My system is secure enough.
I have nothing to hide :p Anyways Google is the Devil imo :p
 
A.I is the bane of art, writing, etc.... its taking the talent out of the equation...... anyone can now be a writer or artist thanks to A.I's help. (doing it for them).... no talent required or even learning or effort for that matter. when A.I ceates art it takes millions of images and creates one from it, so its using the talent of those it is stealing from to create the one image for the one asking of it... same with writing, you can tell it to "write a poem (in whatever genre you choose)" and it will create it for you... as an example from another post.... if i were to ask it to create a poem in say obscure words about love and loss, this is an example of what i would get......

Elegy of the Aether

In twilight's argent embrace, we wove our tale,
A symphony of ephemeral ardor, whispered in veiled alcoves.
Your eyes, cerulean orbs, held secrets of forgotten constellations,
And your touch, a sonnet etched upon my skin.

We danced upon the precipice of limerence,
Where lachrymose skies wept for our ephemeral union.
Our love, a threnody sung by spectral winds,

Echoed through the hollows of ancient yew trees.

But fate, that capricious wyrd, wove threads of sorrow,
And our amour fou unraveled like gossamer spun by moonlight.
You became the bête noire haunting my dreams,
A phantasmagoria of longing and regret.

I wandered the lacunae of memory, seeking solace,
Yet found only the saudade of your absence.
Each dawn, a desideratum unfulfilled,
As I traced your name in dew-kissed grass.

Now, you are the chiaroscuro that stains my soul,
A threnody whispered by the zephyrs of oblivion.
In this nocturne, I mourn our fractured éclat,
And yearn for the serendipity of our lost infinity.
Farewell, my anamnesis, my luminal love.

or..........

Lament of the Ephemeral

In the crepuscular hours, shadows lengthen,
A requiem for moments lost, whispered by the zephyrs.
The petrichor of memory clings to my skin,
As I traverse the labyrinthine corridors of grief.

Each vesper, a fading ember in the hearth of existence,
I mourn the saudade of your touch, your luminal grace.
The threnody of our fractured bond echoes,
A symphony of lacunae, unanswered questions.

The serendipity that once wove our destinies,
Now unraveled, a tapestry of frayed threads.
You, my bête noire, the chiaroscuro of my soul,
A phantasmagoria haunting the chambers of my heart.

I seek solace in the lachrymose rain, its tears cleansing,
Yet it cannot wash away the anamnesis of our love.
The desideratum of your presence lingers,
A ghostly whisper in the aether, forever elusive.

Farewell, my ephemeral muse, my silent lament.

A.I is nothing more than another level of falseness in this false world we have immersed ourselves into....it doesnt help you, it slowly replaces you
 
I too ditched Chrome/Google a while ago. I use Brave Browser and DuckDuckGo for search engine. I did get a recent pop-up where Brave was happy to announce its new AI, I just clicked the No Thank You button and it went away.
 
Debi, I am right there with you on that rant. I ditched Google too. I use Duck Duck Go or Startpage and gladly donate to keep it up and running. I also have Microsoft trying to force me to use Bing and it also keeps offering to do my thinking for me.

Paulm; yes it is atrocious, the stuff that is passing for real talent due to AI. I have had my writing rejected in favor of this regurgitated crap. And, don't get me started on the increasingly artificial world we are living in! Artificial scents, flavors, relationships, etc. Lately, I noticed a different scent on Mr. Garnet. (No, not another woman, lol.) Turns out he has been hanging his coat somewhere at work where scented cleaning products have been stored nearby. His coat becomes saturated with this awful synthetic scent. Then it has to be aired when he gets home. Why are people afraid of an unscented reality? Scented trash bags. Scented dishsoap. Scented...Ugh!
 
Well, it's been a few days, but odd days in which I've been sleeping and waking in odd bursts and so sticking to passive things rather than writing, so haven't responded as promised. But. I just watched a video made by a young artist upset at being sidelined and was inflamed enough to break the fog and write a response, and since it covers much of what I planned to say here, here it is:

'A.I. art isn't better than you. You've worked hard to improve the technical quality of your art and and so it's natural that you look at it and see that quality in it and nothing else, but A.I. art lacks what you had all along. A.I. 'art' merely steals the works of thousands of artists and generates a lowest common denominator melding of the art it has found which matches some words, yet without even a shred of understanding. Even in the few examples you showed were ubiquitous cliches in A.I. 'art' which increasingly recycles the same bits and pieces over and over in an anti-artistic program for perfection in which each image produced is increasingly refined into the most generic image possible for each combination of words within the randomisation part of its programming. That randomisation makes little difference as much of A.I.'s reference material is from identical looking stock images and poor derivative human art.
It's composition is terrible, as its programming doesn't take that into account. It is littered with errors which no human being would ever make, such as extra limbs or fingers or feet below the floor, or perspective errors from combining pictures which had different POV angles. Many more. This worthless trash uses vast computing power and energy as we face a global meltdown caused in part by using too much energy to produce worthless junk.
The amount of power and hardware needed to duplicate the artistic sensibility of an observant ten year old is far beyond us.
So don't worry. It's the latest tech fad. Like virtual reality and crypto, every IT ignorant business exec has dived in cluelessly expecting a big payoff and they have all invested in a lemon. Again. Most people can see that it sucks. There's no market outside the one generated by investors. It will soon be time to crack open a cool drink, relax and enjoy sketching cartoons of its inevitable collapse as the idiots' money burns.'
 
I don't know enough about how these things work to know if I have this problem, but I am thinking I need to get rid of google by what you all say.
I'm waiting for the neighbor kid to get back from Purdue, he'll change it over.

(Lynne, I set up my stereo in the 80's, and that's enough technology for me.)