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I (almost) never use ai

this blog has never had anything ai-generated on it, and probably never will. If it ever does, it would be disclosed at that time.

I have not intentionally used ai for many months now. 6? A year? I don't know.

Though, I read AllSides, and they use AI in conjunction with staff review to generate summary reports.

And I watch Neural Viz - a series on YouTube that I absolutely love, which is made using generative AI. (I'm generally very opposed to AI for artistic works but idk this one is a special exception for me.)

I suggest reading choosing to walk (away from AI) | yours, tiramisu and I am an AI Hater and If You Can’t Be Bothered To Write It, I Can’t Be Bothered To Read It | Sebastian Malloy.

How I have used Generative AI

I typically search on Ecosia, but sometimes I'm on a browser that defaults to Google (my library's computers), which basically forces AI gen onto me

I used it a little bit to generate code when Chat GPT was getting big. Most of the code it generated was unhelpful and I ended up writing my own stuff anyway.

I've asked it some obscure questions where search was unhelpful - like "I played a game where you did [this and this and this and that] 20 years ago, what could it be?" Or some programming questions I didn't know how to search for, or for programming languages I was new to.

I've played with it a little bit - silly chats and stuff

I've used whisper AI to convert audio files into text transcriptions (and I will probably do this again if I ever get back into journalism)

That's all I can think of right now.

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