One of the challenges in 2025 is the fact that we are besieged on every side by AI. Word has it. Google has it. My email program has it. Everywhere are 'bots' (I won't even call them 'robots') trying to interfere in what I want to do.
I get that some people are not confident about their writing skills, but whatever level of purgatory we are currently in, allowing some word salad machine dictate to me what words, what phrasing, I should be using as I try to communicate MY thoughts? This isn't acceptable.
I keep refusing to activate their AI, and now new updates have it as the default, and sometimes I just can't figure out how to 'disable' it. So I keep ignoring it, but mentally I curse the damned things.
The latest word salad atrocity was a list of summer reading that was written by some kind of 'AI' and half of the recommended books don't actually exist.
So I renew my pledge to never knowingly use AI - of any kind. It's not accurate. It's fantasy (and not very good, to boot). And it will give 'bad' advice.
Now, someone may well not agree with the things I say, but I am a human being with 50 years of experience in weaving. My experience may not mirror someone else's, but within the context I offer it, it at least works for me - a human being who actually knows something about the craft and doesn't go around stealing other people's information and then twists into something that isn't real while I try to make money off of stolen information that is badly described.
Plus the environmental impacts. The energy and water it takes to let the bot spew garbage is unsustainable. For that reason alone I will never ask AI to write something for me, to simply 'mock' it. It's not human. It cannot be shamed.
There are now plenty of *good* online classes if you need to learn that way. There are books and magazines.
Yesterday I told the newer students in attendance that they can contact me at any time and ask me questions. For free. If they want a 'class', I tell them where to find them. And my guild library has my books if they can learn that way.
I doubt very much I will live until 90 like my mother, with no guarantee I will keep my marbles until such time arrives to head on over to the loom room in the sky.
In the meantime, I and others, continue to teach. Explain. Encourage. Live human beings (and some dead ones, who have left books behind for people to continue to use even after they are gone) - not 'artificial intelligence'. Real people who learned the craft, then did their best to share what they learned.
So please. Support actual human beings, not 'stupid' bots. Support actual human beings, not dude bros who have first stolen from actual human beings, then try to make money off of their theft.
(shoves soap box off to the side...heads to loom...)
Books hard copy and digital
1 comment:
I agree, it irritates me profoundly when my email wants to change my wording!
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