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Less willing

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One effect of AI, at least on me, is that I am less willing to write public posts.

I have always liked making up stories and writing ’explanations to myself’, so I do not forget how I fixed a problem. At the beginning, it was on paper, but then I had my first web page around 1996. Remember Geocities? This was followed by my first domain names in 2002. Posting on the web was good for me; I even got job offers from that.

Lately, however, writing has been twisted into something else. The whole web, including this site, has been (and is being) absorbed by AI companies, so people can quickly regurgitate millions of blog posts, images, videos, … content. Training material for placeholders to be sandwiched between ads.

AI makes me question sharing and the idea of contributing to open culture, which is the complete opposite of what we wanted to do at the beginning of the internet. Anathema. Irony: LinkedIn offering me to rewrite this post with AI.

Not AI, but an old 2011 mac mini that I resuscitated with Linux. Instructions in old forum posts were very helpful to accomplish this task. Some of the new AI suggestions were a shitshow.