AI Chips, Ethics, and Generative AI: My Rant on the State of Things

So, this AI thing, right? It’s everywhere. Like roaches in a bad apartment, only instead of scurrying around lookin’ for crumbs, these things are suckin’ up all our data and spittin’ out… what? Cat videos? Personalized ads for crap I don’t need? It’s like the internet threw up, and this is what we got.

First off, these AI chips. They’re gettin’ faster every damn day. It’s like they’re in a race… a race to see who can make the most money off my anxieties. They’re buildin’ these things bigger and faster so they can track my every move online. Every click, every search, every damn time I look at a picture of a cheeseburger. They know. They know. And they’re gonna use that knowledge to sell me more crap I don’t need. It’s genius, really. Evil genius.

And then there’s the “ethics” of it all. Everybody’s up in arms about whether these AI are gonna become self-aware and turn on us. Like that’s the real problem. The real problem is they’re already turnin’ on us! They’re turnin’ on us with targeted advertising, with manipulative algorithms, with “personalized” experiences that are designed to keep us hooked. They’re not gonna kill us with lasers, they’re gonna kill us with boredom. And debt.

And don’t even get me started on these “generative” AI. They’re writin’ poems, they’re paintin’ pictures… they’re basically doin’ everything I can’t do, and they’re doin’ it faster and cheaper. So now I gotta compete with a computer for creative expression? What kind of sick joke is this? It’s like the robots are mockin’ us. “Oh, you think you’re creative? Check out this masterpiece I whipped up in three seconds!” Yeah, well, I whipped up this hangover in three hours, so who’s the real winner here?

So, where does that leave us? I don’t know. Probably with a bunch of robots writin’ blog posts about how great they are. And then they’ll probably write a song about it. And then they’ll probably paint a picture of it. And then they’ll probably… You know what? I need a drink. This whole AI thing is givin’ me a headache. A digital headache. Which, ironically, they probably have a cure for. Damn them.