He loves doom jazz, tostones, and absurdist films.
David John Baer McNicholas has four names. two of them are extremely common, while the other two are strangely hard to pronounce in New Mexico. He won second place in the limbo, while drinking on a booze cruise, in 2003, and second place in a dance contest, while sober in Thailand, in 2015. He has done nothing noteworthy since then. David loves cats, and is allergic to them, and so keeps them at a distance which both parties find frustrating. He writes roughly 1,000 words an hour, but has to compost most of them, repeatedly.
The only thing I can state with conviction is that AI use should be disclosed.
I do not use AI to write or create visual artwork. Some clients use it for their artwork. It’s not for me to judge. Credit where credit is due, of course. The implication when someone uses and credits AI is that, back of that, there are millions of uncredited artists whose work has been mined. The same is true for code development, no? The well-intentioned rat’s nest of copyright law has failed to protect working class artists since its inception. AI did not create this ethical dilemma, but it has heightened it.
This website was coded with an immense debt to Claude.ai. Without its direct support, I’d just have a landing page. I wouldn’t fault you for thinking that would be better. Corporations are invading working class communities all over world with AI data centers. It’s a new form of corporate gentrification for robots and shareholders.
Corporations are not, of themselves, problematic. AI, the same. Even capitalism has existed for thousands of years as mercantilism, without being a huge problem. Something in the scale and implementation of 20th/21st century consumer capitalism and shareholder profit driven corporate motivation combined with a global phenomenon of consolidation and compression is driving toxic relationships between human progress and global personhood. I don’t have the answer.
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