My poor site is getting some love today. New theme, updated all the plugins, and now a post.
I am not sure what I want to do with this site going forward. I’m very concerned about the way that “AI” companies are just training their machines on everything on the internet without regard for copyright or more important ethical concerns, which makes me hesitant to add more content here for the time being.
I think that modern machine learning can create some really great tools for humans to use, but the way that industry is trying to push it as The Future™, suggesting that modern “AI” can do everything for you, worries me a lot. Machine learning cannot currently achieve everything they’re trying to sell it for, and in the meantime we’re seeing search engines recommend eating glue, or chat programs encouraging people to commit suicide.
But my site is now updated and ready for whatever I might want to do with it. I’ve been making a lot of cool patchwork this year, now that I have a good sewing machine. But “AI”-generated crafting images are being used for false advertising so… yeah.