Add this to the backlash: Just putting the finishing touches on "Substack voices you can trust: An AI-mish writers directory". I will not waste a second reading AI-enhanced/ augmented/ scented writing, but instead throw my time, attention, and support behind authors who embrace fully human creation. Please add your recommendations for authors who have committed to not using AI in their writing here https://substack.com/@ruthgaskovski/note/c-263953437 .
The goal of this is not only to direct readers toward “writers for humanity” (see writersagainstai.net), but also to affirm writers that their fully human work matters, offering an antidote to AI-encroachment in the creative process.
Does this include AI generated pictures? I’m really weary of seeing this fake visual art. If writers can’t afford stock photos/illustrations, use public domain stuff or nothing.
When the Yankees opened their new stadium, the seats behind home plate were walled off from the rest of the stadium so the everyday fan couldn't slide up there and they were priced at around $2,500 for the elite, that is, Wall Streeters who could expense them. In other words, the price was meant to be invisible. Then the 2008 financial crisis came, and Wall Street accounting departments, (the people who deal with real money, unlike the financiers who deal with imaginary money, such as valuations) took a hard look at these prices and found no ROI. Thus the area is now largely empty most games.
Similarly, AI was not built for the everyday fan as it were. It was built for the elite, CEOs, with its pricing meant to be vanished into a company's overall overhead. The problem for the AI companies is, corporate accounting offices (the people who deal with real money, not imaginary ones, like stock prices) are taking notice and causing bosses to cut back because there is no measurable mass ROI and they don't want to hurt their valuations and stock prices. That the price for AI is being raised to something approaching its actual cost so the AI companies lose less money, has only planted a red flag in this issue for companies.
And thus AI will die because, in creating a B2B software, they never considered a mass consumer use case for it at a price worth paying. They created a novelty that for most has grown old. And for those who have found uses for, largely experts wanting it for data crunching, aren't a big enough market for it.
Techlash is just getting started. It will be the top issue in the 2028 elections. How do we:
- protect our society
- stay ahead of China, which is adopting AI and robots at light speed. US has better models, but they have surpassed us in putting them to work and are 90% cheaper than the US.
Don't really think our current set of tech leaders and politicians are up to the challenge.
About noise injection: creativity is often about turning what was once just noise into glorious music. Interesting to watch whether AIs are up to the challenge.
..."The probability of Mark Zuckerberg or some other tech billionaire turning this around is almost zero"...I doubt it. They will not stop until their precious stocks fall by 50% or more. That is where their wealth comes from...the perceived notion that these companies are worth 100's of billions and in some cases trillions. That is the dome of glass that needs to be shattered.
I remember reading somewhere (I think it was here?) that said there were many years of disruption after Guttenberg invented the printing press, because of the influx of information.
We need to intrinsically value humanity because if we do not, who will? The machines?
We can only hope it will end badly for any and all purveyors of IA slop[ in whatever form. including AI literature. But I suspect the Trump administration will formally declare the need for advanced AI in the name of national security. Once the tech bros and the politicos draw the national security card, all bets are off. It won't matter what the unwashed masses want. The plutocrats and their subsidiary politicians need AI to monitor and control us. So they will have it, public be damned.
This is an awesome article. I watched every video and that takes some time. It was worth it. I laughed, I cried and now I am much more hopeful about the future of music and the shackling of AI to things that AI is actually supposed to be for.
Love it. I have a YouTube channel and have given up on trying to get enough watch time to get monetized. Maybe if I make a bunch of ridiculous AI tracks, it will get monetized with the AI tracks and my real music and jazz improv instruction will get watched. LOL
The tech companies have gotten away with so much for so long they have come to believe they are entitled to do anything they want. No need to wait and wonder what an amoral, soulless AI might do; the amoral, soulless, sociopaths who own the industry are already demonstrating that.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan Jeff Bezos once created for the Washington Post, before he made it clear that only pro-oligarch ideas are welcome in the new editorial pages.
Google once said "Don't Be Evil," before erasing that inconvenient guardrail from its mind.
"2026: I'm from the tech industry and I'm here to help you!"
An influencer on IG/Threads who daily "writes" long posts about challenging one's physical "comfort" with regular physical activity in daily life admitted that he composes these multi-post threads with the help of AI. He was put off when I suggested maybe he should apply the same principles to his writing. lol
The Homer Simpson stunt made me laugh.
A little ridicule goes a long way.
https://youtu.be/-TgIE_bI8-o?si=TR2P14308u-CfyrJ
Add this to the backlash: Just putting the finishing touches on "Substack voices you can trust: An AI-mish writers directory". I will not waste a second reading AI-enhanced/ augmented/ scented writing, but instead throw my time, attention, and support behind authors who embrace fully human creation. Please add your recommendations for authors who have committed to not using AI in their writing here https://substack.com/@ruthgaskovski/note/c-263953437 .
The goal of this is not only to direct readers toward “writers for humanity” (see writersagainstai.net), but also to affirm writers that their fully human work matters, offering an antidote to AI-encroachment in the creative process.
Does this include AI generated pictures? I’m really weary of seeing this fake visual art. If writers can’t afford stock photos/illustrations, use public domain stuff or nothing.
Hurrah! Is there an equivalent for composers, Ruth? I’m one and all my work is human generated!
When the Yankees opened their new stadium, the seats behind home plate were walled off from the rest of the stadium so the everyday fan couldn't slide up there and they were priced at around $2,500 for the elite, that is, Wall Streeters who could expense them. In other words, the price was meant to be invisible. Then the 2008 financial crisis came, and Wall Street accounting departments, (the people who deal with real money, unlike the financiers who deal with imaginary money, such as valuations) took a hard look at these prices and found no ROI. Thus the area is now largely empty most games.
Similarly, AI was not built for the everyday fan as it were. It was built for the elite, CEOs, with its pricing meant to be vanished into a company's overall overhead. The problem for the AI companies is, corporate accounting offices (the people who deal with real money, not imaginary ones, like stock prices) are taking notice and causing bosses to cut back because there is no measurable mass ROI and they don't want to hurt their valuations and stock prices. That the price for AI is being raised to something approaching its actual cost so the AI companies lose less money, has only planted a red flag in this issue for companies.
And thus AI will die because, in creating a B2B software, they never considered a mass consumer use case for it at a price worth paying. They created a novelty that for most has grown old. And for those who have found uses for, largely experts wanting it for data crunching, aren't a big enough market for it.
Techlash is just getting started. It will be the top issue in the 2028 elections. How do we:
- protect our society
- stay ahead of China, which is adopting AI and robots at light speed. US has better models, but they have surpassed us in putting them to work and are 90% cheaper than the US.
Don't really think our current set of tech leaders and politicians are up to the challenge.
About noise injection: creativity is often about turning what was once just noise into glorious music. Interesting to watch whether AIs are up to the challenge.
Poison pilling! Thumbs up. Everyone in the arts loathes AI
..."The probability of Mark Zuckerberg or some other tech billionaire turning this around is almost zero"...I doubt it. They will not stop until their precious stocks fall by 50% or more. That is where their wealth comes from...the perceived notion that these companies are worth 100's of billions and in some cases trillions. That is the dome of glass that needs to be shattered.
I remember reading somewhere (I think it was here?) that said there were many years of disruption after Guttenberg invented the printing press, because of the influx of information.
We need to intrinsically value humanity because if we do not, who will? The machines?
We can only hope it will end badly for any and all purveyors of IA slop[ in whatever form. including AI literature. But I suspect the Trump administration will formally declare the need for advanced AI in the name of national security. Once the tech bros and the politicos draw the national security card, all bets are off. It won't matter what the unwashed masses want. The plutocrats and their subsidiary politicians need AI to monitor and control us. So they will have it, public be damned.
When I post words on various media I often slightly misspell or rejigger or regrammarize, all to befuddle the algaerhythm...
This is an awesome article. I watched every video and that takes some time. It was worth it. I laughed, I cried and now I am much more hopeful about the future of music and the shackling of AI to things that AI is actually supposed to be for.
Love it. I have a YouTube channel and have given up on trying to get enough watch time to get monetized. Maybe if I make a bunch of ridiculous AI tracks, it will get monetized with the AI tracks and my real music and jazz improv instruction will get watched. LOL
The tech companies have gotten away with so much for so long they have come to believe they are entitled to do anything they want. No need to wait and wonder what an amoral, soulless AI might do; the amoral, soulless, sociopaths who own the industry are already demonstrating that.
"Democracy Dies in Darkness" is the slogan Jeff Bezos once created for the Washington Post, before he made it clear that only pro-oligarch ideas are welcome in the new editorial pages.
Google once said "Don't Be Evil," before erasing that inconvenient guardrail from its mind.
"2026: I'm from the tech industry and I'm here to help you!"
Sure you are.
Great news
An influencer on IG/Threads who daily "writes" long posts about challenging one's physical "comfort" with regular physical activity in daily life admitted that he composes these multi-post threads with the help of AI. He was put off when I suggested maybe he should apply the same principles to his writing. lol
Ridicule and mockery are also effective ways to help AI from controlling every damn thing.
ate to say it, but isagoku is pretty damn funny.