of judging a thing by the character
of the people that enjoy it.
It is the impulse that has on many an occasion
stopped me from entering a rock climbing gym,
or any establishment with a Cyber Truck parked outside.
But as of late, none are irking quite as much
as the scourge of AI nonsense
that seems to have gripped our collective consciousness.
The people that seem to be the most bullish about it
carry a worrying degree of overlap with the people convinced
that Cryptocurrencies would replace the entire existing monetary system.
These are, in my estimation, amongst the worst of us,
and anything they stand in such ardent support of
should be approached with a strong degree of openness for derision.
To use the moniker Artificial Intelligence
for the recent proliferation of the little language-based internet toys
in increasingly common use is a misnomer to put it kindly.
I absolutely abhor and am loath to include any at all in anything I do,
but given my decades-long experience as a copywriter,
please forgive my impending (albeit reluctant) use of a few.