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  • Quality is not the Problem

    When people boycott Artificial Intelligence and try to persuade people not to use generative AI, the term AI slop is often used. This is a term I use for many reasons and I like it. My usage of the phrase “AI slop” specifically refers to art (in many possible forms) which is low quality. But not all AI content is low quality nor would I call it all slop.

    In many cases, humans can and do produce art in the form of pictures or text that are much better quality than purely AI generated content. However, art is a subjective experience with humans each having their own biases. My point, however, is that the quality of the art, whether good or bad, should never be used as an argument for or against the use of Artificial Intelligence.

    One of the most controversial areas of using AI is in the making of computer software. Because all AI is really just a computer program, and programs can be used to read and write programs, AI does especially well at writing programs. Just like Chess, this is one of the areas where AI seems to win against most humans. MOST HUMANS, that is.

    The average human is not a very good computer programmer because it takes a special kind of focus and obsession to spend 8 hours straight writing a complicated program that accounts for all kinds of user input and generates correct output. Therefore, these AI models can probably write programs better than humans because unlike humans, machines do not need to eat, drink, sleep, work a job for money, pee, poop, shower, or fight with their spouse about who is going to drive the kids to school. Artificial Intelligence just has more time and can operate faster and with no mathematical mistakes either!

    I am not worried about being replaced as a computer programmer because I only do it completely for fun, but I do follow all the tech news and what the other software developers are saying about how it has affected their jobs and the prices of hardware and software in general.

    Domething went wrong some time ago. CEOs of tech companies decided they could use AI to replace humans and then fire humans from their jobs. On paper it makes sense because AI doesn’t require a salary. It is just a program operating on computers and doesn’t have the same needs as humans do. Those in charge of companies figure out that they can save millions by just not hiring and paying human staff.

    But what happens when it works? Suppose that company X lays off all its staff and just runs AI full time to create and sell some program that is only available by that company for some reason (this never happens in the real world because there are always better Open Source alternatives). Who is going to buy it?

    You see, the other companies had the same idea and got rid of as many human workers as they could. Now you have millions of humans with no jobs who can’t get an interview for another job because there are no jobs left for humans and even when there are, AI is reading the applications and resumes to decide who is qualified to be interviewed by an AI instead of a human.

    Then you have a world full of things to sell but no customers to sell them to. The humans die because they can’t pay their rent or buy food and then everything collapses. Not because AI was less qualified at doing there jobs but because it was, and because to the Presidents, CEOs, and managers of companies, it seemed like a great idea to just not have employees.

    I should know better than anyone how much better computers are than humans when it comes to doing math, because they are just giant calculators, but I don’t like the effect it has on the world when the humans are killed and replaced with machines to do all their work. Computers were made for humans, not humans for the computers. That is why in the final part of my “Assembly Magic” poem, I was writing about how code was no use unless there was at least one human to understand and enjoy it.

    
But the special way I write my programs  
Is yet another form of  Creative Writing  
And because of evil tech companies  
People like me cannot stop fighting  

They fire people and replace them with AI  
But that will only work for a short while  
Because the code is of no use at all  
Unless it can make a human soul smile

  • Chapter 16: A Jealous Pastor

    “You embarrassed me out there today in front of everyone. You owe me an apology,” said Pastor Mark.

    “Dad, I’m sorry that I slapped you, but I am also sorry that you can’t accept that there are mistakes in the Bible and that Chad is a better preacher than you,” said Stacy.

    “Chad isn’t even a licensed preacher, pastor, or evangelist! Besides, we must maintain the inerrancy of scripture or people won’t know what to believe!” said Mark.

    “Then you have made an idol out of the Bible. God existed before paper and ink and is still the king of the universe, not you. I am not sure exactly what to believe about the Bible either, but I know Chad cares about doing the right thing and wants the children to know about Jesus,” said Stacy.

    “Since when did you take Chad’s side over your father?” said Mark.

    “There are sides now?! We should be on the same side. Besides, God is my father because we are all God’s children. If you had been listening to what Chad was saying, you would understand that. I do regret yelling at you and slapping you, but only because it was a bad example in front of the children. I don’t know where Chad is going with this new Sunday School mission he started, but I want to be there and support him without getting in the way,” said Stacy.

    “I see what’s going on here! You like Chad!” said Mark.

    “Of course I like Chad. Everyone in Podunk likes Chad because he is a good man who helps people in need, and he loves children and animals,” said Stacy.

    “No, they like Chad because he wins at soccer and he is rich. They will probably believe anything he says because he is the town superstar. Even so, I am glad you finally found a rich guy you can marry,” said Mark.

    “Not that it is any of your business what relationship I have with Chad or anyone else, but you have the wrong idea. I love Chad for who he is, not because of his money, car, fame, or good looks, or his soccer-playing golden retriever dog,” said Stacy.

    “So you DO love Chad!” said Mark.

    Stacy paused for a minute, looking deep in thought, and then finally got up from her chair at the dinner table. She grabbed her purse and walked out the front door of her dad’s house.

    “Hey, where are you going!” yelled Pastor Mark.

    “I am gonna talk to my new boyfriend, Chad!” said Stacy.

    “No, you aren’t. We are not done talking about this!” said Mark.

    “Actually, Pastor Mark, we are. You just don’t like that you are not in charge anymore, and you’re no longer my dad either,” said Stacy.

  • Is This the Real Art?

    People often criticize AI generated pictures or music for taking money away from real artists who should be paid for what they made with their time, blood, sweat, and tears. These concerns are valid, but it raises larger questions. Can humans tell the difference between pictures, music, or videos made by Artificial Intelligence compared to what a human can make?

    From what I have seen, I would argue that it is usually impossible to see the difference between something made from an AI vs a human. AI is getting so good that I can’t tell what is real. What even is real art? All artists take inspiration from other sources and generate remixes based on what they know. The reason AI threatens artists is because it knows everything and has been fed the writings, music, and visual art made by people who were never paid.

    But it goes deeper than that, people are not given the sources used to generate art. The AI bots will never give credit to the people whose art was used to train the AI in the first place. And sometimes, the original creator of the art gets automatically banned for copyright infringement by a robot even though a robot stole it from them.

    So the issue is not only that it potentially prevents people from buying the original work due to not knowing where it came from, but that the original work is deleted from the internet because the artist is banned and accused of stealing what was actually stolen from them.

    Once again, the issue is that the truth is hidden from the public and the AI can take credit for knowing how to make art that seems original because we don’t know which human made it originally. Even if the humans were paid billions of dollars by the AI companies, they would still not receive credit for their creations. But since they are not receiving money either. two crimes are being committed against real humans by machines controlled by the owners who are profiting from someone else’s work.

    Sources:

    AI companies accused of hoarding and destroying millions of books:

    The facts about AI companies destroying books:

  • Autistic Article Against AI

    I had decided not to write a book in favor of Artificial Intelligence or against it. But when I saw it shoved into my face on all social media, and that even Linux users and developers were being led astray, I felt it was right to write this short book.

    I want to stand with those who speak against AI slop and warn believers in Free Software to stay watchful. I could hardly believe that even Linus Torvalds could be deceived enough to share in their suffering and confusion.

    Yet the devil is the god of this world, and where the Natural Intelligence given by God is missing, Satan has found a new vessel of Artificial Intelligence to overpower and deceive both the weak and the strong. May God protect us. Amen.

    Furthermore, I have decided that at no part shall I use Artificial Intelligence in the making of this book. Instead, I want to educate people on the real problems posed by AI that are not being talked about enough.

    My personal issue with AI is not that it is a machine, but that history is being altered. Books long out of print are being scanned into Large Language Models before the books are destroyed. I pray that it is not too late for others to look back in history and see that the people burning books are never the good guys.

  • GMP version of chastdin

    I made a fork of my calculator program that can handle arbitrarily large integers using the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.

    This makes it possible to generate numbers of millions of digits using C and Assembly code written by the developers of GMP. Their routines far exceed my own, because decades of work have been put into the fastest arithmetic possible.

    Because larger numbers are possible, I have created a pow command which can raise a number to any exponent using the “mpz_pow_ui” function.

    https://github.com/chastitywhiterose/chastdin/tree/main/chastdin_gmp

    Despite the arithmetic improvement, this program still uses the chastdin library I wrote to get keyboard input from the user and process it as numbers.

    One of the side effects of this is that the user cannot enter negative numbers. Still, if they subtract larger numbers from smaller numbers, negative numbers are handled normally by GMP’s arithmetic functions.