AI, Responsibility, & Real Connection

First of all, the current landscape.

And I remember back in February, I was watching the Super Bowl and I kept commenting on how many AI commercials there were.

I couldn't believe it.

It was like every other commercial was pushing AI on us.

And I do have a problem with how we're being forced into it.

This should be an opt-in, not an opt-out.

And I'll give you some examples.

Most of the search engines... automatically give you an AI summary which can be very helpful but they're always appearing and it's really hard to turn them off and so that I have a problem with they should be optional but they're automatically appearing for us and I'll talk later about how I get around that another thing is that you'll notice as you go to support or really most websites now have chatbots that are AI generated again sometimes they can be helpful sometimes not so much but they're pushed on us.

That seems to be the only option we're given these days.

I've also seen lately a lot of automatic trials.

I use a Blink security camera and they've started doing an automatic AI summary.

They did it for like a week trial, but I think it's to try to suck people into it.

I didn't.

Obviously, I'm not paying for that service.

But Zoom is the same.

You go into Zoom now and it's got AI summaries that you can just turn on.

And I'm not interested in that.

Another thing that I noticed is when I go into Adobe Documents, At the top on the right-hand side, it'll have generative summaries.

It's like we've stopped reading.

It's something they just have decided nobody needs to read the full document or the full book anymore.

It reminds me of Cliff's notes from college.

So the problem that I have is companies are asking for forgiveness rather than permission.

AI should be an opt-in, not an opt-out.