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I'm sure you have questions, this is where I'll try to answer them.

## Where's the comment section?

I've deliberately decided not to have comments on this blog for two reasons:

1. I'm a resident of Germany and having a comment section would legally require me to check every comment for incriminating material. As the comments become part of what is published on this site, I also become responsible for the contents in these comments in the eyes of the law. Furthermore, the European Court of Justice considers incriminating comments made on websites an offense, even after they have been deleted.
2. Spam.

Since this is supposed to be a hobby of mine I'd rather not deal with that.

If you wish to comment on my blog posts, you are welcome to do so in the replies of the social media posts in which I link them.

## Why do you put "AI" in quotes?

Because the marketing departments of companies like OpenAI made a mockery of the term, so I refuse to call it that in earnest.

What these companies call "AI" is actually Machine Learning (ML) because the algorithms have to be trained and lack sufficient reasoning behind the output they produce. It *might* be right sometimes but it's still nothing more than an algorithm that strings words together based on statistical probabilities. It does not and cannot understand what the meaning of its output is, because it does not have any concept of what we consider truth.

What is peddled as "AI" these days is nothing more than a stochastic parrot regurgitating the vile shit that comes out of cesspools such as Reddit ruining the internet as a communication platform by flooding it with a torrent of slop. It exacerbates the issue we've dealt with before with content farms and Big Tech firms such as Meta, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Apple are complicit in perpetuating this in an attempt to sell us on a future that will never come.

I refuse to pay respect to an over-hyped grift that destroys our environment, makes use of the same bullshit playbook crypto bros used to pump & dump a ponzy-scheme, and is generally pretty useless and gets things wrong a third-grader could get right no issue.
