Seriously, using something devoid of thought as "a sparring partner for your thoughts" seems to me like it's a serious entry point to losing one's grip.

Especially since the behaviour of those machines is steered by large corporations whose only goal is to get your ressources, be it money, skill or attention.

Fortunately AI is not big enough part of my life to care about this one way or another. It definitely has it's uses but I never used as anything other than data transformation and as a search engine alternative. I don't know what kind of people confuse AI with a companion and have sincere conversations with it, I don't know how to help them and I don't care how this will impact the AI industry.

The thing is you don't have to use it personally, other people will use it for you and present it to you, possibly without you knowing it. AI bot accounts, AI news stories, AI art and so on. It is already a big part of the internet and it will continue to increase regardless of whether we personally use AI or not.

Yeah, wafflewarrior’s description of AI is hugely problematic and is the exact reason why people are falling into this crap. AI is literally the antithesis of mental exercising.

Seriously, using something devoid of thought as "a sparring partner for your thoughts" seems to me like it's a serious entry point to losing one's grip.

Especially since the behaviour of those machines is steered by large corporations whose only goal is to get your ressources, be it money, skill or attention.

With how so many services are forcing it upon us, I'd have to disagree.

It's also getting to be a bit of a chore to block AI elements on all the various websites implementing them, and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist. On each device...

It is the most effective solution for sure, though.

and a few of the worst offenders (Google is one that I know does this) add a random string of characters on the element that serve as a unique identifier that periodically changes and so requires me to readd them to my UBO blocklist.

Does ubo accept css selectors? Css has syntax for "match element that starts with, ends with, or contains, this string"

Attribute selectors - CSS | MDN

The CSS attribute selector matches elements based on the element having a given attribute explicitly set, with options for defining an attribute value or substring value match.

MDN Web Docs (developer.mozilla.org)

That's what i always think when i read things like that. "Facebook is invading our privacy, same as instagram, and there is nothing we can do."

Idk man, not using it is pretty easy actually.

Now i need to know who wins.