Dear Editor

That’s what so-called “artificial intelligence” represents to me. As a full-time YouTube watcher, I see advertisements that are insultingly stupid, and obviously written, illustrated and presented by AI bots. The characters are unnaturally forceful and biometrically symmetrical. This annoys me to no end. I’ve seen testimonials and resumes rife with useless repetitions and unwarranted claims. I see through them, but I fear that people who don’t watch as critically as I do may be fooled by low-level scams.  

We may become so immersed in this wave of non-sequiturs, that we fail to think for ourselves, or recognize real intelligence when we see or hear it. There’s plenty of what we call AI slop, and yet, the billionaire nerds who are promoting this technology as being an inevitable evolution require more and more data centres to churn out more slop for the ignorant masses. 

And this is the thing that worries me most about the AI phenomenon; the data centres are ruinous to their immediate environment, requiring water for cooling and electricity for power, and offer nearly nothing to the people who live nearby. Governments are always searching for business developments, and some have fallen prey to the promise of great wealth, if they initiate non-disclosure agreements, so that local groups have no chance to object. I hope that our MRC government will not be fooled by the biggest scam of the century, and enter into a deal that will ruin the place we live, just so billionaire nerds can take over the world, and eliminate all the useless biological units. 

Robert Wills, Shawville and Thorne