Age verification and AI chat logs are converging into one surveillance chain. The only thing that ever protected you was the cost of reading you. It's gone.
On July 7th, I will be closing my account entirely.
My very first encounter with a chatbot prompt was only 18 months ago. Skepticism fueled my ignorance before then. At that moment, entering my first prompt into ChatGPT, skepticism was briefly overcome by curiosity as I dived into the inner workings -- Transformers, Attention, Back Propagation. It looked like about 90% math, 10% computer science, in my novice estimation.
But still, the skepticism remained. It still remains.
I have developed software as a career just fine -- very successfully, in fact -- without AI, for several decades. I don't need coding agents, and I am more thankful with each passing day, that no one can force me to use them. And I most certainly don't need to surrender any more of my privacy to the likes of Dario Amodei or Sam Altman.
I have an "old" Mac Mini M1 sitting over there on the shelf. I'm sure I will do just fine with whatever open-source model it is capable of hosting.
This is depressing.
it is what it is
I cancelled my paid plan with Claude 3 weeks ago.
On July 7th, I will be closing my account entirely.
My very first encounter with a chatbot prompt was only 18 months ago. Skepticism fueled my ignorance before then. At that moment, entering my first prompt into ChatGPT, skepticism was briefly overcome by curiosity as I dived into the inner workings -- Transformers, Attention, Back Propagation. It looked like about 90% math, 10% computer science, in my novice estimation.
But still, the skepticism remained. It still remains.
I have developed software as a career just fine -- very successfully, in fact -- without AI, for several decades. I don't need coding agents, and I am more thankful with each passing day, that no one can force me to use them. And I most certainly don't need to surrender any more of my privacy to the likes of Dario Amodei or Sam Altman.
I have an "old" Mac Mini M1 sitting over there on the shelf. I'm sure I will do just fine with whatever open-source model it is capable of hosting.