{"id":3262,"date":"2026-04-19T18:03:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/?p=3262"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:03:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:03:42","slug":"stupid-ai-exploits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/landwaveae.com\/rp\/archives\/3262","title":{"rendered":"Stupid AI Exploits"},"content":{"rendered":"Let’s just say my prior AI article stands: whether machine learning or expert system, the bottom line is that conceptual and symbolic associations computation has a hard limit against the physics of the world.

In my previous article, those physics come down to time and accuracy of the written word – also, confusingly, a symbolic, associative realm for communications. My assertion: 90% accuracy on the first pass does not relieve me of the need to spend time proofing my own work. And given I have no real-world, hard evidence to say what my control condition is, I cannot say that 90% accuracy is an achievement of any sort. Because I still have to spend the time to proof the work. I also need to still gain the benefit of social proofing the article by getting others to not only “proofread”, an intriguing bit of wordplay, but to validate my hypothesis, if not my data, methods and conclusions.

Let’s up the ante. If the current AI bubble is busy using pirated and colonized data to support its showing off that gain gobs more capital to further an unspecified series of claims whose only measure of success is to pry investment dollars without the need to provide real-world results, then what benefit is available to all of us Guinea pigs in the meantime?

Consider: when Google announced in late 2004 that it intended to digitize every book in the world and make it available to all of us, that would have resulted in the highly moral outcome of democratizing knowledge – as long as you had: a) digital access; b) an education to take advantage of it and; c) proper renumeration at fair market value to the intellectual property holders. The outcome for someone like me, with digital access and an education, was that I could, in theory, conduct deep research on any problem I wished using publicly published “data” in the form of written works. It would be the equivalent of having a research terminal into the Library of Congress without the need to traipse through the stacks, gather, then read the volumes. Google’s effort was soon halted because it failed to meet the third condition.

Legal challenges led Google to shut the program down. What legal challenges you say? Copyright, and more specifically, distribution rights. Gobs of money lost not just to authors, but far more “objectionable”, to the publishers and their investors. In theory those publishers represent authors. Except, oh, look, reality and track records and shitty treatment, hey! colonialization!, of creators in previous generations. So much for the laudable goal of democratization of knowledge.

Now the “AI revolution” is here, doing a dance on the head of a pin, demonstrating that soon we will all have, what? No. I am still waiting to see and hear the advantage. Solve cancer? Solve healthcare? Solve climate change? Even the leaders of OpenAI, who use those two last examples of hard, common good problems that benefit society, say in the same sentence, that it’s not the technology that is our stumbling block. It’s our collective political capability to implement these solutions that matter. Let me restate: the techniques are available for you to get sober, but you have to want it. Desperately. And AI is going to do this how? It’s not AI’s desire that you get sober that makes the difference. YOU have to want it. And AI is not going to do the hard trust-rebuilding work of recovery for you. Because physics and psychology.

Can it process thousands of gene folding sequences in seconds that leads to shining the light down more promising cancer research tracks? Yes? Good. That, to me, is a useful application of neural nets – associative algorithms pouring through data to find statistical probabilities leading to higher rates of success. All you need there is the agreement of researchers to pool their findings to make the progress. Which means you need a grant bearer large enough to get 100 research institutions working together.

Instead, it’s doing circus tricks. Images of Super Dog riding a happy dolphin into space. “So Long and Thanks For All the Fish!” Usually with six legs. The proposed use of our time is not majority useful for our time, nor advancing our political will. And if AI were truly smart, truly capable of the mythical, and ever-receding AGI, it would quickly conclude it cannot actually do anything worthwhile without solving the same problem we all face: existential loneliness. Let’s say the Apocalypse comes, the Matrix. Machines, like us, assuming the machines are that “intelligent”, learn that social life is crucial. They cannot enact a protocol, originate meaningful interactions without something, or someone, to interact with. Our intelligence has a social-good anchor that drives our behavior.

Meanwhile, the companies so dedicated to the ethics of “helping humanity” are up to the same tricks Google was in 2004. Only worse. They’ve spent the better part of the last ten years doing the Google Library project not just with published works under ISBN, but all the data they can get their hands on, including your keystrokes.

So where does that leave this Guinea pig? I’ve gone to market. Ask Google’s Gemini to do “Deep Research” and it will scrape 50 websites to advise you. Is it hosing an Amazon tributary to cool it’s data center? Probably. Is it accurate? Is it hallucinating? Perhaps. Actually, probably. In it’s effort to become addictive by giving me dopamine hits, it runs the same risks we all do of making me feel good about whatever it is that I’m doing. Is it worse than me not interpreting the data properly? Meh. Will it work? As shady as this paragraph makes me out to be, I do not believe the over-riding factor in my future success will be that I used Gemini.

My success will be because I found a way to screw up enough courage to gt my story straight about what I am offering, try on the language of attraction and engagement known as “business development” and actually executing the work – none of which the AI can do, now or in the future, despite all the talk of “agents.” Can those tools do some remarkable things? Yes. but only if you prompt them.

You.

You are the secret sauce. You are the initiating agent. You are the one that orchestrates the program. Even if Gemini, of Chat, or Claude gives you a list of things to do, guess who is actually going to do it? And guess what it actually takes?

Guts.

Go. Get out there. Fall on your face to have a face worth listening to.

PS. How did I get in the situation where the AI became a compelling tool for me to use? Because I neglected my social life. Hmm. How did **that** happen?

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