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Sunday, 3 August 2025

AI FREE ZONE


Much as I like to declare myself a cell phone free zone, the less dogmatic truth is that I actually have continually owned cell phones since 1998. But I seldom use them, and I really did decide to leave the stupid things turned off at all times back in 2002.

 My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that I bought second hand in 2019. I take it out of the house about once a week, usually keep it in a different room to the one I'm in, nearly always leave it turned off, and pretty much only use it to receive login confirmations a couple of times a week. 

It's my sixth cell phone and despite being seven years old, it's in mint condition. When it eventually stops working I'll probably replace it with a newer refurbished phone that I won't use either.

Which brings me to AI. Right now I'm looking at AI a bit like I was looking at cell phones in 2002. Yes AI is going to be the next big thing, but I think it sucks, and I want as little to do with it as possible. So I'm saying right now, as far as possible, I refuse to use or interact with AI. 

It's now estimated that around 50% of all internet activity is AI. The worst social media platform for AI is said to be Twitter ("X"), with around 75% of all content and activity being AI. I never look at Twatter myself because it's all utter crap, but I do look at Youtube (which is mostly utter crap as well). On YouTube it's glaringly obvious that the majority of the content, comments, and hits are AI. I suspect that it's actually more than 75% AI now, and climbing rapidly.

 

On Facebook which is the only social media platform I still use, the AI is rampant as well. But I don't think I'm interacting with it much, I mainly just get friend requests from women with huge boobs, no posts, and only about five friends. So really obvious fakes. I suspect a few of my "friends" are scammers, but I think those are dodgy real people rather than AI.

This may well turn out to be delusional and I could be getting conned by dozens of AI accounts, happily up-voting their fake content, or cheerfully commenting that they are lame and gay without realising I'm talking to a cell phone bot in some giant bot farm warehouse.


 Delusional or not, I'm keeping an eye out for anything that has signs of being AI. And if it looks like it might be,  I'm out of there. I suspect that there may come a time when I sound like a Luddite, but that is probably a good thing!