Artificial Intelligence The Scapegoat

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Original content is in short supply.

Artificial intelligence is an excuse. We gave away the right to jump start the brain a long time ago, long before social media. The internet, only removed it from the drawer and put it on the table, because we share and re-tweet thoughts and videos. Sorry. Hit the back space button. Twitter is X now, so re-tweet is no longer a word. Let’s try re-X. 

‘Did you get my re-X.’

‘Your what?’

‘Re-X.’

I blame things I don’t understand. That’s why artificial intelligence (AI) is my current scapegoat. I blame it for the brain tumor. We refuse to use common sense, one of nature’s greatest gifts. Taking a selfie on top of a building so that you can get a bird’s eye view of Toronto, is a bad idea, so does trying that in lion-infested game reserves. Of course, there were no lions when you raised that phone, now your family is in mourning.

Our brain is such a block of ice, even AI warns us. Are you sure, you want to delete this photo or discard this post? If you exit, you’ll lose all your changes. Because the brain is on hold, we don’t double check if we really want to take that selfie.

We Google the rain when it’s raining, instead of stepping out to gauge how intense it is. It might be a soothing spring rain or climate-change-I’m-mad-at-all-of-you thunder storms, that break trees and destroy parked cars.

I wonder how YouTube deals with re-hashed content. One person comes up with original content, ten pseudo-creators pop up from nowhere, overnight.

By: Nonqaba waka Msimang.

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