2026-04-01T13:25:26

Isn't it funny, or maybe ironic is a better word, that we, or many of us develop
this sort of double standards for the use of AI:

We want to use it to make things easy, fast, efficient for ourselves.  And THAT
is just fine.  We don't want to consume things done by others using those same
tools.  And THAT is most reasonable.

It reminds me of myself where I picked up Python as a hobby but I avoided as far
as feasable to use software written in Python, looking for things in C, C++,
rust, etc. And isn't that also reasonable in a way? 

So I think, why do I not want to read stuff written by ai, even if under strict
supervision of an expert? 


Some reasons:

Q: how do I know that you know what you're talking about?

Online anyone can try to be anyone. I could try to style myself into a physics
researcher at some fancy sounding lab in some place you know nothing about.
Once upon a time you'd need to do a lot of heavy lifting to do so and plagarize
stuff, maybe translate it, change it slightly. It would be quit a bit of work.
Now it would be more work for someone to verify another person than for that
person to produce mass of rubbish. And if that happened? Well, not much unless
one was famous enough to have some reputation one could get damaged. 

For a guy like me, writing here anonymously, I have no reputation to loose.  You
don't know what I know. You can't verify me. I might be just talking for the
sake of some end that's not obvious but that is not truthful.

Q: if you can't be bothered to do the work, why should I bother?

If you produced a generic, and probably error ridden text (because, again, you
have little fear of damaging your reputation by talking rubbish) in span of few
minutes, why would I spend about equal time to read it? I could just ask AI
myself on this directly and maybe even get more useful info because I can check
sources, can know how it was produced, how much effort was put into making sure
that it is close to something semi-sensible. 

Q: if there's no human touch  can you expect human engagement?

Now information is mostly cheap and quick to come by. Most of us are bloated
with undigested info slop like a force fed French goose. So often we're not
looking for information but rather for experience, for connection, for origianl
take on something. Highly specialized knowledge can hardly be found on
mainstream web anyway. Those who need it know where to look for it. And it's not
on your crappy blog, for certain. 

Example:

I was looking for information for my master thesis. I knew almost all literature
and knew that it was only vaguelly alluded to. But I wanted precision. So I did
what a 90's kid does and went on a formum dedicated to the broad topic. Nothing.
Then after few days some doctor wrote to me and gave me a link to a paper.  From
that paper I gathered new information. I then contacted the author of that paper
via mail and established a connection, got the information and am now in
possession of information that no one in my country seems to have.

Another examle: 

I wanted a book that was out of print. Contacted the author. He sent me three
books via pdf free of charge (their total cost, besides the fact that they were
out of print) would be at least 60 USD if lucky. Then he called me, we spoke for
two hours and became friends to this day. How's that for an experience and a
human touch?