Die Mad About AI

A few years ago, the question of whether AI was a good thing was worth having. Even more worthy of discussion was whether AI output (specifically the creative/artistic kind) was any good. But it's 2026 now, and both of those questions are settled. No, AI creative output isn't and can't be as good as human-made content, and AI companies (with all their positive and negative effects) aren't going anywhere. They will only grow. That's it. That's all.

Now my opinions on AI center around the people who spend the most time talking about it, and those opinions have gone from mild distaste to full-on irritation. In short, I can't stand these fuckers.

A few months ago, a commenter on one of my YouTube videos accused the painting behind me of being AI-generated. First of all, why would you say that? What does that have to do with the video you just watched? And second, you're wrong. Strange how he didn't have a reply when I dropped the link to the artist's website.

If this seems like a one-off to you, it isn't. This is the caliber of person now policing the internet for AI usage. This man couldn't tell the difference between a print of an oil painting and DALL-E output, and his entire investigative methodology consisted of squinting at a screen and deciding it looked suspicious, which was apparently all the evidence he needed to appoint himself auditor of my decorating skills.

I've also had multiple comments on my videos over the years accuse my scripts of being AI. Which is weird, because it's only in the last month I started using scripts AT ALL. Since 2019, all of my videos were contemporaneous. I'd sit down with bullet points, talk, and that's the whole production. It's also why video editing took so damn long. Many takes, much stuttering, too much swearing. Dog barking. Yet still there were accusations of AI "scripts."

Well, now I am using scripts, the comments have tripled, and hear me when I tell you I have no patience for them.

You'll notice my responses are never short of snippy and that's intentional. It's not a loss of bearing or temper. It's a purposeful expression of disdain.

These accusers are illiterate, and I mean that precisely. They don't remember what text sounded like before 2014, before the internet flattened everyone's prose into the same algorithmic paste. I do remember, because I've been reading and writing professionally for a very long time, and I'm done pretending these accusations deserve a measured response.

Finally! A "Watermark" to Catch the Cheaters!

What brought all this up again in my personal list of grievances was the explosion of anger at Anthropic's announcement that all Claude models launched on or after August 2 now embed invisible watermarks in generated text. The watermarks are applied globally, across every product surface and cloud partner, worldwide. Google has already implemented similar measures, all to comply with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which requires AI providers to include machine-readable markings in generated content.

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