We have our reasons

Wild roses at Suzanne Arlie Park, May 4.

“AI hallucinations”... “AI sycophancy” (from recent headlines)... well, let me add AI laziness, AI hubris, AI sloppiness, AI inaccuracy. Etc. From extensive personal experience with both ChatGPT and Grok, I can verify that all of these exist, and all are significant problems for people trying to use AI chatbots in good faith. I unsubscribed from X Premium—which I’d paid for only to use Grok3—after less than a month because all of the referenced issues were ruining my experience. It came down to this: I don’t trust Grok. I’m not totally in the “Fuck AI” camp, but that attitude garners a lot of my sympathy.

It’s Monday morning, almost 6 a.m., and I want to get on the air, but my RFR transmitter/streaming computer is crunching through updates. So I decided to blog.

We’ve joined the philistines: the Randoms have acquired a weed wacker. What’s next, a fucking leaf blower? A power mower? Well, we have our reasons, but we’re not particularly proud of them. We do still have our boutique craft acoustic push lawnmower, and we’ll only use the “string trimmer” on weedy areas that have gotten too out of control to manage by pulling and scything. But it feels like a slippery slope toward conventional noisy yard care threatens just over the horizon. Nooooo!!!