Mikiesboy

“We can’t heal the world in a day. But we can begin with a voice of compassion, a heart of love, and an act of kindness.” —Mary Davis

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” —Buddha

We use Uber and regular taxis, and we tip them mostly. It was an Uber driver who rescued me and got me home from work during a massive snow storm buses could not get through. He got a massive tip, so did the guy who helped us haul a giant portable AC home. But i don't like the tipping culture generally and frankly, people should not be expected to tip in order to boost people's income. A tip is for doing more than expected. But too many employers don't pay people for the work they do and expect that tips will make up the shortfall. To me, that's wrong. In my world people would be paid a living wage and then, if I want to thank them for something I can give a tip, but it shouldn't be a way of life. However, i know it's not my world, and we tip servers and drivers 99% of the time.

Hmmm, i think i may be hungry.. it makes me grumpy.. gonna go and eat.

Why are we expected to just accept crap? These people who program this stuff should be told. And if people do and don't renew then they'll fix it. It's overpriced tat. And you can cancel whenever you want to, it won't auto renew and you still use it until the end.

That is why i stopped paying for Grammarly and use my little independent one. It's motto should be; Editor's gonna edit. It's ridiculous and expensive.

Changing the subject ... do people no longer have manners? Can't they say please or thank you? Ugh.

Tell it check for punctuation only. I like Claude, it's interesting to use.

You can use AI and just use it to edit.. but you have to spell out that you don't want any other suggestions.

It can be controlled, but someone has to be willing to do that. Currently, there doesn't seem to be much appetite for that, however.

We can't escape AI altogether, unless you don't use a tool like Grammarly. My issue isn't with those things, but I stopped using Grammarly. I use an AI tool which edits for punctuation, spelling and it tells me when a word is overused, but that's about all. Hopefully, it stays that way. My human editor often changes things though once she gets hold of it. My issue is with people who just use it to write their whole story. I look forward to reading your story.

Yes. That's very true. Tons of them. It loves 'ly' words and smilies and the speech! No talks like that.

There's a lot of it around. AI can write you a book in ten minutes ... why bother doing it yourself? I think about how long it actually takes me to write. The Searcher and Changes took me years to write. Years. Now I can ask Claude, or coPilot or ChatGPT for a book, and it will write whatever I say I want. It's mostly repetitive junk but hey, why not? It shoves so many ideas into a few sentences, our brains think it's brilliant. But if you really stop and read it, it's just words and ideas tossed together to say the same things over and over. AI slop. I do like AI and think it can be useful. But we've talked about all of this before. But that fact that people post this junk as their own, and people praise them for how wonderful it is - people who claim to hate AI - just leaves me feeling like why should I spend years writing and editing and making it right? I'm struggling with that right now, my problem, I know. No one really will care ... their needs are being met by 'authors' using AI.

Leave her a note saying we'll add it when you drop it off with the recommended dosage.

Wow, poor GA being overwhelmed by bots. Maybe coming to read all the AI stories being posted.