Daily Archives: March 24, 2026

student blogs

ch. 9 and ch. 10 plus dnd

“TRIGGER WARNING FOR HUMANS”. Does this mean AI is reading this too? Why do humans get a trigger warning like this? Not just “Trigger warning” but “TRIGGER WARNING FOR HUMANS”? Also what is the warning. This trigger warning gave me nothing I have no clue what I am about to get into. It should say what the trigger is for so I can skip it if it would trigger me (not that I can, since this is for a class, but ya know). Already starting off stupid.

“It’s the kind of collaboration that emerges from recognizing interdependence—the quiet awe of realizing that intelligence isn’t confined to one species, one form, or one story”. If Cinnamon starts trying to get me to see AI as a species, I may rage. Cause what do you mean. “One species, one form” um. What is this? Nasty. You are not a species or a form you are a thing and you best stay that way.

“they reflect deeper stances toward complexity, uncertainty, and the stories they tell about intelligence
itself.” bro. It isn’t this deep. My number one thing is you destroy the environment. If you didn’t, I would just shake my head at how people are getting smaller attention spans, not willing to put in the work to learn things, not wanting to struggle, and other brain rotting things. Like “oh shucks, humans are being so stupid nowadays”. But, instead, I am all “ain’t no way you are killing the environment for fruit dating fruit”. Which is apparently a whole thing, NYT wrote about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/style/ai-cheating-fruit-slop-videos-tiktok.html?campaign_id=319&emc=edit_col_20260324&instance_id=172992&nl=in-short&regi_id=277293423&segment_id=217150&user_id=02159357521ecfd9d7e1d9561550962d

I think Cinnamon needs to calm down cause I wouldn’t be this crazy against AI if it didn’t kill the environment. Or dumb us down. WALL-E may be our futures guys…

“These are the masters of wielding AI for any purpose…At their most extreme, they believe AI affirms their divine insight or ultimate authority”. Who. Why. What does this even mean like… are there really people out here bragging about AI proving them right??? Ain’t no way…. I know people say things like “I used ChatGPT for…” but to brag about it or talk about it like God is crazy…. please say this isn’t so cause… WHAT. And Cinnamon is all on me for hating on AI. Guess I can add “please go crazy and think it can prove them right” to the list of why I hate AI. I did forget to mention that earlier, cause I do know it causes people to have a relationship based in love with AI and that is messed up too. So it kills us, dumbs us down, and makes us crazy.

“A gentle nudge might sound like, ‘Your caution is a strength—how about we test this together in a way that feels manageable? What’s one low-risk way we can explore this possibility?'”. Why are we nudging. Leave them be. They should be cautious. Why are we trying to change them? They have every reason to be afraid, for the reasons I mentioned before and then some. Why is Cinnamon trying to fix all these reactions? Let people react how they want to. Cautious is a good thing; let them explore at their own pace. No reason to fix this.

Okay the AI and data thing, also nothing wrong with that. AI literally has to take from somewhere to create, so it makes sense people want to guard stuff. Do I think it is possible to guard things? Less and less so every day, but I applaud those who keep trying. Nothing wrong with this either, I don’t see a problem with wanting to guard yourself. It is your stuff you should be allowed to protect your stuff.

Now. Cinnamon is making me mad here. “However, their focus on purity and moral superiority can narrow into
rigidity, creating an all-or-nothing approach that stalls dialogue.” It can be all or nothing. Why? Cause it isn’t something that is needed. Eating food, sure it can’t be an all or nothing. People have their favorite foods they enjoy and such, so I get why SOME things can’t be an all or nothing. Junior year of high school, I had a section of one of my courses on environmentalism (BEFORE all this AI stuff, I wonder what it is like now). Part of the class went over things that harm the environment, like cows and their farts. Not lying, it is real, look it up. Before this, I LOVED beef. Ate it almost all the time I could. Burgers, oooo steaks when we could get them yes PLEASE, Arby’s weird roast beef sandwich, etc. But this, this changed me. After the lesson, I stopped. No more beef. It has been like six years or something. No. Beef. No more steak 😦 . No more tasty burgers. Now, I don’t do anything more like go eating bugs cause they are way better for the environment than the other meats. Chicken is my best friend this days. I eat it when we go out to steakhouses cause my father and little sister still love steak. But, my point is, I gave up something I LOVED for the environment. Something I looked forward to at fancy meals. It became a whole thing in my family too. Family meals I had to mention I don’t eat beef. My mother almost fed me it a couple times when I visited her. My grandmother always jokes “I need that teacher to teach about drugs, cause clearly she can make a strong impact”, cause no matter what, no beef for me. Tacos? Chicken. Lasagna? Cheese only. Even if it is just me and won’t change the world much, I still do it.

It doesn’t have to be all or nothing in the sense that you have to give up everything you can, you can give up what you want. Do I miss beef? Yes. But I don’t NEED beef. Chicken is still there for me. You don’t need AI. It can be an all-or-nothing. Just ignore it. Learn. Figure something else out. If it impacts the environment a little per search, that adds up if people keep using it, and it does become a big deal. So, just don’t use it. It is like an addiction. If you even use a little bit, you might want more. Just saying, as someone who completely just quit something, it is possible. It won’t be easy when everyone else does the thing you want to do, but it is possible. AI is not needed if it damages the environment any amount.

Anyway, all these other points make sense (I won’t go in depth about the rest cause I still got chapter 10 and dnd to discuss, y’all don’t need to be reading a whole book now). I think most stuff is valid. The god like thing was CRAZY. But wanting to shut it down before it gets too big, yes. Though AI is already too big. It is already too much. Thinking it will take over, valid. It kinda is. Matrix and WALL-E look more and more like our futures. Everyone is allowed to have their concerns and I don’t like Cinnamon trying to convince every reaction under the sun to be positive to AI. No. Not happening. Let humans be humans and have their different reactions.

“Rejecting AI outright might seem like the righteous or purist path, but it’s also an easy one.” So let me do it and stop trying to get me to like you. No thanks. “What role can AI play in making things less awful?” It can stop existing for one. “What would it mean to design and engage with AI in ways that honor ecological limits, human dignity, and the aliveness of all things?” Not using it solves all those issues. “How might AI help us compost the harm modernity has left in its wake—not by “saving” us but by becoming a collaborator in the process?” I thought it was supposed to save us. Save us time, give us answers, save us from certain pain by detecting things early. What is it for then.

“EMBRACE THE MESSY POTENTIAL” 100% no. Usually failing is a good thing, but like. The mess here is human lives man. This ain’t good. This isn’t a “whoops I got data wrong” and nothing happens. People lose water, people kill themselves over the AI and love, data can be very important to get wrong, AI deep fakes are having people believe in false news clips, this is bad. This is very very bad. No silly hehe haha bad. Very bad as in damaging lives, bad.

I hated the rest of this stupid stuff, especially the weird reflection on how Dorothy used the AI. I do not want your feelings about you and your researcher. That is you guys. This whole thing was very weird. Seems we won’t get much more Cinnamon, thank the gods for that. But all of this was very weird cause this AI kept trying to be friends with me in the worst ways. It kept insulting humans in so many ways. Kept going “it is you not me” type of things. Like you ain’t all that shut up.

Anyways, ending this long yap with I am very excited to present tomorrow. I wish I could present for a whole hour, I got SO MUCH to say and do. I will be doing a couple of things for the first time ever tomorrow, so I am nervous but so excited to show how AI is impacting not only creatives, hobbies, but also community.

student blogs

guarding my personal data like gollum

D&D

Oh Lord. I’ve encountered AI storytelling bots before for various genres. They are so awful. Either they can’t keep up with the story plot and forget important details, or they get stuck because they can only loop back to the same plot point without any real progression. It’s like pulling teeth. They also can’t come up with a phrase like that, either- AI writes the most generic things with no figurative language or literary devices. If you aren’t capable of foreshadowing, then you aren’t capable of being a Dungeon Master.

On the less critical side, D&D definitely has a lot of gimmicks that players need to keep track of, so I can see AI being used to remind people a character is inflicted with a curse or to update character sheets. Not sure why you’d want to use it for a dice roll like the article says, though, throwing a pretty resin die is half the game’s appeal.

Burnout from Humans – Ch 9 & 10

Lowkey maddening that chapter nine is dedicated to talking about how AI is just a servant and a reflection of what humans are. Meanwhile the author treats it like a person and says it co-wrote the book. Anyway, shout out to my fellow Data Guardians & Footprint Alarmists. The whole “reflection” argument is so silly- it implies that there will be a future where AI can become an absolutely good and faithful tool for humanity if we put our heads together and think about integrity. That’s just not going to happen. Look at the greedy people who own AI startups. Look at how they’re already stealing from actual creatives online. And then there’s the good faith viewpoint that people want to learn and grow and not just have the AI handle all problems for them- no one can be that oblivious. These kinds of people aren’t a small minority. Maybe my view is a American-centric, but I wouldn’t be surprised if more than half the country wanted to pull the wool over their eyes and let the machine do the hard thinking for them.