What do 2025 AI and parrots have in common?

 AI reflects linguistics

the way a mirror reflects your image

AI has become a dark mirror. The LLMs learn (if one can call it that) by gathering quantity rather than quality and presenting it back to us.

It has become a reflection of popularity rather than probability.

The coding is bad and sloppy at the moment. The algorithms and software do not take into consideration that I do not want opinions written by teenagers or recommendations that are not specific to what I'm actually looking for.

This is driven by investors and big corporations. Thirty percent of the global market is invested in AI. If it crashes because the returns are not there, it will take the rest of the market down with it.

Of course the business model is drive up profits and reduce costs of employees. 

A major concern is the replacement of what actually makes us human: the Arts. There are many reports and documentaries by artists that they are being replaced. A tool that is supposed to help is giving us the trashy romance novel equivalent of language and literature in all aspects of what historically has been used to  inspire and calm us.

I call it parroting.

While parrots are smart, I doubt that they all truly understand everything that they are repeating.

Here's a little hilarious video of what I mean:

https://youtube.com/shorts/OV5NTlJrtOw

I thought of writing a humorous anecdotal post about tropical parrots in non tropical settings and recalled my incredible frustration a few years ago when I was taking a few quick pictures, tried to zoom in and rather than simply giving me a blurred image, AI processed it by applying filters that make a photograph look like a cartoon. The main concern is that I did not tell it to. Fixing my mistakes when I draw or paint is an automatic process and part of the artist experience. Often such mistakes lead to better results. 

The Japanese art of Kintsugi believes that a broken piece of pottery becomes more beautiful when repaired, a philosophy applied to human suffering that once broken one becomes stronger and better through the healing process.

Fixing the time consuming mistake of a program impedes creativity. Most of what we are aggressively offered relies on CGI technoligy used in movies. If I want to see a dragon or alien, the technology does what it is meant to do. However, the technology in reverse achieves the opposite.

Photographs evoke memories. They are passed down through generations. They make us remember moments long forgotten. 

Above is the parrot in a tree. A tree that looks like a japanese anime reflection of nature rather than the original. It is becoming increasingly difficult to discern AI editing online. Movements and expressions appear wrong, images are altered and while I delight in human skill and talent, there is no admiration for a program.

Welcome to the Matrix. You are now the kinetic energy that taps on key boards and screens to power robotic AI.

I believe that the big tech company that heeds science fictions' warnings rather than try to implement it, will see the financial returns it so craves. We are the customers after all.