A collection of random thoughts which have occurred to me, mostly written in a disjointed fashion, as they're written to only really be understood by myself. Feel free to read though, even if it may be read like the ramblings of a maniac. If you're looking for my essays and writing which is much more well put-together, please check the blog.

03/06/2025: AI is ruining everything, including newspapers

If you think that AI is just a tool and won't ruin the arts, writing and even newspaper/news publishers, then I'd like to say that it's actually happening.

Recently, a publisher called the Chicago Sun-Times had released a summer book list, which was "written" by a freelance journalist who used an AI-generator to curate the list. This resulted in AI hallucinations, with the list claiming that famous authors had written non-existent books or that one author had written a work which was actually by another author. The list claimed that Min Jin Lee, the writer behind Pachinko, had wrote a book called "Nightshade Market". This wasn't true, resulting in Lee having to state so on Twitter:

Here're a few articles on the incident as well, if you wish to fact-check me, one of which being by Chicago Sun-Times.

How an AI-generated summer reading list got published in major newspapers

Syndicated content in Sun-Times special section included AI-generated misinformation

Recently, I've also heard about an art gallery in NYC having AI-generated exhibits. Here's the video:

I'm sick of people shrugging and acting as though these things are silly, funny little mishaps. AI will destroy everything, not in The Terminator way, but it will take over our art, our means of expression. In a world where everything seems artificial, where almost every second we have companies trying to sell things to us, where we have our hobbies stolen and made as nothing more than a consumerist hell-scape where you must do nothing but throw your money away, art is all we have and now that's being stolen as well.

We need to stop laughing about these things. It's not funny, it's serious and needs to stop. If we dismiss this as a joke, the problem will grow and the moment we acknowledge it will be the moment it's too late. I'm tired of having people tell me that I'm paranoid for seeing what's fucking happening.

Maybe it'd be better if humanity is wiped out by AI like in sci-fi movies, because I'd rather be dead than live in a world where there's no real art.

30/05/2025: There's something about Evas and AI

Because my current hyper-fixations are Evangelion and studying religion, I suddenly thought that maybe AI is in a way similar to the Evas, somewhat of a machine but made in man's image. How an AI uses logic, thought patterns, etc, the creation of the "intelligence" is like a bastardised, overly simplified attempt at replicating how humans come to conclusions on certain topics. The algorithm of how an artificial "intelligence" generates its content is the best that man can come to in creating something which works in a similar way to our brains.

Like how Christianity believes that God created man in his image but it wasn't an exact replica, with man having potential to sin, man has created AI in his image which is also heavily flawed, with AI missing most that is in man.

In a way, could you consider Evangelion prophetic? Not to an exact, but still having predicted to some capacity the world's current state? Not only had we a global disaster with the covid-19 (second impact), we've truly seen AI "boom" afterwards -- like how Evangelion had the Evas made in man's image afterwards. The Evas are also used by humans as tools, like how humans use AI as a tool.

29/05/2025: My favourite Russian word

I'm learning Russian and my favourite word in the language, so far, is 'надрывы'. It can't be literally translated into English, with the closest being "crack-ups" or "tear", but with the use of "tear" and "crack-ups" it's the tearing of the mind into hysterics, the cracking-up to that point. I had encountered the word from The Brothers Karmazov, with the fourth book being titled 'надрывы'.