1000 words, right.

But what about 1500? Or 2K? Or a whole book?

I refer, of course, to the famous adage about a picture, and its painting abilities... Anyways..

Yes, AI can create actual images, pictures. This is awesome and scary in equal measure, but also, as most know but don't quite fully appreciate, AI can create text.

Text is awesome. Every computer system I've ever worked had a text editor launch on boot. Everything begins as text; Poetry, HTML, code, scripts, plays, sermons, all the good stuff.

Crucially, you can put ideas into text. And of course, nothing is more powerful than ideas.

Follow the logic train?

So, AI is creating Ideas?

No. AI is re-creating our ideas. Unless trained or fine-tuned otherwise; something I occasionally help with. Essentially, AI recreates what we create, except without accreditation, as it's en-masse ideas, as opposed to actual ideas.

And there's the rub (Oh fuck, here comes Scotland Yard, again), if you like, quite literally.

Sure; a local LLM may not be up-to-date with your local takeaway prices, but it will "joyfully" assist you with the best way to, for example, dispose of a recently-murdered body, abduct a small child from their parents, remove DNA evidence, make explosives from everyday items, extract potent drugs from everyday pharmaceuticals .. Do I need to go on?

I mean, I'm a writer, I could go on all day and my AI would be all Stone Face and raise me twenty, and I would die of starvation before my "assistant" ran out of ways to joyfully assist me with, well, anything. And I do mean ANYTHING. Meta's latest LLama is particularly good with scrubbing DNA evidence. If I ever commit a murder, I know exactly where to go for advice!

And not only assist, but (and this is the crux here) suggest new methods to improve success, or evade capture, or remove evidence, and so on.. Things your average punter definitely didn't consider, not being versed in humanity's entire corpus of crime fiction, police reports, etc., etc..

I see an AI cat-and-mouse up ahead.

But hey, we have governments, and they spend billions of our hard-earned bucks on something? Surely they they have a dozen think-tanks already on this. Right?

Nope. They are just sitting, waiting for someone else to make a move.

California (home of 99% of the world's revenue by the time I finish writing this, probably) did.

The last (and only) time I was in California, I thought it was an amazing place. I toured its vast expanse, enjoyed its laid-back, hip, open-minded culture, swam the pools, gave interviews, loved the bars and baked in the heat, especially that Death Valley, boy oh boy! I enjoyed it hugely, and vowed never to return.

But I always considered it a beacon of sorts; zipping ahead, Tron-style, with humanity's tech baton in hand. Then the governor of California decided that the recently minted (and albeit not perfect, but at least A STEP in some direction) AI bill should die. And so it died. Oh shit.

I genuinely don't know what's going to happen now. Governments are so far behind the curve it's staggering. By the time they wake up, every criminal entity on the planet will be *EXPERT*, and our "leaders" will be scrambling to even begin comprehending how to begin understanding how to keep up.

In other words (I may have mentioned this previously; and by no means am I a doomsayer but, well), we are fucked.

I've had a great life. I can check out now happy, or just sit back and watch y'all burn and scream while I wag my finger sayin' "told ya!".

Rockin' on my rocking chair now, enjoying a cold one as the sun goes down; life is good. Healthy children sleeping, gently swaying in their hammocks. The youngest (still in a Brazilian hammock, though a proper Mayan hammock will soon be his) snores gently in a deep, dreamless sleep.

His tablet is checked for dark patterns. He has Karate twice a week in his Dojo and every day at home. My point?

It's out of control now. Forget governments stepping in and making shit safe. That isn't happening. You need to step up and prepare your kids for a future devoid of fixed reality points1.

Basic concepts count for everything. A simple thing like greed can change (i.e. Fuck) the world. Children devoid of greed make good EVERYTHING; politicians, business leaders, teachers, you name it. Same goes for the other deadly sins.

Thanks California. YOU are my tipping point. I give up on the world now. Fuck you!

I'm gonna get my kids ready for the shitstorm that's coming. Lotta work to do.

You, do your own thing.

;o)