The expanding dark forest and generative AI
This is just a reminder for me to unplug from the Internet further than I need to do my banking, pay bills and research various ideas that may be of use in future projects (personal or my employers), and invest more time in friends, family and local community instead. As I&#x27;m getting older I was already doing that; I&#x27;ve never really spent a whole lot of time on Internet forums anyway.<p>I&#x27;ve enjoyed playing with ChatGPT and I have a copy of Stable Diffusion at home, they are of some utility, if you take the output with a giant bag of salt.<p>The people I feel for are those who have retreated from or are uncomfortable in society in general and whom invest all their time in Internet communities, since they will be the most vulnerable. I&#x27;m fully aware of the irony that some might sceptically believe that this comment itself is AI-generated rather than written by a human; and that any responses may well be cut &amp; pasted from ChatGPT, and I keep that in mind that when reading and writing.