Today is the day I start my own #AITeaParty. I am throwing that shit in the harbor and I invite you to do the same.

For reasons, I am documenting multiple generations of birth certificates. I have scanned some and been emailed some. I want them all together in a good place and I started to upload them to my #Paperless install in my docker. Then I thought "Is this fucking thing hooked up to any #AI anything? Will my family's birth certificates become part of a training set if I collect them in this place?"

The fact that I had to go and check before I put sensitive information in a tool under my full control was a wake-up call. I am disconnecting everything from everything because I don't want to ever think that thought again.

I have my #Karakeep hooked up to #OpenAI but I am disconnecting it today. I'd rather not have automatically generated tags than the history of what I find interesting in a training set. They are cute but not worth it.

Generalizing from there: is there any benefit I receive from any generative AI process worth the risks of touching it at all, or of it having any aspect of my data? Fuck no. Today's the day. I've been an indifferent but unmotivated critic. From this second on, I vow to remove it from anything under my control. If it is a third or fourth party risk because the product I use, I will work to extract myself and my data from those products. If your work product was generated in whole or in part with generative AI tools, I don't want it. If you think they are a good idea, I don't want you and your judgement affecting me.

Clearly this is an uphill climb because the percentage of commercial products and freelancers that use #OpenAI or #Gemini or #Grok or #HellscapeAI rounds to everything. It won't be perfect and it won't be easy but I have the time and energy and I'm fired up.

#FuckAI