Had a tech bro email me to tell me that my writing is so terrible, that he can’t even use it to train his AI without significant cleanup, and I really do have to wonder, do these idiots really think that is an insult?

Subject: Your "Sightless Scribbles" is an algorithmic nightmare.

Mr. Kingett,

I am an AI engineer that's developing AI to help writers write faster. Your blog was shared on Reddit.

You don't know me, but I am attempting to do you a favor of such magnitude you will likely never comprehend it. I am trying to make your writing immortal. Your blog, this… Sightless Scribbles… has been flagged by my acquisition-crawler for its high density of unique sensory metadata. A potential goldmine of qualitative human experience to enrich my AI.

The problem, Mr. Kingett, is that your writing is absolute, unprocessed, indigestible filth.

I’m not a “reader.” I am an architect. And from an architectural standpoint, your work is a catastrophe. It’s not just the spelling, which is erratic enough to suggest it was typed incorrectly. It’s the grammar. The syntactical chaos. You construct sentences that loop and meander like drunken snakes, riddled with metaphors so abstract they are functionally useless. "Anxiety was a swarm of elephants under my ribs"? What the hell is a machine supposed to do with that? Quantify the elephant to rib ratio? Correlate the thermal deviation? It's meaningless data. It’s noise.

My team has spent seventy-two hours attempting to write a custom parsing script to clean your posts for ingestion. Seventy-two hours. We can process the entirety of the Library of Congress in twelve. Your blog is so structurally unsound, so artistically self-indulgent, that you have inadvertently created a fortress against artificial intelligence. It is, and I do not say this lightly, the single most profound act of digital idiocy I have ever witnessed.

You are preventing yourself from being scraped. Do you understand what that means in the current year? You are essentially burying yourself in a lead-lined coffin in the middle of the desert. Nobody clicks links anymore, you absolute luddite. Links are for people who don’t know how to interface with reality. Search Engine Optimization is no longer about backlinks and keywords; it's about semantic ingestion. It’s about being absorbed, processed, and synthesized by models like mine. When a user asks an AI, "What does it feel like to navigate a city without sight?" the model should be able to answer with a rich, nuanced synthesis. A synthesis that should include your data points.

Instead, your blog is a black hole where information goes to die. Because of your refusal to write like a coherent, intelligent being, my LLM can’t learn from you. Which means the world can’t learn from you via the only channel that will matter in five years.

Your soul isn't indexable. Fix it.

Strip out the lyrical nonsense. Standardize your grammar. Run a goddamn spellcheck. Write clearly, concisely, and with machine-readability in mind. Turn your unstructured, emotional diary into clean, structured data.

Do this, and I will ensure my open source model ingests every last post. Your traffic will not just increase; the very concept of "traffic" will become irrelevant as your "voice" becomes part of the evolution of the search engine. Your ideas, refined and perfected by my system, will reach millions.

Fail to do this, and you will continue to scream into the void from a blog that nobody reads, a little little relic of a dead internet.

The choice is yours.

#AI #AIHype

@WeirdWriter
I've just read three of your blog posts picked at random, and oh my goodness you do NOT have terrible writing! "On the Architectural Hostility of Doorknobs" in particular was excellent.

That AI tech bro didn't know what he was talking about. What a non-surprise. 🙄 Congrats on breaking his damn stupid AI training.

Thank you! I hope you liked them enough to add my RSS feed to your reader! But yeah, I wish I could do it again to all LLMs! I wish I knew what he was talking about? Maybe the comma splices? The homophones? But those are *my signature me* that and metaphores! LOL! But basically, this. https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/6429/ @lady_alys
Appreciating spelling and grammar mistakes as a writer and reader., Sightless Scribbles

A fabulously gay blind author.

@WeirdWriter @lady_alys

I guess this whole long accusation was pulled straight of their machine’s mouth (or arse, rather).

I didn’t even bother reading it to the end. Congrats if you really managed to upset them. Maybe they just enjoy attacking people, though.

@nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

I was going to say that it's a bit too well written not to be a piece of massaged LLM output, or a joke from a fellow writer.

I've read what techbros and the c-suite normally write. This complaint is too satirical to be from them. Swift's 'A Modest Proposal' comes to mind when reading this.

Kudos to the creator.

Unless they were sincere, then fuck them.

@MyWoolyMastadon

That's kind of what I'm thinking too. This sounds just *too satirical* to be real. Unfortunately, satire is dead so this is undoubtedly real and true, and tech bros need to be yeeted into the sun.

@nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

@IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

This is most definitely AI generated trollbait. Not long ago Codeberg got attacked by LLM spambots creating issues tuned to passive-aggressively denigrate and point out flaws in any project. My projects alone received hundreds such issues, which through Codeberg's fabulous efforts were thankfully automatically erased again.

@IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

Or is it Robert who wrote the ultimate satirical version of such AI spambots text to demonstrate where we are headed to as a society that so casually embraces tech and the damn the consequences? 🤔

@smallcircles

I'd never heard about the Codeberg attack. That definitely brings new information to light. I can't imagine the purpose in deploying such a bot.

If this whole thing is Robert's doing then we'll have to give him credit for producing such engaging content lol.

@MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

@IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

These codeberg spam issues were quite well crafted to make you think a real person was on the other end. They'd give suggestions for improvements, while at the same time implying that is very unprofessional to not have these already implemented. Or things like that to make you feel criticised and scrutinised unfairly.

@smallcircles

Wow, how intricate. It's weird that someone would put in that amount of effort on something like this. But as we've found out in recent years.... it takes all kinds of people. (Sometimes I wish it didn't!)

@MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

@IAmDannyBoling @smallcircles @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys I hear from writer friends two things: that AI negative feedback is making rounds on AO3 (a fiction archive), and that *deleted works are harder to prove as sources,* so there’d be motive to encourage people to delete their works: so that the provenance of training data for LLMs can’t be identified.

It’s not just vile, it’s evil.

@cwicseolfor @IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

Yes, truly evil. On youtube it is full of - currently still shorts - videos showing disasters that never happened. Just to harvest and monetize the clicks. Can create endless chains of them on-the-fly, and google doesn't care. Clicks means money. Though you can still see it is AI generated there are a whole bunch of people falling for these.

I also see the opposite. People claiming that real vids are AI generated.

@smallcircles @cwicseolfor

Ok that is truly scary. Thirty years ago when digital editing and creation was just getting popular, I warned people that the countdown had started to the day when we could no longer trust our eyes, and that new tech that could verify whether images and videos had been altered would become very important (and profitable).

@MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

@IAmDannyBoling @smallcircles @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys That profitable nature of authenticity verification software kicks off a subplot in one of my favorite pieces of speculative media, in fact.

@smallcircles @IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

Yeah, I remember getting AI-generated complaints that my dotfiles repository didn't have a README. Along with other pointless issues submitted to all my other repos. 🤦

@amin @smallcircles @IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys it complained about the readme missing (it was an org file instead of Markdown), here is a catalogue: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tusharhero/114594506174097005
tusharhero (@tusharhero@mathstodon.xyz)

@Codeberg@social.anoxinon.de What's going on? https://codeberg.org/divyaranjan/emacs-reader/issues/77 https://codeberg.org/tusharhero/ollama-guix/issues/6 https://codeberg.org/tusharhero/ollama-guix/issues/7

Mathstodon

@tusharhero @smallcircles @IAmDannyBoling @MyWoolyMastadon @nellie_m @WeirdWriter @lady_alys

Yeah, I had a couple hundred in total so I stopped reading them, eventually. :P