Still running!
AI disabled!
Inner Voice That Always Gets Me Into Trouble: Just update your website now, in the middle of the day. Let's see what happens.
Me Who Ought To Know Better: Sure, that seems like a solid plan.
... I'll let y'all know.
So I'm still not thrilled about AI being a feature but I do have to give them props for putting thought, time, and energy into making sure that the ability to turn it off actually turns it off.
(The patch was accepted and incorporated into WP7 during the Release Candidate process, as best I can tell.)
Not only did they add an entry in the config file to allow you to disable AI integration, but they anticipated that some... "over enthusiastic" plugin makers might try to find ways around that and enable AI integration anyway, whether you want it or not. I found a whole discussion on a patch added to make sure that when the site admin turns it off, it stays off, and plugins can't do an end run around that setting.
Since I complained about it earlier I feel it's important to give respect when due: WordPress 7.0 released and my host will be updating my site to it eventually. I was super concerned because WordPress 7 is supporting AI integration, and there are a lot of negative connotations that come with that.
Well, as it turns out, the developers were looking ahead and anticipating that, because they made it possible to turn that integration off.
But there's more...
Does anyone remember specification-based programming? Back in my OS/2 days I met a few people who were big proponents of it. Vibe coding reminds me of a copy of a copy of that, sort of like "specification based programming, only you're drunk and the computer's drunk and you lost your glasses so everything's blurry"
Which brings it back to AI becoming the new Microsoft. Those of you who have been around know what I'm talking about. (Remember Ed Curry)
Now I am not actually opposed to learning how it works. In the abstract I think the technology is interesting - not nearly as interesting as the billionaire sociopaths want me to think it is, but still very interesting. I _am_ opposed to seeing it succeed, at least in its current form, because its current form required wholesale theft to get where it is.
Looks like, at least for a while, AI is becoming the new Microsoft. It doesn't matter how unethically it was created or how opportunistically it's misrepresented by its supporters, employers are expecting you to train on it and know how it works.
So... when WordPress 7.0 gets released it's apparently going to have AI integrated into everything. I have no idea what I'm going to do with Eviscerati.Org - hopefully WP7 has some way to disable the AI, but the way things are going these days it doesn't seem like it. Anyone know if I have any simple migration options? I'm very tired of migrating my site, but I guess I need to at least think about it.
