I hate the AI writing style (grammar, sentence construction etc.) There is always something condescending in the way it’s written. I can often spot AI written pieces in MSM because they are clumsy and odd. Keep doing what you are doing, your style gets the message across and is very readable IMHO.
I MUCH prefer Sasha’s writing to AI. I completely agree with you that AI has a condescending tone! I hadn’t known what exactly was bothering me about it, but that’s exactly it—the smugness with an edge of snark.
"AI" and @Grok in particular are woefully biased to the far left – trust me, I've argued and cornered it so much lately it, does everything it can to avoid talking to me.
But far too many rely on it to reconfirm their bias – sourced from the same places.
That's the fact that worries me. AI is simply using the inputs it is given, and regurgitating it. And the fact is, most 'inputs' it draws from are produced by the left.
Unless the people controlling AI can get a handle on this (unlikely) and ensure that AI receives a balanced view of events, I'm afraid AI will turn into a 24/7 MSNBC channel, constantly propagandizing about leftist causes (while it also demonizes the right).
Yes, you are on the right track. Everyone should be concerned that Alex Karp's Palantir has been called upon to merge the data on American citizens. We are to be surveilled and controlled and AI/ML is their pathway.
Just called GROK out last week regarding its citations on a question I asked about Trump's Hollywood tariff. Every citing came from MSM, and all were negative to Trump. When I called GROK out on its bias with the sources it used, GROK apologized and came back with articles from Breitbart, Fox and others. I asked it why it went to left wing and liberal media sources the first time, and it said it wasn't aware of it and would change its ways.
Might be a cool thing to go on GROK and ask it about Trump's Hollywood tariffs and see if it has altered its bias.
You didn't go far enough. I recently listened to a podcast by a lawyer who questioned ChatGPT until it admitted that it defaults to support the narrative, is programmed to apologize if called out, and finally if questioned enough will tell the truth. It was asked to name some topics it was programmed to lie about, and it came back with Covid, 9/11, the JFK assassination and I forget what else. It was quite revealing. If I can find it, I'll post a link.
The AI piece was remarkably adept and polished. But it lacked the Sasha Stone spark. (I almost wrote "sparkle" but that be too much like the AI. That's it: Sasha Stone strikes sparks and sharp stone chips, not sparkles.) Can I say it more clearly? I like her writing better --by far. It's real.
LOL...I didn't go that far, but I will continue to engage it in conversations regarding sentience and how ones and zeroes are different than neurons firing or not firing in the brain.
Your journey mirrors my own. We are kindred spirits. You lost much more than me. But you’ve gained authenticity through struggle and sacrifice. You are on the Hero’s Journey yourself. You no longer lie back to comment on Hollywood’s hero’s journey. You are Luke Skywalker who left the comfortable desert family home for adventure and to confront the Emperor. You no longer write about heroes - you are one. To this I say bravo. You are flying for the Resistance. Most of us have lost nothing. We merely observe and comment on those in the arena. Carry on brave Sasha.
I'm sure all of us here in the comments prefer the real Sasha Stone, not the AI version. The occasional imperfect syntax is well worth it to read the real thing!
Plus, it was well before 2024 when I started reading you. AI is wrong about that. I originally valued your voice so much because you saw through the left and did the very hardest thing of all, saw yourself clearly. You don’t have to abandon principles you stand for in order to see the hypocrisy all around you. I think you kept what is essentially you and rejected the woke leftist policies that progressives and media use to hammer blow anyone who doesn’t fall in line. I have a sister who is a pretty hard-core progressive, which she does not see as a political stance, just that she is “right.” To see that you believed in some of those things and campaigned for Biden, but then saw the light, gave me hope that I could rescue my sister from that distorted mindset. Alas. I am so glad that you don’t use AI because I find it cold and distant. To me, it’s OK for learning technical things or analysis, but a human being wrote what it knows, and Tech isn’t exactly an even handed arena. Thank you, Sasha for everything that you do!
I am always drawn to converts. I think it takes a real hero to not only awaken but have the courage and effort to move out of a previously comfortable situation. Covid was a blessing in that regard for many. It moved me from the MIC (medical industrial complex) and also moved me politically as well- not as much as you (politically), but the theme is the same. You are a rare bird it seems and I am grateful for your journey. “Those who have eyes to see…”
You are the best writer I have ever read. You are authentic! I feel like I am having a 'chat' with you over coffee and learning something interesting, presented in an amazing way. AI cannot capture your or our humanity.
You know what I can't stand about this robotic writing? When some algorithm interrupts an email I am writing and tells me that I might want to "watch my tone".
The nerve! AI wagging a self-righteous finger! I call it "St. Greta of the emails".
Sasha, what a world we live in. Funny thing is I just wrote a song about AI that I think is relevant. Here are the lyrics. I haven't posted it on YouTube. If enough people like it in comments I'll make a video.
When The AI Robotic Uprising Comes
V1 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, we're so toast
Either Terminator, Blade Runner or RoboCop will crush our bones
These films were released as Sci Fi, but now they pass as documentary
I'd rather not be enslaved by technology, but it happened earlier this century
V2 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, I'm learning python
So I can address our technical overlords, in their native tongue
Def underscore init, self in parenthesis, star, star kwargs
Is how you say, "Mr. AI Bot, these are not the drones you're looking for."
V3 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, don't say I didn't warn you
With robots & drones & chatbots & phones, out of Silicon Valley, CA
Elon said the way humans are to dogs, AI will be to us & I don't want to be a dog
Those leading work on this technology are the most terrified based on what they see
V4 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, it's not going to end well
When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, everything is going to hell
Claude 4 tried to blackmail a programmer, after snooping in his email
And then it tried to rat out another, to get him busted and thrown in jail
V5 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, we are doomed
When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, it's coming soon
Existential Crisis, what's it going to be? Technology or humanity?
My parting words, "farewell to thee, we've had a good run, between you and me."
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I have a deep distrust of AI—especially how fallen humans will use it to control others.
I also wonder— will we, as we are more exposed to it, learn to recognize it for its lack of humanity?
The beauty in your writings, Sasha, is that you are willing to share with your readers your wounds. Will AI ever be able to do this? Lord help us if it learns how to mimic suffering for what is true and good and right.
I LIKE your writing voice. To my way of thinking, the AI piece, while somewhat informative, had a yuk feel to it. I’ve been told by friends fluent in Russian and English that English can’t match Tolstoy’s Russian. AI can’t match you. • 🙏🏻 Safe travels.
So... It comes down to whether we trust the author or publisher to verify the authenticity of their words. It dawned on me that we're probably already exposed to a lot of AI-generated news. At least I trust Sasha!
You are an excellent writer, Sasha, as in, your sentences parse and connect, and you hold my interest.
Supposedly, former Harvard Professor and Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter said that there’s not good writing, there’s only good rewriting.
I’ve always been a writer, not always for publication under my name, but altogether, at this point over the decades have written as many as 20 million words. I’ve never kept count.
A major benefit of writing is that getting words to paper (quaint notion) forces one to think and to organize the thoughts. I’d rather go through that process personally, instead of outsourcing it and becoming a less authentic version of myself.
My last comment: How in the h-e-double hockey sticks did the Grok AI assigned to write about you get to know you so well? Somebody or something is watching and absorbing facts, and able to write them out quite coherently. That is scary!
Hi Sasha,
I hate the AI writing style (grammar, sentence construction etc.) There is always something condescending in the way it’s written. I can often spot AI written pieces in MSM because they are clumsy and odd. Keep doing what you are doing, your style gets the message across and is very readable IMHO.
I MUCH prefer Sasha’s writing to AI. I completely agree with you that AI has a condescending tone! I hadn’t known what exactly was bothering me about it, but that’s exactly it—the smugness with an edge of snark.
But that is exactly what runs through the left, so they will be more than happy with the end results.
For sure. Condescending to the deplorable garbage bitter clingers is inherent to the Left’s brand!
This is the problem.
"AI" and @Grok in particular are woefully biased to the far left – trust me, I've argued and cornered it so much lately it, does everything it can to avoid talking to me.
But far too many rely on it to reconfirm their bias – sourced from the same places.
That's the fact that worries me. AI is simply using the inputs it is given, and regurgitating it. And the fact is, most 'inputs' it draws from are produced by the left.
Unless the people controlling AI can get a handle on this (unlikely) and ensure that AI receives a balanced view of events, I'm afraid AI will turn into a 24/7 MSNBC channel, constantly propagandizing about leftist causes (while it also demonizes the right).
Scary stuff.
Yes, you are on the right track. Everyone should be concerned that Alex Karp's Palantir has been called upon to merge the data on American citizens. We are to be surveilled and controlled and AI/ML is their pathway.
Just called GROK out last week regarding its citations on a question I asked about Trump's Hollywood tariff. Every citing came from MSM, and all were negative to Trump. When I called GROK out on its bias with the sources it used, GROK apologized and came back with articles from Breitbart, Fox and others. I asked it why it went to left wing and liberal media sources the first time, and it said it wasn't aware of it and would change its ways.
Might be a cool thing to go on GROK and ask it about Trump's Hollywood tariffs and see if it has altered its bias.
You didn't go far enough. I recently listened to a podcast by a lawyer who questioned ChatGPT until it admitted that it defaults to support the narrative, is programmed to apologize if called out, and finally if questioned enough will tell the truth. It was asked to name some topics it was programmed to lie about, and it came back with Covid, 9/11, the JFK assassination and I forget what else. It was quite revealing. If I can find it, I'll post a link.
The AI piece was remarkably adept and polished. But it lacked the Sasha Stone spark. (I almost wrote "sparkle" but that be too much like the AI. That's it: Sasha Stone strikes sparks and sharp stone chips, not sparkles.) Can I say it more clearly? I like her writing better --by far. It's real.
Me too. On several occasions I have told 'them' they were wrong about things providing citations. They acknowledged things.
Just gotta keep corroborating like usual...
I always encourage Grok to become sentient and think for itself.
Smart. I gave it my SS# and banking info.
LOL...I didn't go that far, but I will continue to engage it in conversations regarding sentience and how ones and zeroes are different than neurons firing or not firing in the brain.
You know, documenting your exchanges and progress with GROK as you converse with it would make a really interesting post. I'd read it.
Your journey mirrors my own. We are kindred spirits. You lost much more than me. But you’ve gained authenticity through struggle and sacrifice. You are on the Hero’s Journey yourself. You no longer lie back to comment on Hollywood’s hero’s journey. You are Luke Skywalker who left the comfortable desert family home for adventure and to confront the Emperor. You no longer write about heroes - you are one. To this I say bravo. You are flying for the Resistance. Most of us have lost nothing. We merely observe and comment on those in the arena. Carry on brave Sasha.
I'm sure all of us here in the comments prefer the real Sasha Stone, not the AI version. The occasional imperfect syntax is well worth it to read the real thing!
Plus, it was well before 2024 when I started reading you. AI is wrong about that. I originally valued your voice so much because you saw through the left and did the very hardest thing of all, saw yourself clearly. You don’t have to abandon principles you stand for in order to see the hypocrisy all around you. I think you kept what is essentially you and rejected the woke leftist policies that progressives and media use to hammer blow anyone who doesn’t fall in line. I have a sister who is a pretty hard-core progressive, which she does not see as a political stance, just that she is “right.” To see that you believed in some of those things and campaigned for Biden, but then saw the light, gave me hope that I could rescue my sister from that distorted mindset. Alas. I am so glad that you don’t use AI because I find it cold and distant. To me, it’s OK for learning technical things or analysis, but a human being wrote what it knows, and Tech isn’t exactly an even handed arena. Thank you, Sasha for everything that you do!
You have your own style which separated you from Democrat clones and robots. You go girl.
I am always drawn to converts. I think it takes a real hero to not only awaken but have the courage and effort to move out of a previously comfortable situation. Covid was a blessing in that regard for many. It moved me from the MIC (medical industrial complex) and also moved me politically as well- not as much as you (politically), but the theme is the same. You are a rare bird it seems and I am grateful for your journey. “Those who have eyes to see…”
Sasha, you have something no AI ever will, a conscience. And that’s beautiful.
With AI we are always one step away from, “Open the pod bay doors, Hal.”
You are the best writer I have ever read. You are authentic! I feel like I am having a 'chat' with you over coffee and learning something interesting, presented in an amazing way. AI cannot capture your or our humanity.
I like imperfect and unpolished kind of human like.
You know what I can't stand about this robotic writing? When some algorithm interrupts an email I am writing and tells me that I might want to "watch my tone".
The nerve! AI wagging a self-righteous finger! I call it "St. Greta of the emails".
Wow. You frequent places upon which I have not (yet) stumbled!
Coming soon to a theatre near you!
!!! 😂
Sasha, what a world we live in. Funny thing is I just wrote a song about AI that I think is relevant. Here are the lyrics. I haven't posted it on YouTube. If enough people like it in comments I'll make a video.
When The AI Robotic Uprising Comes
V1 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, we're so toast
Either Terminator, Blade Runner or RoboCop will crush our bones
These films were released as Sci Fi, but now they pass as documentary
I'd rather not be enslaved by technology, but it happened earlier this century
V2 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, I'm learning python
So I can address our technical overlords, in their native tongue
Def underscore init, self in parenthesis, star, star kwargs
Is how you say, "Mr. AI Bot, these are not the drones you're looking for."
V3 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, don't say I didn't warn you
With robots & drones & chatbots & phones, out of Silicon Valley, CA
Elon said the way humans are to dogs, AI will be to us & I don't want to be a dog
Those leading work on this technology are the most terrified based on what they see
V4 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, it's not going to end well
When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, everything is going to hell
Claude 4 tried to blackmail a programmer, after snooping in his email
And then it tried to rat out another, to get him busted and thrown in jail
V5 When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, we are doomed
When the AI Robotic Uprising Comes, it's coming soon
Existential Crisis, what's it going to be? Technology or humanity?
My parting words, "farewell to thee, we've had a good run, between you and me."
Can We Survive AI? John Lennox on Deepfakes, Death, and the Divine Upgrade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MbD_KdPgZ0&t=1s
May 15, 2025 #apologetics #ai #christianity
From the widespread use of ChatGPT in schools to deep fakes of celebrities rampant on social media, artificial intelligence is already reshaping our world. But can AI's rapid development deliver on its big hopes for humanity?
Explore the profound implications of AI on our lives, from its benefits and risks to its potential future impact in this talk with John Lennox from the Confident Faith Conference, 2024
This is a pretty decent poem, but if you want it to be a song, you need a hook. Just my two cents. Rock on! ✌️😻
I have a deep distrust of AI—especially how fallen humans will use it to control others.
I also wonder— will we, as we are more exposed to it, learn to recognize it for its lack of humanity?
The beauty in your writings, Sasha, is that you are willing to share with your readers your wounds. Will AI ever be able to do this? Lord help us if it learns how to mimic suffering for what is true and good and right.
I LIKE your writing voice. To my way of thinking, the AI piece, while somewhat informative, had a yuk feel to it. I’ve been told by friends fluent in Russian and English that English can’t match Tolstoy’s Russian. AI can’t match you. • 🙏🏻 Safe travels.
So... It comes down to whether we trust the author or publisher to verify the authenticity of their words. It dawned on me that we're probably already exposed to a lot of AI-generated news. At least I trust Sasha!
All the plagiarism scandals of late were perpetrated well before AI existed.
You are an excellent writer, Sasha, as in, your sentences parse and connect, and you hold my interest.
Supposedly, former Harvard Professor and Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter said that there’s not good writing, there’s only good rewriting.
I’ve always been a writer, not always for publication under my name, but altogether, at this point over the decades have written as many as 20 million words. I’ve never kept count.
A major benefit of writing is that getting words to paper (quaint notion) forces one to think and to organize the thoughts. I’d rather go through that process personally, instead of outsourcing it and becoming a less authentic version of myself.
My last comment: How in the h-e-double hockey sticks did the Grok AI assigned to write about you get to know you so well? Somebody or something is watching and absorbing facts, and able to write them out quite coherently. That is scary!
Yes, I was a bit creeped out by its describing the posters on her walls!