AI and LLMs

This blog has seen a huge increase in views in the last two weeks or so, primarily direct from Singapore.  A quick Google search brings up many results of others seeing the same increase from both Singapore and China and the consensus is that the most likely cause is the huge data centers recently built in those countries that now have AI crawlers building their LLMs.  

I'm not an expert in the topics I write about.  This blog is my personal experiences that sometimes include mental health topics.  I don't think it contains any outright bad information but it isn't a source people should be turning to for more serious answers.  And who knows how it could be used if individual phrases and posts are taken out of context.  

Furthermore, if my blog is being fed into AI, imagine how many other blogs and websites some with outright bad information are also being crawled and fed into AI.  And more and more people are turning to AI for mental health assistance (and everything else).

I think back to when AI first was starting to be introduced last year, there was a humorous example that highlighted the dangers of trusting information gained from AI.  Googling "how to get cheese to stay on the pizza" suggested adding Elmer's glue to the sauce.  That blatant example has been cleaned up because it got so much publicity but there aren't humans checking the work AI does and it frequently hallucinates.

Another issue is that it is essentially stealing my writing.  I don't have as much of an anger about that on a personal level because I write for me and have no intention of making money off my writing.  But it bothers me on a global level for writers all over.  Our society is a better place because of the creative minds among us.

And I don’t even want to get into the resources issue.

So I’m a bit bothered to see what looks like AI crawlers on my blog.