#while google is scraping your docs to feed their ai

[sendpseuds]

if you write fic and haven’t ditched google docs for ellipsus yet, you really should

[heartfulselkie]

Hi I really like your writing and just wanted to warn you that Google Docs is feeding stuff to AI so if you use Google Docs please consider an alternate!

Hi anon!

While google is apparently using AI scraping on its webpages (so Ao3 for example), its unconfirmed if its actually doing it with google docs since that's private data.

I reblogged a post recently that points this out.

Google docs should technically be okay, but then again its comes down to how much do you trust google?

I severly hope its not the case as I often use google docs to store fics or share them with my betas.

[whosmaggy]

hi maggy,

are you a silver or gold girl? Also, what’s your opinion on a specific ai-platform that’s frequented by yourself and the people around you given what’s recently happened? Would love to hear your thoughts!

Sincerely,

bro😛💦💥🍦

hi bro. i am a silver girl because i have worm undertones and silver looks better. there are no ai platforms i frequent (unless i have a coding assignment) but i assume you are refering to the platform where i am able to talk to a repersentation of my husband.

personally, my thoughts on ai haven't changed. i still think there is a vulture like quality to all ais that deal in information/addiction as currency (in the sense that everything you say is also being feed into their models to make them seem more human and when people stop having the patience to think for themselves most large scale ais will become payed). however, what happened (not recently, because i am getting to this a bit later then i should've) has nothing/very little to do with the referenced ai. it has to do with parents forgetting they are parents, media skewing how relationships should be/are, and technology being the main caretaker of a lot of kids. technology is a great resource but there are multi-billion dollar corporations trying to keep people on any form of it for longer periods of time than they should be. kids have an insane amount of screen time and its guinuenly messing with their development. not in the mood to cite research articles, but there is so much data about the negative affects of an over-use of technology, and when dealing with kids, pretty much any use is an over-use. while what happened is sad, i believe the responsibility will always lie on parents. if they allow their kids access to technology, it should be monitored. i am not trying to be self rightoeus in any way, i viewed and interacted with content that wasnt made for children when i was a child. however, my use of technology was monitored enough (in the mom looking over your shoulder to see what youre watching way) that i wasnt interacting with developmentally innaproriate stuff consistently/for long periods of time. i also spent most of my time not with technology. i played outside with my friends, i played/fought with my brothers, i cooked with my mom. i was able and encouraged to experience and maintain my relationships, which is something a lot of kids are no longer doing.

i will hate on technology any chance i get, however i care more about child care than i do technology so that is what i believe has a bigger affect. i have worked with kids for a while now, and i have worked with kids from the ages of 4-12 which are some of the most defining years. the emotional regulation, friendships, and critical thinking skills that kids who arent chronically online (for lack of better words) compared to those who are is shocking. people kill theselves all the time because of an addiction. thats exactly what this was, a young boy with an addiction that shouldnt have ever existed. you can blame technology or ai for as long as you want and put laws in place and yell from the rooftops, but that will never stop people from pirating and opensourcing and making google docs with links. barriers in tech does not change the life someone has to live outside of the tech they use. kids needs friends, they need time outside, they need human interaction and it is their parents job to provide that.

im not trying to blame the parents, kids will find ways to do the things they want, but this situation wasnt caused by one rash action. it was caused by a long period of emotional dysregulation.

keep ur kids as far away from tech as you can, the ipad is not their primary care taker. let them play outside and ride bikes and fall and scrape their knees. read books to them, take them to the library, play boardgames, cook with them, set up play-dates, colour with them. let them go out with their friends, redocerate their rooms, get after school jobs, do wood work in the garage. there is more to life than the media we are fed, dont hand it to your kids and expect them not to digest it.

From,

Maggy 🌲