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Quote from: Penn on June 22, 2026, 04:12:09 PMLots of random Google images, stolen images and incorrect info that AI scrounged the web for that have nothing to do with Mitchell, PENN, Hardy, Abu, etc.  Some of it is factual thanks to general public info or books published.  Let's not make this guy famous by sharing these inaccurate videos. 

tony

This was my take exactly. I didn't need to see more. There is virtually no work or fact-checking behind these videos. Or at least the two I started to watch. Apologies to Joe, and those that may be enjoying these videos. I found them greatly, terminally, lacking. And a little incensed that so little work, or fact-checking, was applied in their "making".

As to AI... the only issue I have with it is that it literally steals the information we all work hard to obtain and share. Many people now read the AI synopsis and don't go to the sources that actually generate that knowledge. I wonder how traffic is being affected on many good websites, such as Wikipedia?

That said, my family has been using AI searches for medical, legal, and technical research. It's been very useful, even valuable. In one case it has saved our lawyer a ton of time and us a ton of money (we couldn't have afforded otherwise). Our lawyers job is then to apply his fact-checking expertise, tweak the language, and issue the official documents.

Will AI replace, doctors, lawyers, and technicians? Not yet anyway. But, my brother described his experience at work (as a network administrator in a large corp) where a problem arises in the network. AI will identify the problem and then ask, "Do you want me to fix it?" This could lead to a loss of technician jobs. Remains to be seen where that goes.

How responsible are the AI developers? From our AI research for legal language for our property, Google obviously sold our phone numbers to cold callers. We've each been getting 6-8 cold calls a day from "mortgage lenders" for the past two weeks. We aren't looking for a mortgage lender! Can't talk to the callers to tell them they're making a mistake bc they are all AI robot calls that try to sound as though they are real humans.

Also, our internet connection has slowed down noticeably over the past few months. I suspect that AI use over the entire cellular network may be sucking up bandwidth. Apparently, one AI search eats up much more bandwidth (10 to 15 times more per query, according to Google AI). More bandwidth will be needed. We will be paying for the infrastructure costs.

Powerful, valuable, yes. Affordable? Will everyone be able to benefit?

The cold callers use to infuriate me,I have ringtones for my friends & family for the most part.If I dont know the number now my phone has this call assist thingy that pops up I let the
spammer get a taste of their own medicine.I did read though if you answer some bots are just fishing for viable phone numbers to sell...They should all be kicked in the nuts from behind IMO

Including AI ba-ha-ha