The Quiet Girl

   I remember when YouTube was in its first few years. I was 9 when the first video, "Me At the Zoo", was uploaded. YouTube was much better before it was bought out by Google. It seemed to be run by independent artists, musicians, makeup artists and hairstylists alike who otherwise would not get their content seen or heard. The musicians never edited themselves in any way, it was just them being them, with a simple guitar and their voices, playing in their bedrooms and singing naturally, or playing the clarinet in church or in their living rooms. No fancy backdrops, no fixing their hair up, just real music. And everyday people were getting views. YouTube should have stayed this way.  Here are some of the videos I enjoyed watching in the 2000s:  Skillet- Yours to Hold (Cover by Lauren and Ashley) : two girls were on a dorm bed. One girl played     her Taylor guitar very well, and the other girl sang very nicely. Very well done. I cannot find it anywhere anymore, very sad. The

   I previously talked about AI and how detrimental it already is and how detrimental it has the potential to be. Now I am going to talk about Google, which is a whole other subject.  Google used to be a source of fun. When I was a kid I researched different subjects for many school projects on Google. Mom would search "Free Coloring Pages" for myself and my sister, print them out, and watch us color away. And the computer never showed pop-up ads for free coloring pages when my mom checked her email or went to order something on eBay later in the day. Mom would just search, the computer would never know, and all was well.  When I was in eighth grade, my mother began to tell me that she does not like Google because they were beginning to track her information. I could not fully comprehend what that meant, similar to a teenager not being able to grasp paying necessary, adult bills. Now as a grown-up I understand what Google does, and I greatly do not appreciate it.  During my a

And now I will continue my case against Artificial Intelligence. But wait, There's More! And it will continue from where I left off from the last post I wrote about how computers decide whether a person's insurance continues, or whether a review is published, etc. So let's continue on..... To begin, I am the opposite of a Karen, and strive to have manners. (For those who are not familiar with that term, it is a term used to describe grown women who throw fits when they don't get their own way, and who are acting in every way like a spoiled, bratty child.) When my insurance was cancelled, even though my agent was fantastic, I decided to file a complaint about the company (not the agent) on a popular business review website. I don't throw out bad reviews just because a waitress was not precise with filling my drink up or because someone didn't greet me exactly when I enter a store.  Something legitimately bad, dangerous, or downright rude has to happen and be done

                                                                 Photo Credit: Tara Winstead from Pexels  In the last post I discussed the number one reason why I think AI is detrimental to our world, and how I am afraid if people don't see what is going on that it will eventually push art and music, along with intelligent writing, into antiquity. Now I will discuss something else that bothers me about AI, and how people are in favor of it running the show in other ways.  I am tired of calling a company on the phone and getting a robot on the other end. It tries so desperately to sound like a person, but it fails miserably. It says things like, "I can help you with ____. Just speak to me like you would a person." If you don't speak loudly enough, it says, "I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that." Then it repeats the question so robotically and is a pain to deal with. It now takes a long pathway of searching to find the customer service number, and you m