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Monday, March 9, 2026

César Pose@cesarpose@infosec.exchange · 3d ago

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AI "is" a tool, and don't come at me with that ignorant and fundamentalist fanaticism that's flooding the internet, or rather, social media.

For the professional who knows what they're doing, it's a tool. For the fool, it's entertainment. For the useless or the mediocre, it's a threat because it does things better than they do.

I'm almost 63, and my whole life I've heard the same thing said every time a new technology appeared. It happened with personal computers when there was one in every home, with the internet, with mobile phones, with GPS, with social media. I remember when I got my first cell phone in the 90s, and my father ranted, saying it was going to drive me crazy, and today the old fool spends all day sending memes and talking on WhatsApp with his friends. It's a small example of what will happen with AI.

Does it use a lot of energy? Does it use a lot of water? Is it environmentally unfriendly? PVC and plastic have been debated for decades, and today there's plastic even in fish and Antarctic ice; there's practically nothing that isn't made of plastic or wrapped in plastic.
Fools play with AI and train it, just as millions of fools bought cell phones in the last two decades, making manufacturers millionaires.
I personally don't use it because I don't need it, but if it could improve productivity, I would.
It's like any technology or tool. In the hands of a fool or an irresponsible person, it's a danger, but in the hands of a professional, it's an advantage.
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