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I’ve been fucking around with AI for a couple of years now. I’ve used it to overhaul this website, as well as various professional websites, and a host of other wacky, idiosyncratic projects.
Over the years since ChatGPT was released, and the months since I discovered Claude Code, this might be my favorite project yet.
I struggled mightily to get a chatbot operational that was both stylistically and substantively coherent, and I think I’m getting close.
Feel free to give this a spin, and see what you think. Ask it questions about me. About what I’ve written on here. About my emotions. About my insights. About my relationships. About the sex I’ve had.
A couple of disclosures:
One, although I don’t currently have the capacity to see the questions you ask, or the answers you receive. I’m working to develop that capability. I think I’ve solved this, and the history of all questions will be available to me shortly (and, perhaps, to you).
Two. This was built using tools built by the increasingly reprehensible OpenAI. And the not-yet-visibly-reprehensible-but-surely-soon-to-be-so-anthropic. I don’t think that information you enter here is shared with them or used for the purposes of training their models. But I’m not familiar enough with their terms of service to guarantee that.
Finally, I know many people believe that AI queries are environmentally destructive, in terms of some combination of energy and water use. I have the sense that I’m better informed than many on this subject, having done a fair amount of research to try to understand it better, and, suffice it to say, I don’t feel like I have any clue as to whether that’s true or not.
On the water front, it’s certainly true that AI use involves the consumption of water. That’s true of just about every major industrial process. And while it’s true that AI usage has grown exponentially in recent years, and therefore, so has the water usage associated with it, it’s not at all clear (to me) that this usage is materially significant.
With respect to energy, I’m even more confused, and here’s why: AI unquestionably uses enormous quantities of energy. And/but. The new energy generation capacity being brought online by the major AI companies is disproportionately renewable. And so, while it’s true that there’s significant energy consumption associated with AI use, it’s also true that there’s substantial renewable energy capacity being created in connection with it. What the net impact is? I sure as hell don’t know.
Which is all to say, use at your own risk.
I have set pretty low throttles on how many searches you can do, because I have to actually pay for this, and while I’ve always done this blog as a labor of love, and have never made a penny from it, there’s a pretty low limit on the amount I’m prepared to spend to support your curiosity about me, beyond the time I invest, and the relatively minimal cost associated with web hosting.