Dear Diary in Late October 2025

Dear Diary,

I've been reading both AI generated articles and real articles written by contributors here at Vocal.media and of course taking in the various topics jumbles up inside my mind like a math formula summing up for some conclusion. That's what this diary entry is - all those words mixing up together in my mind for an opinion, a summation. "Add it Up" sang The Violent Femmes, a band that I enjoyed listening to in my teens. Well, I do. I always do. I used to pride myself on being an excellent critiquer, until I started noticing that most contributors (whether they are serving you food, a product, a service, or some entertaining or educational reading material) want praise, not critique. And now, with AI generated articles, most of the contributors feel that there is nothing to critique because AI is perfect, right? I don't think so. I've read some of the AI generated articles. The format is shiny, the grammar and spelling mistakes absent, and the presentation is pretty --- like those photos of the perfect hamburger complete with decorative garnish. But when you go order the REAL hamburger, it doesn't look exactly like the photograph. Why not? Oh, that's right, there is a difference between REAL and Photo-Shopped. Like the difference between a real mother who breast feeds her children and a mother who would never let a baby suck on her breasts because that's "disgusting".

The worse part is going to the Education community as a former public school teacher. Remembering that I actually was a student of formal institutionalized education for 17 years (K-12 plus college) and seeing the abundance of AI generated contributions in that section. I'm not upset with this website for that. But I do think it is tragic and insulting to see what is happening to Education. If you think that old-school formal education was bad, I don't think you realize how bad it can become if AI and Robots take over Education. You are going to raise children that actually believe that Formula is better than breast milk. I find that quite tragic.

I watched a movie a few years back called "I am Mother" which came out in 2019 and was directed by Grant Sputore. Hilary Swank was nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the AACTA awards, but besides that the film did not win anything. I think the film was only seen by a rare few and swept under the rug as if the "truth" presented in the film was too dangerous to the greed and convenience offered by the internet and technology of this day. Yet it is possible, that those who have seen the film, along with those who were terrified by "The Matrix" series, were the people leading the "Off Grid" crusaders and warning people of the dangers of algorythms and Robots taking over. The anti-robot considerations were also mentioned in movies like "I Robot" with Will Smith, and other films like "Terminator" and "Robo-Cop" where the audience does begin to question if AI and Robot technology is really the best road to be voting for. Should we be more like Will Smith and Sarah Conners? Or should we be more like the little boy in the film "Aritifical Intelligence" left at the bottom of the ocean with all of the information fed into the computer but never really knowing what a REAL life is? I'm not going to send this Diary entry to a Dear Abbey columnist for adivce. I ask it rhetorically knowing the answer for me is always in the balance of Yin and Yang. REAL and FAKE. did I just type a type ?? 8 lkjalkj Doesn't that look better? Doesn't itseem more real when I make some mistaces?