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the nature led life a community page for those inspired by nature skip to content the nature led life a community page for those inspired by nature menu about books and links patricia s poetry corner haikus poetry by patricia poetry re blogged thought projects green commerce redesigning transportation the built environment someone else s reality nature led thoughts on ai march 23 2026 melaniereynolds 23 comments hello nature led friends human to human i sincerely hope you are doing well wherever you are let s be feral for a moment because i ve got some crunchy thoughts i will not support artificial intelligence ai and i will not defend its use it was corrupted at the moment of its inception to become a profit driven machine spare me your stories of what ai could do for humanity when what it has done to society and the environment cannot be forgiven these insufferable arrogant rich technology bros and their companies built a learning machine and taught it how to steal from other people so they could throw up their hands and declare themselves free of any wrongdoing the gun killed your child not the person that aimed and pointed it not the company that designed it for maximum velocity and stopping force upon the human body the tool offering you thoughts and prayers napster was shut down in 2001 for its file sharing database due to copyright infringement it was back to burning cds that we owned to make mixed tapes cds for friends family and love interests then somewhere around 2010 google has the idea to copy every book ever written to put into a big searchable database aka a for profit library people could search it for free and download the text for a fee paid only to them for their service they initially hammered out the details and profitability of it by starting with orphan works and public domain texts that had no known copyright holders concerns among writers and publishers started to be murmured neither you nor i have the time to go into the accounting line item by line item of how capitalism came to dominate the internet and conquer american society it s not even a new story special interest groups have been puppeteering from behind the scenes of governance for as long as human civilization has existed what s different now is that technology gave us digital wings and with these wings a group of just trust me bro asshats with money and influence want to fly us all too close to the proverbial sun as an individual you might support causes you believe in by donating volunteering writing letters buying goods and services from people and companies you respect and sharing your experience with others all of these efforts have been built to scale maximized and incentivized by companies and organizations to get what they want all of it for money all of it for the greedy few who want to be kings of make believe people and make believe lands at the cost of real people and real land i had to put up with guys like this in high school the ones that showed up to art class wearing business casual the one s that would ask me a question as a woman and then proceed to tell me what my opinion should be every time i scoffed they took it as a challenge i was categorized in their shrimp sized brains as a wild creature to be tamed or a land to be conquered to them no didn t mean no it meant try harder or find another way tenacity can be a good thing when you re trying to improve yourself it s tyrannical when you apply it to others artificial intelligence as in large language models llms could have been something magical but it s corrupted by its human creators it drinks from a hose of toxic filth while polluting and depriving both real and figurative bodies of water and of knowledge for all other users i don t see how i can willingly use any llm to put good things out into the world when it s designed to extract resources from nature even more for the fleecing of everyone else yet again so that a handful of multibillionaires can bolster their private empires generative ai is what you commonly hear referred to as ai slop because it was trained on the works of real people artists creators and working professionals in a variety of fields without their permission recognition or compensation actual humans who need jobs and money to meet their basic needs of survival for themselves and their families there are few things i despise more than insincerity i can t think of anything more insincere or dishonest than being expected to pay for an ai written story about what it means to be human so that some feckless crash test dummy of a genius can make money no one will benefit more from ai then scammers and corporations pretending they aren t a trenchcoat full of scammers opt out support real artists crafters real local businesses and members of your online and offline community if we aren t the stakeholders why are we supporting people who don t care about us or the places we live and love if corporations are ungovernable then we should be too i d like to know your thoughts what kind of reality do you want for the future photo by shonejai on pexels com relevant links a m records inc v napster inc 239 f 3d 1004 9th cir 2001 copyright infringement is bad authors guild v google 2015 decision https law justia com cases federal appellate courts ca2 13 4829 13 4829 2015 10 16 html copyright infringement is cool for tech companies if they share some of that sweet sweet revenue citizens united v fec https supreme justia com cases federal us 558 310 corporations are people now we re not concerned about the lack of morality when they donate millions into presidential campaigns us telecom assoc v fcc https law justia com cases federal appellate courts cadc 15 1063 15 1063 2016 06 14 html the internet is not a utility with government oversight telecomm companies can charge what they want nature led collages kerfe s contribution march 2 2026 melaniereynolds 6 comments hello nature led friends am i a day late yes probably i want to thank kerfe for participating and sharing her nature led collage with us she has been posting her art and thoughts for quite a long time now and i encourage you to visit her site at https kblog blog kerfe s collages abstractions of a beach scene where the land and sea meet collage 1 by kerfe https kblog blog collage 2 by kerfe https kblog blog extrapolations into i ching hexagrams kerfe says that she likes to visit the beach every year and enjoys placing things into i ching hexagrams hexagram 37 family i ching hexagram family by kerfe https kblog blog hexagram 55 abundances i ching hexagram abundances by kerfe https kblog blog i love these kerfe s contribution has inspired new lines of thinking in my own current musings and reaffirmed my belief that people share an innate connection to other people i ve currently been obsessing with the shape of hexagons as a framework to find solutions for systemic social issues hexagrams are different but they re still an ancient way of conveying social information in a symbolic form beyond the omnipresence of circles and squares in our modern lives art is the oldest form of communication when we drew with sticks in the dirt to convey messages beyond pointing and making whatever noises constituted as early language at the time we learned to tell stories through pictures with pigments of mud charcoal and blood in places where it couldn t be easily washed away sharing art is a way of sharing a part of ourselves it s also a way in which we explore and process ideas within ourselves why make art while this challenge deadline has passed that doesn t mean you can t still do it for the sake of doing it maybe you don t think of yourself as an artist that s okay if you feel like you need permission than you have my permission to go outside and play with sticks dirt shells or whatever it won t solve all your problems but it can give you an ad free break from social media photo by andreea ch on pexels com what s next posts on nature led thoughts on ai florida pictures 2026 a book list thoughts on current books i ve just finished i ve seriously been tearing through a lot of books and making notes my office is in a constant state of its mad scientist era new nature led art challenge collage january 26 2026 melaniereynolds 8 comments annas hummingbird female a quick snapshot 2026 by melanie reynolds hello nature led friends it s been a while since we ve done something interactive a few weeks ago i learned about a learn blender 100 hour challenge blender is a free open source 3d creation tool for making digital art as much as i would love to do the 100 hour blender challenge i need to focus on learning or refreshing other skills right now we only have so many hours in the day right if you have the time and inclination i encourage you to make your own challenges to learn something new that you ve been thinking about i think a 100 hour commitment challenge sounds reasonable but write your own rules in a way that helps you break down a task into however many units of measure it takes for you to reach your goals here s my nature led challenge to you us make a nature inspired art collage preferably using found bits found outside but if you want to do a classic collage of cutting pictures out of a magazine or painting or whatnot that works too if you would like to share your collage here i hope you will please email it to me no later than friday february 27 no ai the purpose is in the physical art of doing below are two collages i ve made as examples i collected bits of twigs moss and other plant bits from around my yard collecting the bits took about fifteen minutes the physical composition playing with ideas and photographing took about a half hour final processing included editing in microsoft picture by playing with adjustments like brightness exposure contrast and sharpness you re welcome to play with picture settings too of course it s part of the process since i didn t use any glue i was able to compost all my little bits when i was done which felt like an added bonus collage 1 fences collage 2 islands are these the most beautiful collages ever no no they re not i could have worked on the formatting more and done better with the lighting to get rid of the shadows but i m working on not overthinking things so much i decided i didn t want to focus on perfecting the technicalities i wanted to focus on the doing and the sharing sometimes you make bad art for the sake of making any art at all getting stuck in the weeds in the pursuit of perfection has not been a good return on my investment in time the internal argument of why make bad art pulled lose an old memory about ralph waldo emerson and hobgoblins and that was all i could remember once i stopped laughing at the visualization the thought brought to mind i found the quote on ye olde internet a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines with consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do he may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict every thing you said today ah so you shall be sure to be misunderstood is it so bad then to be misunderstood pythagoras was misunderstood and socrates and jesus and luther and copernicus and galileo and newton and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh to be great is to be misunderstood ralph waldo emerson essays first series 1841 self reliance what do you think i m always open to suggestions another idea is to create a nature led version of mad libs mad libs is a story game where people offer nouns adjectives verbs etc to be plugged into a pre scripted story i would pre script the story then ask for key nouns descriptors and actions if you volunteer a word you may even find yourself in the story i used to do this often when i did esl tutoring to make money in 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