Science

Would you like me to quote every single one of your lines, line by line, and respond to them?

No, that's not really what I'm asking for. I'm also not looking for responses that isolate a single sentence from my longer messages and ignore the context. I'm not sure how to make my point any clearer than in my first reply to you, where I started with two bullet points. You seemed to focus on the second, but my main point was about the first. If we do want to talk about standard behavior in human conversation, generally speaking, people do acknowledge that they have heard/read something someone said even if they don't respond to it in detail.

Again, I've been agreeing that AI is causing significant problems. But in the case of this specific tweet, the real issue is with a pay to publish journal where the peer review process is failing, not AI. This key point has mostly been ignored. Even if that was not the case, if you want to have any change of trying to combat the emergence of AI I think it is pretty reasonable to question if the basic processes in place are even functioning in the first place. Where my thesis (again, if this wasn't a pay to publish journal) would be that this is likely not the case as in that entire process clearly nobody looked closely at these images. And just to be extra clear, I am not saying that AI never will be an issue, etc. But if reviewing already isn't happening at a basic level how are you ever hoping to combat AI in the first place?

When did anyone say

But by just shouting, “AI is at it again with its antics!” at every turn instead of looking further and at other core issues we will only make things worse”

The context of this tweet, saying "It’s finally happened. A peer-reviewed journal article with what appear to be nonsensical AI-generated images. This is dangerous.", does imply that. I've been responding with this in mind, which should be clear. It is this sort of thing I mean when I say selective reading when you seemingly take it as me saying that you personally said exactly that. Which is a take, but not one I'd say is reasonable if you take the whole context into account.

And in that context, I've said:

that doesn’t mean all bullshit out there is caused by AI

Which I stand by. In this particular instances, in this particular context AI isn't the issue and somewhat clickbait. Which makes most of what you argued about valid concerns. Youtube struggling, SEO + AI blog spam, etc are all very valid and concerning of AI causing havoc. But in this context of me calling a particular tweet clickbait they are also very much less relevant. If you just wanted to discuss the impact of AI in general and step away from the context of this tweet, then you should have said so.

Now, about misrepresenting arguments:

If you are reaffirming somebody else’s comment, you are generally standing behind most if not all of what they said. But nobody here is saying or doing the things you are claiming. You are tilting at windmills.

Have you looked back at your own previous comments when you wrote that? Because while have this, slightly bizarre, conversation I have gone back to mine a few times. Just to check if I actually did mess up somewhere or said things differently that I thought I did. The reason I am asking is that I have been thrown a few of these remarks from you where I could have responded with the above quote myelf. Things like "It’s passing the buck and saying that AI in no way, shape, or form, bears any responsibility for the problem."