{"id":8,"date":"2025-02-25T00:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T00:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2025-03-02T14:41:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T14:41:03","slug":"in-the-fashion-of-an-86-year-old-demented-grandfather-local-software-engineer-insists-ai-doesnt-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/in-the-fashion-of-an-86-year-old-demented-grandfather-local-software-engineer-insists-ai-doesnt-exist\/","title":{"rendered":"Like a Senile 86-Year-Old Grandpa, Local Software Engineer Insists AI Isn\u2019t Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BOISE, ID\u2014<\/strong> While advancements in artificial intelligence have revolutionized industries worldwide, local software engineer Mark Fielding, 34, has taken a bold stance against the technology\u2019s existence, mirroring the logic and temperament of a confused 86-year-old grandfather ranting at the dinner table.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOh sure, they <em>say<\/em> it\u2019s artificial intelligence,\u201d Fielding declared loudly in the middle of a stand-up meeting, shaking his fist at a Jira ticket like it owed him money. \u201cBut back in <em>my<\/em> day, we didn\u2019t need \u2018machine learning\u2019 to tell us how to sort a goddamn Excel spreadsheet! We used our <em>heads<\/em>\u2014and if you couldn\u2019t figure it out, you didn\u2019t <em>deserve<\/em> to have a job!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coworkers say Fielding\u2019s dismissals have grown increasingly erratic over the past few months, with his latest tirade comparing ChatGPT to \u201cone of those answering machines that pretends to be a person, but you just keep shouting \u2018REPRESENTATIVE\u2019 until it gives up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI asked it to generate some Python code,\u201d Fielding grumbled, his voice quivering with indignation. \u201cAnd it <em>did<\/em>! But did it <em>understand<\/em> what it was doing? No! It\u2019s just a <em>parrot<\/em>\u2014a fancy, soulless parrot that spits out Stack Overflow answers like a goddamn carnie!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses reported that at one point, Fielding went full grandpa mode, accusing AI of being a government scam designed to steal jobs and \u201cturn perfectly good programmers into soft-brained morons who can\u2019t even write a goddamn \u2018for\u2019 loop without asking Jeeves.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tech consultant Greg Simmons, who witnessed the incident, described the spectacle as \u201cequal parts unsettling and nostalgic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was like watching my granddad yell at the TV because the weatherman didn\u2019t predict the rain right,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cHe just kept waving his hands and muttering things like, \u2018Next thing you know, they\u2019ll be calling <em>calculators<\/em> intelligent! It\u2019s all nonsense!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite mounting evidence to the contrary\u2014including every major tech company pouring billions into AI\u2014Fielding remains steadfast in his belief that machine learning is a sham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat\u2019s next? Are we gonna start saying vending machines have free will? That autocorrect is a sentient being? Give me a break,\u201d Fielding scoffed, aggressively slapping his laptop as though it had personally wronged him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At press time, Fielding was last seen berating his smartphone after it recommended an AI-generated playlist, demanding to know \u201cwho programmed this goddamn thing to read my mind.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, ID\u2014 While advancements in artificial intelligence have revolutionized industries worldwide, local software engineer Mark Fielding, 34, has taken a bold stance against the technology\u2019s existence, mirroring the logic and temperament of a confused 86-year-old grandfather ranting at the dinner table. \u201cOh sure, they say it\u2019s artificial intelligence,\u201d Fielding declared loudly in the middle of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[74,66,62,72,70,63,69,64,61,67,73,65,71,75],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai-and-jobs","tag-ai-conspiracy","tag-ai-denial","tag-ai-misinformation","tag-ai-skepticism-movement","tag-artificial-intelligence-myths","tag-automation-skepticism","tag-distrust-in-ai","tag-ethical-ai-concerns","tag-fear-of-ai","tag-future-of-ai","tag-public-perception-of-ai","tag-skepticism","tag-tech-paranoia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fraudulenttimes.com\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}