A Web for humans

Saturday, January 11, 2025 · Permalink

As time passes, I keep stumbling with more and more AI-generated product reviews, tech tutorials and «content.» Even Google search results have an AI-generated summary right at the top of the page. And don’t get me started on AI-generated pictures!

Now, more than ever, we need more human-generated content; humans writing original thoughts for a human audience. I don’t want to browse a World Wide Web overflowing with tokens shuffled around by algorithms.

This was an unexpected call to write again on my blog, to do my part producting content. I publicly vow I’ll never use AI to generate any content whatsoever in this blog. Yes, AI is a powerful tool that’s useful when it’s a means to an end. But as the world is finding its balance and presently flooding with AI-content, I propose we push back with 100% human-generated content.

I’m not against AI, but the current abuse and misuse of it. AI to help us crack incurable sicknesses? What an amazing thing! AI to audibly describe a picture to a blind girl? More of that, please! AI to understand the language of an uncontacted tribe opening to us? Let’s hope it’s not death threats for poisoning their waters!

Whatever your thing is, do it and please publish it on the Web! Write, paint, sing, sew, sculpt, compose–do it! We need you, your perspective on life, your opinion, your beliefs, your style, your voice, your soul. A Web for humans by humans!

Here’s the JSON Feed

Saturday, September 9, 2023 · Permalink

This blog now has a JSON Feed, so I can be added to Icaplanet!

Icaplanet is an old Planet, a feed aggregator, written by Oliver which used to aggregate many blogs from Ica-based friends, long before social media took over the internet. I believe things will go full circle someday and blogs will come back.

So, Oliver is reimplementing Icaplanet and he’s using JSON Feed instead of plain old RSS. The domain was about to expire and he asked me if he should renew it. I have other priorities right now, writing on my blog is not on my short-term plans, but I don’t want Icaplanet to go the 99ovejas.com way (that’s a story for another day) so I said yes and I might post sporadically, no promises.

Oh yeah, feed’s here: https://jgwong.org/blog/feed/json

You can add me now, dude!

Wednesday, January 18, 2023 · Permalink

I wish my web server were in the corner of my room:

First there’s the feeling of “I made that!” which leads to the feeling of “I can make all kinds of things!” You will definitely get that more when you install the software on the web server yourself, and also when you copy over your own hand-coded text files. (The web is just text!)