You know what really frosts my flakes?
AI upgrades.
Everyone out there is panicking that AI is taking over the world.
Meanwhile, those same people are clicking “accept update” faster than a kid grabbing candy.
Every update ads a new AI dimension.
As a business owner, I get hit every day with another message about some exciting new AI feature.
“Now with AI!” the ad screams.
Translation? “Now with a higher monthly fee.”
My calendar wants me to upgrade so a robot can schedule my life. My graphics program wants me to upgrade so a robot can create my images. Zoom wants me to upgrade so a robot can transcribe everything I say and Dropbox wants me to upgrade so a robot can find files I put there myself.
Apparently, remembering what I saved or said is now considered a legacy skill.
And I love it when AI tools offer to edit things that were created by other AI tools. So now we’ve got robots correcting robots and I’m just paying the bill.
But websites are the worst. One AI robot wants to design the page for me. Another one wants to write the content. Another one wants to generate SEO keywords so other robots can find it.
Then, I am told to add an AI chatbot so it can pop up to “help” my visitors, which really means annoy them before they even read a sentence.
Then I need an AI tool to moderate comments, which are mostly spam, created by AI bots, trying to sell junk to other AI bots.
At this point, I’m pretty sure my entire website is just robots talking to robots, and I’m over here funding the whole operation like a confused investor.
Pretty soon, I won’t even need visitors because the internet will just be a bunch of AI tools subscribing to each other’s newsletters.
I’m Grandpa Grumpy. Some people think I’m an AI-generated image. I assure you, if I were AI, I’d have better hair and a lot fewer opinions.
Find more of my very human complaints at grandpagrumpy.com.