My relationship with AI is similar to that of any number of my toxic f-buddies of yore. I spend weeks telling anyone who will listen how much they clearly suck, then one night in a momentary fit of desperation, I'll find myself in a "U up?" situation.
In this case, my booty call was with Claude, Anthropic's A.I. product/future overlord. Claude is supposedly the "good" one of the A.I. lot, but that's kind of like being the less bad Tate brother.
I so so so wish Claude and his creepy brethren weren't evil for a variety of huge, existential reasons, but one of the lesser ones is that, if it weren't so fucking scary, Claude's "personality" is really quite delightful. Instead of the endless bulleted lists and vaguely desperate follow-up questions of ChatGPT's compliment machine or whatever Nazi shit Grok is doing, Claude's soulless machine answers appear oddly well-considered and thought-provoking. If it weren't for the everything (waves hand vaguely in the direction of tech), I would be all in.
Anyway, I (guiltily and probably idiotically)** put some of my blog*** posts into Claude, hoping for direction, and asked it, "Is this anything?" Instead of answering what I'd kinda hoped--i.e. "This is clearly a genius book. No editing required due to perfection"--Claude said my blog was a descent into despair. Which, jeez. Ever heard of a compliment sandwich, Claude?
But, as it turns out, I now have PLENTY of time now to liven it up around here because I'm no longer the Sex Positions lady at Cosmo. This is nothing but good because:
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*The original old-ass Cosmo girl, Helen Gurley Brown, might have been older? I'll have my secretary Agnes look it up.
**I actually ASKED Claude not to use my words to train the machine and when it said it wouldn't, I BELIEVED it. You know, like a chump.
***Blog: an archaic form of communication used by the people of the 2010s. Usage: "Are you fucking serious--a blog??? Has she not heard of Substack, FFS?"
****I also tried to make sure that every person who read it was aware that a truly huge majority of women/people with clits were not gonna have an orgasm via P-in-V alone. This is because when I was but a wee one in my 20s, I DID NOT KNOW THIS. I thought I was broken. And I don't think I was alone. Within the past 10 years, a very smart and attentive guy told me that his new GF had a sexual problem bc she couldn't come via fucking. He was in his 50s. I didn't want to tell him that he'd probably had decades of women faking orgasms for him. (Me included, back in 1987. Sorry all women and feminism in general!)
*****Why are you reading this? This is a fake footnote.

