: I’ve been using this metaphor as "doing AI is intellectual masturbation":
https://ploum.net/2026-08-17-onanisme_ia.html
But I’ve received numerous complaint that masturbation is, in fact, a good thing and that we should talk about it more openly ;-)
So I changed it to "your weird sexual fetish" in the English version :
https://ploum.net/2026-09-09-ai_policy.html
But, still, some people don’t like the analogy. So be careful !
ploum
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