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Episode: 4454
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Title: HPR4454: AI, It's a Trap!
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4454/hpr4454.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-26 00:49:48
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4454 for Thursday the 28th of August 2025.
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Today's show is entitled A.I. It's a trap. It is hosted by Archer 72 and is about four
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minutes long. It carries a clean flag. The summary is Archer 72 talks about A.I.
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the tolls.
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Hello, this is Archer 72 for Hacker Public Radio. In this episode, it seems that A.I. is a trap.
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This overarching generalization is my opinion and may not reflect the opinions of HPR.
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So the backstory to this is that I was listening to the 26-hour Hacker Public Radio New Year show
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and the discussion came up in the Tech and Coffee Telegram channel. My resolution was to stop
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using chat GBT for an A.I. chatbot with the implication being to not using A.I. at all,
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but instead using duct-to-go and brave search. Probably less than a week or two later, I was trying
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to figure out something and figured that I'd use the easy way and use cloud A.I, which is actually
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pretty good if you have short and concise questions. I found that if you do have a long drawn-out
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question, it is better to do a Google or a duck search and document your results. I document with
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them, but you can use whatever tool is best. This way, you can clearly show what works and what
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doesn't work and refer to what you find later, instead of relying on an online service.
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And sometimes, depending on the A.I. by using exporting is not very straightforward
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with the exception of the duck A.I. that has a button for a quick share of a text file,
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then you share it to yourself somewhere else like proton mail.
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Well, over the past weekend, I was making a quick upload button to my own server.
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The previous weekend, I got HTTPS working. This was just from following the guide on the
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Let's Encourft website. At least that time, instead of using the A.I. bot, I just followed the
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clear documentation. See, the thing about going right to the Debian Wiki or the Arch Wiki is that
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users and developers have already documented plenty. I figured out that part of the hacker method
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is not to take the easy way, but to document out what you are trying to learn.
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So, this past weekend, I was trying to learn something about that upload form, and I probably
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took longer going back and forth with the A.I. bot than if I had taken the time to search the
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documentation. And even if it did take longer with the documentation, I would have learned
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something else and created a Markdown document of my own. There was a tool I used once in a while,
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which is part of the Duck Duck Go search called Assist. This can be good because I have a horrible
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memory. If there is something small that I can't remember how to do, I let Duck Assist take care of
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it. But recently I have turned off the option where it says to sometimes show Assist, but instead
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only when it is on demand. That way I won't be tempted to go down a rabbit hole in order to find
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what I am looking for. Instead, base what I am looking for on standard tools. So yes, A.I.
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is a trap, but it is also useful for certain things. If you are careful how you use it is not always a
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bad thing. This has been Archer 72 for hacker public radio. Feel free to comment on this or any other
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show. Ken says it is the mana by which we pair host. I also feel free to record a response show
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to this or any other show. And as a hookah would say, remember to support free software. Bye bye.
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You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio. Hacker Public Radio does a walk. Today's show
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was contributed by a HBR listener like yourself. If you ever thought of recording a podcast,
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click on our contribute link to find out how easy it really is. Hosting for HBR has been kindly
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provided by an honesthost.com, the internet archive and our sings.net. On this otherwise status,
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today's show is released on their creative commons, attribution 4.0 international license.
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