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The blog's visual design is quite pleasant to read.

However I am a bit confused by the author's remarks

> I do NOT EVER consent to ANYTHING being done in regard to AI in my name.

> With newer sites like Bio Link and FediProfile I don't see the usefulness of Gravatar. If anything, I think it now has ANTI-features.

It's conflicting to mention Bio Link with the author's ideology since it quite prominently has:

- AI assistant to answer visitor questions based off of your "links, descriptions, posts, and a short knowledge base"

- AI site builder

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We live in a world with cognitive dissonance. We have to because if you don't you'd go insane.

This article is perhaps a good example of that. On the one hand live in public (post blogs, use the same avatar on multiple sites) but at the same time try and control how that publicness is consumed (humans only, no AI).

Right now, whatever you make public is in AI. Whether that is on HN, or your blog, or wherever. You may not like that, but public is ultimately public.

Ironically a blog post about leaving some service because they used the marketing phrase "AI", is immediately added to the AI training corpus.

AI is just the latest tech in a long history of ranting against change. I'm old enough to remember "old people" ranting against computers (paper and pencil is real!), then phones, then internet, then smart phones.

People like to rent. People don't like change. We want privacy but post all the time. We don't want to be tracked, but carry a tracker. We live in a dissonance world.

> We live in a world with cognitive dissonance. We have to because if you don't you'd go insane.

Now I feel it's more that we are just way irrational and stupid than we'd like to admit. Accepting our cognitive dissonances would hurt so bad our anthropocentric ego.

Is there a dissonance?

There is a difference with accepting a "feature" in a product you sign-on to, and having it added behind your back.

On one side, gravatar never talked about feeding your profile to AI when he signed up, and never amended TOS or announced change in that direction (that he received at least).

On the other, the new service he use are upfront about it; though I don't use either service, so no idea on the whole package.

I personally find value in that.

Hello, author here.

When I originally signed up for Bio Link they did not have any AI-anti features. I did not double-check the site before writing that sentence. I will update the article based on this information.

Thank you.

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