As suggested on a Facebook post, I posted this question to ChatGPT:

If you were to make a caricature of me based on what you know about me, what would it look like? Create the image.

I pictured you as a warm, curious, slightly mischievous “question-asker” surrounded by books, ideas, coffee, and a very unimpressed cat.

Interesting note - I did not have an account until today.

I went with a Healer-Seer / Dreamer-Questioner archetype: your recognizable features, glasses, warm expression, a moonlit staff, a watchful cat, mountains, forests, books, and firelight all woven into a cinematic character profile.

I've been reading a Facebook group called Canadian Archive. The description sounds sincere, like someone who has an interest in Canada and Canadian history. It says there may be mistakes... It does not say (directly) that it is all AI generated content. Information and images are pretty random and incorrect in too many cases. AI slop!

This account comes from a fictional persona called Gen Pop. Also Will Srsly (seriously?). It describes itself as a fictional persona. How will a fictional personal appear if it wins this Top Host thing? Or is it all online and won't make any difference. Will people just assume they are talking to a real person? Not a persona.

I unfollowed the Canadian Archive group and left a note for others to see. Likely it will be removed. Whoever has set up all those accounts is a real person, somewhere. Raking in money through Facebook (likely YouTube and other social media accounts too) and AI garbage. AI pollution!

Are all the "Top Hosts" fictional/ AI people? https://tophost.org/2026/will-srsly is fictional. It says so on its Facebook page. The content is AI generated and mostly incorrect and random. https://www.facebook.com/canadianarchive https://www.facebook.com/groups/1746660390081039/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/767567172868485/ - These are the ones I found, there are probably more.

**Gen Pop - https://www.facebook.com/groups/767567172868485/ 1.8K followers • 11 following Because people are special everywhere you go.

Hosted by Canada’s Will Srsly

This profile represents a fictional persona. Posts may contain exaggeration or imagined scenarios. There's no need to get upset.**

The above is cut and pasted from the profile for this AI fictional persona! You might want to check the other submissions for Top Host. How many AI's are in the running?

People using mobile phones are always being tracked. Which means they are constantly being hunted and don't at all know who is hunting them. Which means they are prey. Don't waste time hiding or running, your phone is designed to tell all the hunters what you are doing, when you are doing it, where you are doing it and even who you are with. With AI it will be deciding why you are doing all you are doing. It may not get it right. AI will do as people ask it, but it won't understand what you meant, just what it assumed. Like a genie in the magic lamp, it will take you at your word, literally.

Andrew Chang on CBC explained the problems with AI very well.

I'm surprised (and not surprised) by how many people use AI for making/ writing anything. Kind of amazing how quickly its becoming common use. Like bottled water and cell phones. Almost overnight "everyone" uses them.

AI is great for mass producing/ marketing but pretty useless for any real information. AI just repeats what it finds and has no sense of what is safe, real, harmful, factual, true etc. Of course nothing original or unique comes from an AI - it can't.

Plus, it doesn't have to care. In writing its a sure sign of someone out to make a buck and not caring what slop they publish. I'd consider AI for making a website, the mechanics of putting a site together, but not for images I add. Those would just be copied from someone else without them knowing. I haven't tried it for a site yet.

I won't use AI for one single word I write. I write for myself, and anyone else who wanders by, but mainly I want to write - me, my voice, my thoughts, my responsibility.

If an AI writes for you - you have no voice and you likely think using an AI is an excuse should something you write be questioned. "I didn't write it, the AI did, I'm blameless". I wonder how long that will work for people using an AI.

FakeGamerGirl - The Internet is DEAD

In her video post she talks about more than I had thought or known. Particularly about job searches now. I did know businesses use AI, or other software, to scan applications for keywords rather than bothering to actually read any resumes or applications. This turns finding employees into who uses the right keywords most often rather than finding someone actually competent and capable of doing whatever the job is. So, what kind of people are being employed? How many engineers does it take to build a bridge or building that doesn't fall down if none of them really know what they are doing - but they are just great at keywords.

Think about self driving cars. People feel they can't trust an AI or software to drive a car. How do you feel about having a human driver if they were hired without knowing whether or not they have a valid diver's license or have been charged as a drunk driver, or worse. That's just one career/ job. There are so many more!

Dead Internet Theory - Wikipedia • The dead Internet theory is a conspiracy theory that asserts that, since around 2016, the Internet has consisted primarily of bot activity and automated content manipulated by algorithmic curation. This alleged coordinated effort aims to control the population and reduce genuine human interaction.

I haven't heard of this theory by name. But, I've been online since 1996 and this is something I have thought for many years and it is just getting worse. I do not use a mobile phone and I find more and more Internet things are trying to force people to use a mobile phone and take their information. Its all about marketing, marketing is a predator. It is very much NOT human friendly.

Does it matter any more if the marketing even makes any money when they just want to collect information to sell to some other company? Who cares if the data is correct, as long as there is a lot of it. Phony built on top of phony.

Why does so much need to be online now? Really, it wasn't that long ago that the Internet hardly existed outside of science/ technology. I know many young people now don't know life without the Internet, but its just another tool, a means of communication. It's really weird how people have become so obsessed, addicted and reliant on it. Do you ever wonder who decided everything had to be online?

Why is it so hard now to manage without having/ using a mobile phone? I don't use one and I struggle to deal with things like banking, verification of your personal information. Passwords were abandoned because they don't provide information which can be collected and sold.

So much is pushed online and why? Really? Why are people being led so easily and so stupidly. People do not seem to really think for themselves any more. What does Google say.... Turn up the music Alexa... Cashiers can't even count change to the point of 5 - 2 is 3. (Don't bother to say I'm mean to cashiers or some other politically correct cancel culture nonsense - I was a cashier for a long time myself. I could do basic math without a calculator, or phone).

AI is taking over the jobs people would like to have and leaving you to wash your own dishes, cut your own grass, shovel your own you know what. It already has gone too far. But, its still going.

I wonder where the money is going to keep coming from if most people are unemployed and can't keep buying stuff/junk. Or pay bills. Who will keep the lights on, literally?