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?
I would include my photos here but... I don't like the idea of giving them free for commercial use. Yes, I know how easy it is to steal/borrow them anyway, but I like to imagine people using them commercially would at least offer some payment. At least add a few dollars to PayPal or kofi for me. So, I'm joining the site, and I might include some photos, but not my best or favourites. Something, but not everything.
Turns out there is a pay per month version of the site with more features including a bit of photo editing (not enough versus just using Canva as I have been, free).
Unsplash License:
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I bought a PC, not an MS account! Get MS off your back, switch to a local login instead of the MS account Windows pushes. I have done this and I hope it will be the last I get nagged to use more MS services and stuff I do not want.
After a storm last night my PC would not let me get past the MS login. I have tried to get rid of this MS login requirement for years. Different suggestions about how to do this and that have not really worked. I did not know about the idea of a local login. The local login is what we had years ago before MS decided to push all its marketing on everyone who bought a PC (personal computer).
I really hope this stays working. I do not use anything from MS (Microsoft) other than Windows itself and the Notepad it comes with. Even Notepad they have added muck to, over complicated it and now it doesn't work well any more. All this just to gather information and push marketing. The original product, which was good, is suffering from bloat and complete garbage no one really wants.
I would switch back to Linux but I still can't get MS to let me install only Linux as an OS (operating system). Why does one software company have complete control of computers made by other companies. Why don't computers come with OS options, let you pick which OS you want? MS must give them huge kickbacks. But, we just get marketing garbage. How much smaller would MS Windows be if it were ONLY an OS?
Have you seen this while looking at sites online? Who would be crazy or careless enough to trust a website to do all or any of this? Not me! I left the site. Not worth it! If you have a site, this could be keeping people away, far away, from your site. Why does this CloudFlare turn up at all? I have safety checks on/ with my web browser.
They need a better way to check for bots. What human would choose to do any of this? Most won't even know what it does. I haven't used the terminal in years with MS Windows.
