{"id":7038,"date":"2025-11-21T18:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ai-is-a-sham\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:38:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T02:38:44","slug":"ai-is-a-sham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ai-is-a-sham\/","title":{"rendered":"AI is a sham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the Vergecast playing in the background while I was making dinner, and they were talking about AI agents being added to everything.<\/p>\n<p>And they showed a &quot;Wow, look at this amazing function!&quot; ad where you can have a picture of a place open on your screen, share the screen image with the AI agent, and ask it &quot;How do I get there?&quot; And it will tell you what planes to take, what directions to use, etc.<\/p>\n<p>But then the guy sharing that ad showed that the AI agent was just using the file name.<\/p>\n<p>He changed the name of the file to &quot;New Jersey place name&quot; and the AI agent started giving directions on how to go to New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all smoke and mirrors!<\/p>\n<p>~Harper Kingsley<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/paypal.me\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley\">https:\/\/patreon.com\/harperkingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck\">https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/harperwck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0\">https:\/\/amazon.com\/shop\/harperkingsley0<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog\">https:\/\/www.harperkingsley.net\/blog<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/kimichee.com\">https:\/\/kimichee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social\">https:\/\/harperkingsley.bsky.social<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley\">https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/HarperKingsley<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the Vergecast playing in the background while I was making dinner, and they were talking about AI agents being added to everything. And they showed a &quot;Wow, look at this amazing function!&quot; ad where you can have a picture of a place open on your screen, share the screen image with the AI&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/ai-is-a-sham\/\" title=\"AI is a sham\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AI is a sham<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"Layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["entry","author-harperkingsley0-0","post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2pPoL-1Pw","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6794,"url":"https:\/\/harperkingsley.net\/blog\/come-on-youtube\/","url_meta":{"origin":7038,"position":0},"title":"Come on, YouTube","author":"Harper Kingsley","date":"August 24, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I am admittedly a YouTube \"creator,\" but I am also a part-time user. 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