Proof that A.I. Sucks- “Is ‘Crap’ A Bad Word?”
I have a disagreement with Artificial Intelligence. It started when I typed the question “Is ‘crap’ a bad word?” into a search engine, and the following response came up at the top of the page:
My first thought was, “I disagree. You suck, A.I.”
My second thought was, “How can ‘crap’ be a bad word when “it essentially means ‘nonsense’ or ‘rubbish'”?
Most bad words have to do with bodily functions, sexual references/body parts, or outright curses/slurs. ‘Crap’ refers to garbage. Its only connection to other bad words is that ‘crap’ has four letters in it, so people think of it as one of the four-letter words.
Even ‘crap’s etymology shows that centuries ago ‘crappe’ meant garbage. It’s not the same thing as the word ‘sh*t.’ (I don’t know why I still self-censor stuff on my own blog when everybody knows what I mean). Even worse, the A.I. answer was incomplete because it leaves out an explanation of the necessary components of a bad word. This is Incomplete Artificial Intelligence, otherwise known as I.A.I.
Another problem with the A.I.’s answer is that it makes people’s opinions part of the equation. ‘Crap’ is a bad word because people say it’s a bad word. That’s the type of gibberish that leads to fluff philosophical beliefs like “perception is reality” when, in reality, reality is reality, and individual perceptions by themselves are wrong most of the time.
To be fair to A.I. (I don’t know if I have to be fair to a computer program), it did state that ‘crap’ is “considered a mild swear word or vulgar slang.” It did NOT outright say that ‘crap’ was a bad word. So now we have A.I. hedging its beliefs. This is just getting worse. I didn’t ask if ‘crap’ was considered a bad word. I asked if it actually is. Artificial Intelligence. Pffft.
I grew up believing that ‘crap’ was a bad word and that it meant ‘waste or feces,’ but when I looked up the etymology of ‘crap’ in a dictionary years ago, I realized that I had been wrong all that time. And I was glad that I was wrong. I like saying ‘crap.’ And since more people will trust A.I than will trust me, I want A.I. to agree with me.
Unfortunately, A.I. sucks. But at least A.I. knows that it sucks.
Here’s the blog post that inspired my question to A.I.:
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I agree with the AI definition you got. It’s a mild swear word — entry level vulgarity. And it is associated with feces. “I gotta take a crap” or “He crapped his pants,” for example. And perception is, in reality, one’s reality. We’re all looking at the same world, the same data. And we can be optimistic about it or pessimistic. The glass is half empty or half full, depending upon our worldview. The reality is the glass is at 50% capacity. But how we perceive reality is indeed very subjective. Not philosophically, but factually. If I’m looking through rose colored glasses at snow, the snow looks rose-colored, my reality is rose colored. If I’m looking at it through orange-tinted glasses, it looks orange. And after a while, I forget my lenses are tinted, and I think I’m just seeing reality. But I’m seeing it my way. And someone else is seeing it another way. It’s the same data, the same “reality,” but we’re perceiving it differently. So in reality, one person’s reality is not the same as another’s. That’s the reality within reality.
I understand. If you think ‘crap’ is another word for feces, then, yeah, ‘crap’ would be considered a bad word. But A.I. said it meant ‘rubbish,’ which doesn’t quite reach the same level of distaste that feces does. Egads, this is kind of gross.
Anyway, that’s why A.I. sucks, and you don’t.