12/02/2025
RANT TIME! Not gonna lie. THIS is what pi**es me off about Artificial Intelligence. It makes pieces of crap posts like this look like journalism to the average person who doesn't know any better. Do you think "Amelia Collins" is a motorsports journalist? Do you think he/she/it/them even interviewed any of the people "it" references in this little B.S. blurb about Gordon Smiley? "It" probably stole the photo off of a website, another FB page, or wherever, then went to ChatGPT or Grok and said, "write an article on the tragic death of Gordon Smiley," and now "it" is being served up to me to follow. "It" is probably some dude in Russia or some kid in Indonesia who doesn't even know the difference between Gordon Smiley and Gordon Ramsey. "It's" probably never seen a race at Indy, and it's certainly never talked to any of the people mentioned in this farce of a story. However, people look at this photo, then they read the story, and they instinctively react to a tragic tale with a follow, like, comment, or share . . . and "it" gets paid because of this clickbait s**t, while other people out there are trying to make a difference to inform, enlighten, or even entertain people with REAL CONTENT get scraps and end up giving up social media. I'm not going to lie, the photo is what caught my eye, but the way the two photos are tied together with the "Amelia Collins" watermark in between them is what made me do a double-take. "Amelia Collins" did not take those photos, and "Amelia Collins" did not write that copy. Facebook won't combat it either, because people will click on it and interact with it, so they make money either way. Meanwhile, the photographer and the real journalists, who probably told a truer story than the drivel written here, get no money and certainly no credit for the work they did. THIS is the dumbing down of our society, and it makes me sick. I urge everyone to go and seek out real photographers and real journalists and see/read the material they put out. Don't be fooled by this B.S. that is just out there trying to steal your attention and making you dumber for it! THIS is what is wrong with social media — there is NO ONE at the controls to monitor this crap. Rant over . . .