WordPress have added an 'Improve with AI' option to their 'new post' sidebar
4d 11h ago by slrpnk.net/u/frankPodmore in fuck_ai
That's it.
I thought you might all like to tell them to fuck off, as I already have. It's 'opt-in' at the moment but I'm damn close to deleting my entire site anyway. I will do if they make it 'opt-out' instead.
They've added a 'ensloppify with AI feature' more like
'Wow, your blog is so great! Have you thought about making it really fucking generic instead?'
That's not the whole truth and makes your post seem a little ragebaity. The AI assistant is not available on WordPress sites that you host yourself. It's only available for WordPress blogs that are available on wordpress.com. The WordPress software itself does not come with AI features.
More details about this are here.
There are plugins for adding AI garbage to WP, like the "AI Experiments" plugin, but it's not getting auto-installed and likely never will be.
It's not ragebait. I use a wordpress.com site, and WordPress have added an 'Improve with AI' option to the new post sidebar as I see it; these are facts! I don't see that I need to go around and verify that its been added to every variant of WordPress site before I say that it's there. It is there.
Sure, but there's a difference between the software and some hosting provider hosting this software, even if it's on wordpress.com. But I don't hold it against you, that domain is deliberately confusing.
And Matt tried to claim WP Engine was confusing.. what a herb.
You are not understanding the difference between the commercial website wordpress.com and the open source project called WordPress that it runs on.
WordPress.com and WordPress are not the same thing. WordPress.com has added AI on top of the WordPress open source project which does not include AI.
I am not confused. The distinction you are making is irrelevant to me. Yet another thing I use every day has had AI shoehorned into it and I'm annoyed about that. Telling me that it's only the host, not the software, does not suddenly make me okay with it.
I'd rather spend billions on teaching people how to write better than AI slop, but here we are
They want everyone on the internet so sound exactly the same.
And to say exactly the same
Almost every builder like Elementor and Divi have been pushing AI for a while, now. I hated it at my previous job. And now WordPress itself too?
Not the WordPress software, only the hosting service wordpress.com - they are not the same.
Personally, I use GeneratePress which does not have any AI features. It's just simple and competent page building with custom HTML and CSS (if you want to). The Divi developers can burn in hell for writing that dumpster fire of a software.