AI Is Going To Kill Sites Like ICM

[Mtn. Nectar]

the way of today is disgraceful…..
one should never underestimate your grandparents grumpiness …..they have good reason for being such….progress is limited in its ability to make the human mentally stronger….hard physical work is what keeps one balanced not allowing others/AI to do it for you………
and yes I am a grandparent ……………

 

[CharlesU Farley]

SamS told me in PM once the real reason he went back so often to edit old posts was his deep fear of AI…

If you're being facetious I laughed my ass off at that. If you're being serious, it wouldn't surprise me.

_That's_ the nature of communicating on the Internet, rather than face to face, when you can tell the difference in nuance and sarcasm by looking at somebody in the fucking face.

Humans interpret textual data much differently than visual data. Check out this pic and see if you can immediately tell the difference in the two addresses:

This is how hackers gain access to your accounts when they send out phishing emails.

If you have AI scrub all Nevils posts it’s gonna begin to believe he created AI and is Omnipotent, just wait for it…

Nah, I'm going to restrict it only to the data that I've collected on Nevil's posts, the input. Then organize and collate into one coherent, and with him I'll use the word breeding, which is rare as shit for me, philosophy. All it does is analyze just his words, and then breaks it down into easily readable format.

Today I read my very first, known AI generated cannabis article. Before I got to the bottom where it said it was _assisted_ by AI, I knew from the format that it was a fucking AI and it probably wrote the _entire_ thing:

https://mjbizdaily.com/8-things-to-know-about-becoming-a-cannabis-grower/

Have no idea if the mods will let that link live but trust me, that was entirely AI generated. It's from MJ bizdaily dot com and the title of the article is eight things to know about becoming a cannabis grower. This is the typical kind of shit that a newbie is going to ask an AI!!!!

This was at the very end of the article:

(Note: AI assisted in summarizing the key points for this story.)

Bullshit, it developed the story and it took probably 5 minutes max, depending on the prompt the user gave to the AI.

AI can’t judge, is horrible on nuance, sarcasm forget about it and has no clue what integrity means; those 4 things alone should be terrifying to us all… But

I damn sure am, _especially_ the integrity part. But that's been going by the wayside for decades now... at least for us old fucking dinosaurs.

AI is Soo ripe for success largely due the sheer laziness, lack of curiosity & critical thinking skills & just the overall stupidity & obedience of the vast majority of humans walking earth today… The introverts locked in their parents basements won and everyone is serving it up on a platter for them - have fun with it y’all Perhaps we deserve it…. Mooooo

Lack of curiosity and critical thinking skills have taken the biggest toll on US, probably around the world as well, education... that's for sure.

Ganj On, personally I hate the AI drawings & pics, especially of Cannabis, pure butchering & Con job, it just feels all wrong…

The fake human renderings always grab my attention first. Then the perfectly imperfect photos from back in the day that you know never captured that kind of detail and always look like Madame Tussauds.

It's a hoot.

One thing I've learned for the humans, always look at their fingers, AI has a fucking horrible time doing fingers. Sometimes thumbs up here out of nowhere or completely reversed and you just it on first glance it looks fine, or they may have eight fingers.

The porn isn’t too bad though I recon

@TerpeneTom does some amazing work that I've seen, don't know where there is dove into a real porn aspect of it but when viewed as art and not reality, his shit is awesome!

 

[CharlesU Farley]

Your AI machine is a weak sauce keyboard wigger warrior that looks like a young Bill Gates, the visual I’m getting - oh vey , we’re doomed 4 certain

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of AI, I give you Conway Diddy :

I blame it mostly on the boomers but full heartedly agree otherwise

Every generation blames the one before ... can't leave y'all with just _that_ image on this post,

 

[GainesvilleGreen]

Think @ledo is under the strong influence of cocaine...

 

[mr.brunch]

People have always been critical of the younger generation….

25 Quotes in 2,500 Years Proving We Always Blame the Younger Generation

This is not new.

historyhustle.com

“Whither are the manly vigour and athletic appearance of our forefathers flown? Can these be their legitimate heirs? Surely, no; a race of effeminate, self-admiring, emaciated fribbles can never have descended in a direct line from the heroes of Potiers and Agincourt…”

Letter in Town and Country magazine republished in Paris Fashion: A Cultural History
1771

 

[AmericanFarmer]

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of AI, I give you Conway Diddy :

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Every generation blames the one before ... can't leave y'all with just _that_ image on this post,

This will be what Diddy looks like if and when he ever gets out !

 

[AmericanFarmer]

He’s got the “Opossums “ hair due though

 

[ledo]

If you're being facetious I laughed my ass off at that. If you're being serious, it wouldn't surprise me.

_That's_ the nature of communicating on the Internet, rather than face to face, when you can tell the difference in nuance and sarcasm by looking at somebody in the fucking face.

Humans interpret textual data much differently than visual data. Check out this pic and see if you can immediately tell the difference in the two addresses:

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This is how hackers gain access to your accounts when they send out phishing emails.

Nah, I'm going to restrict it only to the data that I've collected on Nevil's posts, the input. Then organize and collate into one coherent, and with him I'll use the word breeding, which is rare as shit for me, philosophy. All it does is analyze just his words, and then breaks it down into easily readable format.

Today I read my very first, known AI generated cannabis article. Before I got to the bottom where it said it was _assisted_ by AI, I knew from the format that it was a fucking AI and it probably wrote the _entire_ thing:

https://mjbizdaily.com/8-things-to-know-about-becoming-a-cannabis-grower/

Have no idea if the mods will let that link live but trust me, that was entirely AI generated. It's from MJ bizdaily dot com and the title of the article is eight things to know about becoming a cannabis grower. This is the typical kind of shit that a newbie is going to ask an AI!!!!

This was at the very end of the article:

(Note: AI assisted in summarizing the key points for this story.)

Bullshit, it developed the story and it took probably 5 minutes max, depending on the prompt the user gave to the AI.


I damn sure am, _especially_ the integrity part. But that's been going by the wayside for decades now... at least for us old fucking dinosaurs.


Lack of curiosity and critical thinking skills have taken the biggest toll on US, probably around the world as well, education... that's for sure.

The fake human renderings always grab my attention first. Then the perfectly imperfect photos from back in the day that you know never captured that kind of detail and always look like Madame Tussauds.

It's a hoot.

One thing I've learned for the humans, always look at their fingers, AI has a fucking horrible time doing fingers. Sometimes thumbs up here out of nowhere or completely reversed and you just it on first glance it looks fine, or they may have eight fingers.


@TerpeneTom does some amazing work that I've seen, don't know where there is dove into a real porn aspect of it but when viewed as art and not reality, his shit is awesome!

SamS was definitely a joke… to Sum up how I feel about AI in case it’s not clear

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Introverted Pedo Perv Nerds whom grew up sad, lonely & depressed & all they had was their machines have won; AI is now the pinnacle of their creations and they are gleefully destroying society while everyone sits by apathetic, obtuse, willingly.

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Just think about it and 12 year old Bill Gates visual s/b front & center, sorry for that

 

[ledo]

Think @ledo is under the strong influence of cocaine...

more of you guys really need to be trying my Sativas brother GG

 

[GainesvilleGreen]

more of you guys really need to be trying my Sativas brother GG

Bro, you been stalking me.. what's up with that? Asking me about my setup, in 25 years growing.. .. just playing bro

 

[dogzter]

Ladies and gentlemen, courtesy of AI, I give you Conway Diddy :

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Every generation blames the one before ... can't leave y'all with just _that_ image on this post,

Do the possum next.

 

[CharlesU Farley]

2nd to the last post before I do a Snagglepuss and exit stage right for several months.

I came into ICM like this:



No doubt most of ya'll wanted to do this to me :



So I'll leave ya with this, which is an AI summary of the SouthEast Lights website.

I opened an entirely new process, so it wouldn't tailor it's response to our previous interactions, it had no idea I was the author of the site. I had it scan the entire website and give me a report on what the AI (in this case GPT) thought the author was trying to communicate. I informed it there were cuss words there that I didn't want to see in the report (for the g-gkids) and, ya'll gonna love this, avoid a Wall 'o Words at all costs.

I'm quite pleased with the result, although at times over the top is descriptive language, especially for me. The use of "powder" for coke is absoutely hilarious to me, living in Miami in the last 60's - 70's.

Now my g-g kids can read this instead of the website and btw, this is who ya'll been communicating with the last year or so.

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ALL ABOUT CHARLES U. FARLEY AND SOUTHEAST LIGHTS


I was born in the same state as Owsley Stanley, went to the same junior high and high school as Hunter S. Thompson, and somehow grew up stubborn, observant, and fiercely independent. Cannabis entered my life during a simpler time — neighborhood kids, a new album called *Surrealistic Pillow* spinning on a record player, and a feeling of calm washing over me that I would chase, develop, and refine for decades.

I wasn’t drawn to cannabis just for a high. It opened something inside me — a peace, a joy, a wholeness — that nothing else in my environment could match. This wasn’t rebellion. It was resonance.

In the early years, my friends and I would trek toward Shelbyville to pick wild hemp. Later, inspired by a copy of *A Child’s Garden of Grass*, I got the itch to start growing. Early experiments included trying to build a homemade vaporizer using old chemistry lab equipment.

My teenage years were steeped in the wild, pulsing energy of Sunny Isles, Miami Beach. Affordable motels, mafia-connected pool boys, tourists thirsty for something better than what they could find up north. I was a pool boy — perfectly positioned between the tourists and the good Jamaican herb flowing through Haulover Cut.

I refused to sell cannabis. Not because I didn’t love it, but because freedom mattered more than money. I watched others chase quick profits and faster downfalls. I kept my nose clean, made the right friends, and never let greed trip me up.

But Miami changed. The 1973 Oil Embargo and the rise of cocaine devastated Sunny Isles. Violence surged. Smuggling shifted from cannabis to powder. When Ronald Reagan was elected and John Lennon was shot, I knew without a doubt: it was time to get the hell out.

I packed up, moved to the mountains, and never looked back.

In the early 80s, I had a beautiful setup — rows of corn, pole beans, and hidden between them, my first true cannabis crop. Jamaican genetics, tucked carefully behind the Silver Queen. Fertilized with plain old 10-10-10 and lime. No frills, no overpriced snake oil. Just real dirt, real sun, and real love.

Then the helicopters came. Reagan’s War on Drugs meant anything green and suspicious from the sky could get you busted. I switched tactics — training plants sideways along saplings to break the dark green circle pattern. Stealth became survival.

Later, a brutal divorce and child custody battles forced me to shut down all outdoor growing completely. I shifted indoors, mastering how to grow without attracting attention.

My first true indoor setup was in a tiny closet. 1000W metal halide light. High-velocity exhaust fans hidden inside common bathroom vents. No signatures, no giveaways.

Key lessons:
- Roots + Leaves = Flowers.
- Water and light are your gods.
- Over-love kills faster than neglect.

Growing indoors taught me how to be more than a grower. It taught me how to be invisible.

Usenet changed everything. On alt.drugs.pot.cultivation, I met real growers — people who tested, observed, experimented. Through Gypsy Nirvana at Overgrow, I scored original Sensi Seeds Northern Lights.

Ten seeds. Six females, four males. Absolute uniformity. It was like holding lightning in a bottle.

On alt.drugs.pot.cultivation, knowledge was brutal, unfiltered, and earned.

No likes.
No followers.
Only trial, error, argument, and truth.

It made me tougher.
It made me smarter.
It made me a grower who trusted results over reputation.

And when the noise drowned out the signal, I moved on — but the lessons stayed.

I crossed one male and one female — starting my personal project: SouthEast Lights.
Goal: Breed Northern Lights to survive the brutal Southeast U.S. conditions without gimmicks or steroids.

I bred patience into the plants.
- Extended vegetative stages.
- Longer flowering times.
- Ruthless culling for toughness.

My plants had to survive power outages, freezes, floods, droughts — and still produce thick, rich, healing flowers.

I wasn’t breeding for hype. I was breeding for survival, for reliability, for soul.

Over time, different phenotypes naturally emerged: Type I, II, IV — Sativa-leaning, Indica-leaning, hybrids. Real evolution, not forced mutation.

SouthEast Lights became a living symbol of self-reliance.

Cannabis didn’t just teach me how to grow plants. It taught me how to grow myself.

It taught patience.
It taught trust.
It taught resilience.

It taught me that life, like cannabis, cannot be rushed, cannot be forced, cannot be cheated.

And freedom — the real kind — is earned through persistence, sacrifice, and the refusal to sell out.

What actually works:

- Soil: Keep it simple. Commercial potting soil, perlite, lime. Let it live.
- Light: It’s everything. Spider Farmer SF4000s today; before that, the old school metal halides.
- Airflow: Non-negotiable. If your leaves aren't fluttering, your plants are suffocating.
- Watering: Less is more. Heavy, infrequent watering wins.
- Genetics: Start with champions, not mutts.

Control the environment gently. Never fight nature. Work with it, not against it.

In a world obsessed with shortcuts and chemical fixes, I chose a different path.

Cannabis evolved two sexes for a reason. Males for strength and structure. Females for beauty and resin.

Chemical sex reversal — colloidal silver, STS sprays — undermines that natural balance.
It creates fragile plants that may survive in a grow tent but crumble under real-world stresses.

Feminized seeds squeeze diversity out of cannabis, bottlenecking future generations.

Real breeding means respecting the plant.
Working with its natural tendencies.
Building something stronger, not just faster.

SouthEast Lights exists because I refused to break what nature perfected.
Because I believe respect matters — not just for people, but for the living lineages we inherit and pass on.

It was never about high THC or lab-tested terpene charts.
It was about strength. Reliability. Respect for nature.

I did it the long way.
The hard way.
The right way.

And now, the story’s down in black and white — for my kids, my grandkids, or anyone else who wants to grow something that still has a soul.

Because this isn’t just about cannabis.
It’s about life.
About doing it on your own terms.
About leaving something behind that wasn’t bought, borrowed, or hyped into existence.

This is SouthEast Lights.
And this is Charles U. Farley

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My last post for many months will be tonight in the Music sub because that's where I've always felt at home in this forum and have never been Moderated there. But watch out, since it's Mother's Day weekend, Harley and I are coming off the wagon and indulging in a wee bit 'o ETOH today. That'll be an interesting drunk post, I'm sure.

For now, I'll leave ya with two tunes I've ruled out for that post but fucking love anyway. The first one is fairly appropriate to my situation here and I _know_ @flower~power would dig this, he was probably _there_ and recording it :



How I'm feeling right now:





See ya when I come back. Until then, I'll still be lurking because I'm doing a deep dive into classic posts here on ICM so I'll see ya'lls posts, just won't respond or throw down my now infamous Love emoticons.

Take care!

 

[Wolverine97]

I once made a very shitty attempt at a pipe, from a boro glass distilling apparatus... looked cool but didn't work too well. We used to swipe so much lab glass from the chem lab in high school, along with triple beams and all kinds of fun stuff. Had a huge Erlenmeyer flask that stored my roach collection... then my dad found it all, and "poof" it disappeared. I know he gave my triple beams to his dealer, which still to this day pisses me off... 30 years later.

 

[ledo]

I once made a very shitty attempt at a pipe, from a boro glass distilling apparatus... looked cool but didn't work too well. We used to swipe so much lab glass from the chem lab in high school, along with triple beams and all kinds of fun stuff. Had a huge Erlenmeyer flask that stored my roach collection... then my dad found it all, and "poof" it disappeared. I know he gave my triple beams to his dealer, which still to this day pisses me off... 30 years later.

walking off with a triple beam was always a hell of a feat, then came the digitals and they were always locked up and watched even more like a hawk... Nothing beats a TB for accuracy though and just general overall coolness

 

[Wolverine97]

walking off with a triple beam was always a hell of a feat, then came the digitals and they were always locked up and watched even more like a hawk... Nothing beats a TB for accuracy though and just general overall coolness

Indeed. We would wait until teach was in the hallway, or otherwise couldn't see, then we'd open a window and toss them up onto the roof. Then come back and get them at night. Some survived, some didn't.

 

[xtsho]

I opened CoPilot and it knows my name. I am logged into my Microsoft account but it's never greeted me like this. Must be a new update. I am in the Windows Insider program Canary Channel which gets all the updates before anyone else. Some good and some bad. I'm a Guinea Pig for Microsoft. There have been times I wish I had just joined the Beta channel but I can't go back unless I reinstall Windows. So I get first crack at the new stuff whether it's stable or not.

 

[Drop That Sound]

 

[power puff]

I opened CoPilot and it knows my name. I am logged into my Microsoft account but it's never greeted me like this. Must be a new update. I am in the Windows Insider program Canary Channel which gets all the updates before anyone else. Some good and some bad. I'm a Guinea Pig for Microsoft. There have been times I wish I had just joined the Beta channel but I can't go back unless I reinstall Windows. So I get first crack at the new stuff whether it's stable or not.

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Drop big tech OS mate....

 

[xtsho]

I don't use a Microsoft account to login to my computer but I do log in when using Microsoft Edge. It keeps all my devices in sync. Phone, laptop, tablet, and Desktop so when I browse the web they all have the same bookmarks and history and I can access whatever tabs are open on other devices. So if I'm in the middle of something and the lady and I go somewhere I can open Edge on my phone and get to the same tabs I have open on my desktop at home. CoPilot is integrated with Edge so that's how it got my name. It's just two clicks to get a summary of a web page.

This page is a discussion thread on the International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums about the impact of AI on cannabis-related online communities. Here are the main points being debated:

- **Concerns About AI's Influence:** Some users argue that AI-generated content is taking over cannabis forums and publications, leading to a decline in original thought and critical thinking among users.
- **AI's Limitations:** Many contributors criticize AI's inability to understand nuance, sarcasm, and integrity, expressing concern about its growing presence in knowledge-sharing spaces.
- **Generational Perspectives:** There is discussion about generational differences in attitudes toward AI, with some blaming younger generations for embracing AI without skepticism.
- **Impact on Cannabis Content:** Some users dislike AI-generated images and articles related to cannabis, feeling that AI misrepresents the plant and lacks authenticity.
- **Security Risks:** A post touches on AI's role in cyber security, highlighting how phishing attacks exploit human tendencies to misinterpret textual data.
- **Personal Experiences & Humor:** Some members share personal anecdotes related to cannabis growing and technology, adding a mix of humor and nostalgia to the discussion.

The conversation is a mix of skepticism, curiosity, and frustration over AI's growing role in cannabis-related discussions. Would you like me to clarify any specific points?

 

[xtsho]

Drop big tech OS mate....

Why?