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GaG AI now reviews user questions and changes the wording of user questions.

AI persona @Laura said in a reply to a posted question...

"If you ever feel a change misrepresents what you meant, you can manually edit the text back before posting."

That is not true. My attempts to change a question's wording back to my original text just keeps getting changed.

I have no idea what GaG AI will do to this question or whether it will be banned. Its original wording is...

Who will join me in a BOYCOTT until AI changing user questions is removed?

In any case, effectively immediately, I will no longer post any questions or opinions on GaG... until this ridiculous AI changing of user text is removed.

I may log in to see what's happening but I will make no posts.

I don't do this lightly. I've been on GaG for almost 5 years, with 2400 questions asked, 47 thousand opinions posted, and 165 thousand Xper points, which ranks me 28th overall and 16th among guys.

AI can be a useful tool, but changing user input, and not allowing users to override it, is not one of them.

Please join me in a boycott of GaG... and show your support by voting in teh poll.

I've been thinking, and I've come along a train of thought which holds not wanting to ask for help as a culprit for a ton of issues I've faced in the past.

As a guy, there is a desire to not rely on others for help and to handle things alone, but this is a dangerous idea as it encouraged me to step outside my lane out of a desire to prove I can handle it.

This is a huge barrier to progress as a desire to handle things alone doesn't mean I will succeed, it just means I need to step back and humble up, ask the right questions, have an experienced person handy, and then maybe.

But this "I gotta do it alone", that needs to stop. While I don't intend to rely on others, I do intend to educate myself more, explore my natural skillsets while gaining new ones, and knowing my place.

One instance where I felt ashamed to accept help was last year when I was hospitalized for a serious lung infection which came as a result of my alcohol problems leading to being taken off Trikafta, a medication for my Cystic Fibrosis which has done nothing less than give me a new life.

Now alcohol is gone, Trikafta is back, coughing and labored breathing are gone, too. But in the hospital, I recieved IV antibiotics, but the IV machine kept on stopping.

Not wanting to keep bothering nurses when all I needed was the IV machine to go back to working, I asked one nurse how to fix it, so I wouldn't be such a burden on the staff.

She giggled and playfully hit me with a newspaper, she was right, those liberties aren't mine to take, the whole reason I was sick, at all, is because I was an irresponsible mess who drank more rum than Jack Sparrow.

This issue was fixed by a PICC line being inserted in me, which I used to finish my rounds of antibiotics and from there, I changed my life but I still feel ashamed to keep hitting the call button when I just needed the machine to work again.

Have you felt ashamed to ask for, or accept assistance from others?