06/08/2026
I look at this as the digital revolution, much akin to the industrial revolution. They both brought much upheaval, and they'll both bring much progress and benefit in the end once the dust settles. There WILL be growing pains. We've felt them ourselves, my husband is going on 8 months being out of work on the tech industry. But what happens if we don't keep up with the rest of the world? What happens if China or Russia or whatever country that doesn't like us gets way more compute power? AI isn't only being used for quick graphic design or witty posts. As the post pointed out, big companies are heavily converting as we speak. So is government. So are other countries. So are all the millitaries. I know the advent of AI brings the possibility of some really scary things, but so does the notion of not keeping the pace with the rest of the world. There were many voices speaking out against the industrial revolution as well, and some progress was indeed slowed. That's both good and bad, good in the sense that slow growth is usually less painful, and bad in that we all could have been living better lives in some ways. I just caution at what people speak out against. Speak out against specific uses, specific scenarios that will be harmful, not against AI in general. AI itself is neither good nor bad, it's a tool. If we weild this tool correctly, it will be for our benefit. If we let this tool be mishandled, it will be for our detriment. Regardless, it's here, and it's not going away.
“No more AI slop posters!”
“Stop supporting businesses using AI to write their content!”
We see it everyday all over the internet. I saw it this morning on Facebook. You’re reading about it here right now.
The irony is that if you’re seeing it on social media, you’re already using AI. Right now, this second. It’s how you found my little farm account. It’s why you even care about the use of AI slop.
And that’s what always strikes me about these conversations.
Some of the strongest anti-AI opinions come from people using social media platforms, search engines, online stores, social media feeds, gps apps, and customer service tools powered by AI every single day.
Yet somehow the outrage often gets directed at the smallest businesses.
A multinational corporation uses AI to optimize pricing, advertising, logistics, inventory, customer behavior tracking, and employee schedules, marketing campaigns, on and on, and nobody thinks twice about it.
A small farm or local farmers market uses AI to help make a flyer, write a social media post, or create a graphic because they don’t have a marketing department, graphic designer, copywriter, photographer, and advertising team… and suddenly that’s where the line gets drawn.
What interests me isn’t AI itself. It’s how differently we judge the same tool depending on who’s using it.
For a lot of small farms and rural businesses, AI isn’t replacing the work. It’s helping them compete in a system that was never built for them in the first place.
The tomatoes still need planted. The goats still need milked. The herbs still need harvested. The products still need made. The market still needs attended.
All so people like you and me buy their product instead of at Walmart.
A farmer using AI to help make a flyer doesn’t make them a phony, any more than using a tractor makes the farm less authentic.
The question isn’t whether AI exists. It’s who gets a pass to use it. And usually it’s the small businesses, the local farms, the little guy who the public scrutinizes most.
If you value not using visually identifiable AI in your business, that’s a great value for you to have. But you’re still using by nature of the systems we participate in.
If you’re a small business in a rural community using AI to try and market your products or run more profitably and efficiently, I just want you to know how sorry I am that you’re continuously mocked. I’ll still drop in and patron your store to buy the products you spend a lot of time caring for and creating.
