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Ai is a lie! As demonstrated by Brucifire.co.za

Ai is a lie! As demonstrated by Brucifire.co.za: The last time it was Batman flu. This time it’s Ai.

“The con is always on!” – Brucifire.

We decided at brucifire.co.za to catch this Artificial Intelligence wave. It’s a surf-reporting website. With a few twists and turns. And so we deployed an Artificial Intelligence strategy using bots and robbers. And we asked Ai for help on a few items.

This is what we found out…

The bots just rob the internet of its data. Correct or not. And puke it up as an answer presented with a bit of relevance from your prompt. Hardly an improvement on doing the research yourself.

And it’s mostly a LIE!

Bad Ai

Three examples…

1. “What is the chance of getting waves in JBay in summer”…the reply was regurgitated off data gleaned from websites providing commercial communications (guesthouses, surf brands)…and was a fair dinkum insult to anyone who knows anything – the word cyclone never featured once
2. “I asked something about Bruce Gold”…and got terms and phrases totally stolen and mashed together from interviews and websites – into an unholy cesspit of ground individualism and plagiarism
3. “Why do Hawaains under call the waves”…spat out some drivel about Hawaain surf culture and crap. Meanwhile, it was the Californians playing pranks on the Hawaains!

So Ai is surface-level drivel aggregated and mashed into some sort of answer, to a prompt. Because firstly, Ai cannot learn anyone’s secrets (or can it?). And secondly, Ai cannot adopt a character and produce anything charismatic since it can only mix and mash other people’s characters into one thing. It does not have its own character. Not even Grok with his sense of humour does. It’s all taken from data that already exists elsewhere already.

And now what if there are two answers to the same question? And what if those answers are different based on beliefs? Or bias? The things that make up a character?

There will never be an Artificial General Intelligence machine robot with its own character. Sure a computer program can emulate us in some ways. I mean, they have robots walking and jumping about the place. But to program feelings and character? Which are formed over a lifetime of human and cultural encounters and information processing.

Creatives need never worry about Ai taking on any of your creative juices. If anything, jump on some of the tools now available, to better your workflow every day. All of this data and machine learning costing billions of dollars, can be put to use for the betterment of society. Sometimes they even get it right…

Good Ai

Transcription – both ways. Either write your story, or record your voice…then produce your content with both methods. On many different platforms.

Video – getting easier and quicker every day it seems, tasks that could take a week, a year ago, now just take a few clicks.

Art – yes with a few prompt refinements, you can get a useable image, for FREE. You can even then convert this still to video with a few more points and clicks.

ALL the imagery in this gallery was AI Tool generated…even the girls?! Totally fake!

The Sardine News and its affiliates have concluded that it would be detrimental for us to deploy any Ai for content generation. All our content is original. We are pledging that although we may use Ai tools for production and workflow improvements (thumbnails and things), none of our writing or scripting will be done by any Ai. It would be an insult to you guys, our readers’ – actual intelligence. And ours!

More surfing at https://brucifire.co.za (where this whole, Ai drawn-out saga began). You can go fishing at https://thesardine.co.za/mydo. Spearfishing news and views at https://masterwatermen.co.za.

And the 2024 Sardine Run is just around the corner!

Do you need a fishing license to catch sardines?

Do you need a fishing license to catch sardines? Very interesting question this one. Came to me. So Lets read the rules together…

The Rules

You can download the rules in PDF form to your phone or computer and have them with you at all times. Its a very nicely put-together document and we should all be familiar with it.

DOWNLOAD

But here listed below, are the juicy bits, that might answer the big question…do you need a fishing license to catch yourself a few sardines in the shore break? With your bare hands. Or a bucket. A skirt. A t-shirt. Washing baskets work wonders…here goes…

General Regulations

Every recreational angler must pay for the right to fish
in marine waters by buying an annual (or temporary)
recreational fishing permit. Different types of fishing
permits are available including angling, spearfishing, boat
skipper, etc. These permits are available from the Post
Office.

• A recreational fishing permit entitles the holder to catch
  fish for own use only and not to sell or trade.
• The holder of a recreational angling permit is entitled to
  catch fish of the Class Pisces (i.e. bony fish, sharks, rays,
  skates and chimaeras) only with a rod, reel and line, to
  which no more than 10 hooks are attached.
• The holder of a recreational spearfishing permit is entitled
  to catch fish of the Class Pisces (i.e. bony fish, sharks, rays,
  skates and chimaeras) only with a speargun.
• The skipper of a vessel used for recreational fishing shall
  be in possession of a permit endorsed for recreational
  fishing from a vessel.
• The holder of a spearfishing permit shall not use any
  artificial respiratory equipment, except for a snorkel.
• The holder of a recreational fishing permit authorised to
  fish within a Marine Protected Area (MPA) must adhere
  to the conditions specific to that MPA.
• The holder of a recreational angling and/or spearfishing
  permit shall not catch or be in possession of:
  a) Any fish listed as a Prohibited Species.
  b) More than the daily bag limit listed for that species
  during any one day. Furthermore, there is an overall
  cumulative bag limit of ten (10) fish per person per day
  irrespective of the species caught, except that this
  does not apply to baitfish species where there is no
  bag limit or to species where the bag limit is greater
  than 10.
  MARINE RECREATIONAL
  FISHING REGULATIONS
  in South Africa
  c) Any fish smaller than, or of a mass less than, the size
  limit listed for that species.
  d) Any fish during the closed season listed for that species.
• The holder of a recreational spearfishing permit shall not
  catch or attempt to catch fish in an estuary.
• All fish that are landed, except sharks, skates, rays and
  chimaeras, must have head and tail intact so that it can be
  established whether the fish conforms to the minimum
  size and/or mass, provided that it may be gutted.
• Any fish caught in contravention of the provisions of
  the Act or the permit conditions must immediately be
  returned to the sea with as little injury as possible.

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Well, to me this certainly looks like it reads that everyone who collects anything from the ocean, in any way, needs a form of fishing license! Luckily I managed to get my license at the Port Shepstone Post Office. Since the South African Post Office stopped paying rent to all its cute little satellite and highly useful branches that were dotted all over the country. Little towns and villages. They all had these quaint versions of a cultural icon that we have ALL relied on for our whole lives up until recently. Pen pals. Mail order. Postcards…so much fun!

But they were all mercilessly culled off. Another ANC achievement. Shut down. Jobs and livelihoods gone. So now you got to hike to the bigger centres to find a working post office.

And get a fishing license!

And then when the officials come raiding your beach like stormtroopers, in their decked-out new bakkies, you can show them, the difference between a shad and a santer. With the PDF download on your phone.

Sardine Run 2023 Sightings Map

For a great overall perspective you can easily check out the interactive sardine and sightings map…updated constantly…right here…

2023 Sardine Run Map 

YouTube Channels

And we have some cool YouTube Channels to keep you entertained and informed of all things sardines, ocean and conservation.

The Sardine News

Surf Launching Southern Africa

MYDO Tackle Talk

Water Woes (best said in Afrikaans)

Enjoy the sardine run right here with us at the Umzimkulu Marina, in Port Sheptone, where Umzimkulu Adrenalin can get you out there. Catch a gamefish with Mydo Fishing Lures.