Okay, this is dangerously near a real topic.

Oh, we don't do that around here, but I'll allow it for once.

My wife asked me, hey, there's a place for text on the back of our Christmas card.

And we usually put something funny there, but I'm not feeling particularly funny right now.

And when I type it into Google, all the stuff that I get is bad.

And I said, oh, it can't be that bad. Wait, hang on. What are you, what are you typing into Google? Like a, like a funny thing to put on your Christmas card. Like a, like a mirthful message, a little bit of whimsy, not corny. That's maybe a little corny, you know. You're saying you're looking for ideas to put on the back of your christmas card you're looking for a tone would you say you're prompting a text

field to give you some ideas well it's funny you say prompting because that is precisely

where the problem starts oh when you type funny things to put onto your Christmas card

you get things that are both not funny and also not things that I would put on the

Christmas card. But the weird thing, and that's not, that's nothing new. Like there's a bunch of

hacks working on the internet and have been for many, many years. And that hallmarked before that.

Yeah. Well, no, actually, I think a lot of the, like, look, the hallmark people are directed and thoughtful at least. Yeah, okay, fair. Um, but the problem, it used to be that you'd click on the first site and then you'd get one set of things and you'd be like, no, this is bad and you click on the second one. And then you'd be like, okay, I want a Christmas card message that's not written by hacks and is actually funny. And then it would give you something that is a little bit different.

So they were all the same.

Like the top five results all had the exact same crap in him.

And it was all like, hey, I hope your Christmas sleighs and SLEI-G-H-S for some reason, or I hope you get as lit as your tree, or, like, they're

terrible, really, really bad, right?

Not funny, not clever, just hacky and awful.

So then I was like, I think that all of these are written by AI, so I went to the AI, and

it's like, look, this is a chicken or egg situation. Because it could have been that the AI just looked at all of the, the things that were written by AI on the top Christmas card site pages and been like, oh, okay, here we go. Or it could have been that the person at Shutterfly that was writing the, hey, you don't know what to put on your Christmas card, here's some funny ideas, just typed into Google Gemini. Hey, I want some funny stuff to put on the Christmas card in article form that I can put on Shutterfly's website. And then it just spat that out because the lists were the same when I asked Gemini for the same thing. And I haven't engaged with this stuff in a little bit, the AI stuff in a minute.

I kind of like spent most of 2025 just reinforcing my opinions that it's kind of shit and

moving on.

And Gina was like, this is the type of thing most people just ask AI for.

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