The Purists Slash Haters Are Mad At The Wrong Machine: You’ve Been Using AI for Years Congrats!

 Man, there are a whole lot of unhappy folks out there. Half of them act like time marching forward is some kind of personal insult. Technology keeps dragging the world ahead whether anyone likes it or not — the real mystery is where it’s taking us.

I’ve been doing pop art since that Dee Snider piece blew up back in 2019 — that’s the first one I can officially document. (Went viral overnight)

Before that, I was pitching pop‑art concepts to the NFL. They politely told me the world wasn’t ready for my pigskin flavor. Funny thing: the very next year they rolled out artwork that looked suspiciously familiar. Coincidence? Sure… if you believe in fairy tales.

Now I’m catching flak because my style leans into AI. I keep telling people I’m just a Photoshop lifer. I was out here doing my thing long before the AI‑haters even existed. And honestly — if you haters knew you’ve been using artificial intelligence way before “AI” became a headline, maybe you’d be a happier camper!

 Everyday AI people used long before they realized it.

Spellcheck — Every time Word or Gmail fixed your typo, that was early AI quietly cleaning up your mess.

Autocomplete — Your phone finishing your sentence wasn’t magic; it was predictive language modeling.

Search engines — Google’s ranking, suggestions, and “Did you mean…?” have used machine learning for decades.

Photo filters — Face smoothing, red‑eye removal, auto‑contrast — all powered by early computer vision.

GPS navigation — Rerouting, traffic prediction, ETA calculation — that’s AI crunching real‑time data.

Fraud detection — Banks flagging suspicious charges? Machine learning.

Streaming recommendations — Netflix, Spotify, YouTube — all AI deciding what you “might like next.”

Voice assistants — Siri and Alexa didn’t just wake up one day; they’re built on decades of speech recognition AI.

Digital cameras — Autofocus, face detection, scene optimization — all early AI baked into your pocket.

So yeah — people have been swimming in AI for years without even noticing. Meanwhile, I was grinding in Photoshop before half you critics even knew what a layer mask was.

What’s a photo dude supposed to do — stop evolving just to make you Haters feel safe?

And haters — the “purists” — if you need something to be mad at, go hate on electric cars or cars without drivers. I might even join you on that! But hating on me for using tools I've used for years? That’s just ridiculous!

Gary England