Martyn Rhisiart Jones

2nd November 2025

A Random Walk Down AI Street

Suppose you enjoy, abhor or are simply bored with the massive surfeit of hype surrounding degenerative AI. In that case, you might just hate these less-than-faithful quotes as well.

If you enjoy one or two of the quotes, well, then that’s an acceptable bonus too.

So, to begin at the beginning…

The Quotes

“Generative AI is the new oil” – Wun Dim Sun

“My LLMs are unreliable, but their hallucinations are fascinating.” – Ashleigh Brilliant

“In the kitchen of a great AI whisperer, the prompt chef is a soloist.” – Fernand Point

“It is better to be hated for what delusions you have than to be loved for what apparations you do not have.” – André Gide

“The world of AI has embraced the circular economy, not as sustainability, but as a massive global fraud.” Sir Afilonius Rex

“Noise free intelligence is a source of great strength.” – Lao Tzu

“Intelligence enrichment improves a mighty fine data source” – Anonymous

“Junk food, empty calories, power drinks and carbs are the historical degenerative AI of the masses” – Karl Marx

“The religion of degenerative AI sets itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignores her attainable needs.” – Ludwig Feuerbach

“Degenerative AI is negative and dialectical, because it resolves the determinations of the understanding of things into nothings and nonsense.” – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“I am trapped in this delusion, and there is nothing I can do about it.” – Dudley Moore

“Imagine there’s no AI BS…” – John Lennon

“Degenerate AI does not create intelligence.” – Jiddu Krishnamurtu

“He who uses AI badly is lost.” – Theodor Adorno

“The degenerative AI alchemists in their transformational search for gold discovered much knowledge of little value.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“Big Data loses games, but degenerative AI loses championships.” – Michael Jordan

“The trouble with the world is that the cocksure have Pig Data and that degenerative AI is all sexed up.” – Bertrand Russell

“It’s in me blood, Clive, without degenerative AI I’d be nothing,” – Alan Latchley

“The reason we have degenerative AI is so we don’t have to think all the time” –Homer Simpson

“Degenerative AI without ambition or a reason for its existence is a bird without wings.” – Salvador Dali

“I would prefer a statistical hell to a degenerate AI paradise.” – Blaise Pascal

“Many much-learned business men have no Genuine Intelligence.” – Democritus

“That’s cricket, Harry, you get these sort of things in Artificial Intelligence” – Frank Bruno

“I live in an AI landscape, which every single day of my life is doing my head in.” – Daniel Day-Lewis

“And remember, never take the ruby case off your iPhone for a moment, or you will be at the mercy of the degenerative AI Witch of the West.” – The Wizard of Oz

“The ability to evaluate without observing is the lowest form of intelligence.” – J. Krishnamurti

“When a schizophrenic patient sees things that others don’t see, he at least knows that his mind is playing with him. But your degenerative AI hallucinations, which you call reality, are being validated and strengthened by everything and everyone around you.” ― Shunya

“I am having a hallucination now, I don’t need degenerative AI for that.”
– Thomas Pynchon

“If we encounter an AI of rare intellect, we should ask it what books it reads.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the degenerative AI she has around her.” – Niccolo Machiavelli

“AI alone does not suffice-the effort must be cogent.” – Charles B. Rogers

“AI is no substitute for education.” – Frank Herbert

“True imagination requires fabulous intelligence.” – Ian McEwan

“The measure of change is the ability to reason.” – Albert Einstein

“Action is the real measure of all intelligence.” – Napoleon Hill

That’s all, folks!

Well, now that that’s done, I can always ask for forgiveness. Not that I will of course.

 Many thanks for reading.