This is the Generative AI Administration

It's made up of people who think the appearance of knowledge, skill and ability is commensurate with, even superior to, actually having knowledge, skill and ability. Meanwhile they produce incorrect, nonsensical and harmful words, works and outputs.

They wear suits, stand at podiums, sit in front of cameras and talk to Congress, the media and the public to look the part. They give each other titles and responsibilities they are not qualified for nor capable of performing. They incorrectly cast the most vaguely applicable experience as relevant.

They spout gibberish, are factually incorrect more often than not, produce work that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny, violates rules and laws and is ultimately useless, if not outright harmful.

They cite laws and studies that don't exist or actually say the opposite of what is claimed. They make conclusions that aren't based in any existing, real evidence.

Their every attempt at demonstrating the quality of their work is a lie or exaggeration.

They have no actual understanding of the depth and breadth of experience, expertise, contextual awareness and intent that goes into actually doing the work they are LARPing.

They think that to govern is to control based on their whims. They think to lead is to order whatever they want be done.

They cast wanting highly skilled work to be done by experts as gatekeeping and elitist. They push the narrative that skill, intelligence and ability is overrated and that opinion is as good as fact.

There's no quality control in their work. As long as something appears to meet the requirements, even if that appearance is merely cosmetic, they consider it to have actually fulfilled the requirement.

Meanwhile, everything that requires expertise, experience and ability is suffering from the lack. We're all paying the price.

This was originally posted as a series on Bluesky and Threads. Collected here for ease of reading and because social media is not an archive.