The most disheartening part of the ‘AI Revolution’ is how many people I see treating it like a fact checker and that it most certainly is not.
It leaves them very susceptible to misinformation unintentional or more likely every day, intentional. It is a tool that has the potential to sway public opinion based on the whims of it’s creator.
Grok may be an early example but I give it years at most before every AI has selective truth.
Years? They already are selective Truth, every single one.
This has been the most depressing thing about the Grok situation, for me.
We had a brazen undeniable example of an LLM advancing an agenda.
And the takeaway for some was “Wow, AI can have an agenda baked into it!”
Not “Wow, all AI has an agenda baked into it, whether or not I’m aware of it?”
There are still a depressing number of people who will insist that AI is “just a tool”, “like a hammer”, and basically politically inert until someone decides to misuse it.
It’s like they haven’t been watching big tech slowly encode their antisocial supremacist ideologies into products for the past 30 years.
And I’m not talking about the CEOs putting their thumbs on the scale about what content goes in or how it’s monetized.
I mean the very existence of e.g. a “gig work” app implies structuring society in a certain way. Likewise, the mechanics of training, deploying, and accessing generative AI have implications for how society is structured. Making them is a political act. It is not just up to how they’re used!
Oh boy. So… that was a rant. 😅
Yes the more agency you remove from workers including now so-called “knowledge workers” the more you reduce us to merely conscious linkages in an automated system that can act on and through us.
As the power to bias the models to match the aims of the owners improves, the more that showing any off-script anti automation tendencies will be punished.
Cognitive worker to cog in the machine, to put it pithy.
No coincidence this has also been the strategy of the New Right since the late 70s. Prefigurative traditionalism: an imagined past projected into the future as their ideal vision of society.
What’s absolutely batshit is that the traditionalists who once claimed secular humanism would lead to the downfall of society, have now merged with transhumanists who have cultivated their own victimhood by using the claim that any criticism is simply fearing/standing in the way of progress… While partnering with people who reject any evidence based decision making, and believe law and policy should rely solely on commands given by ancient religious texts.
As long as people are willing to buy their victimhood narratives, they wield the fucking dumbest yet impenetrable shield of hypocrisy.
TLDR: stop giving these stupid assholes any credit when they cry victim.
I want AI and robots to replace us doing all the work we find boring and laborious, so we can focus on creating stuff we want to. And no, the fact that AI can create stuff too doesn’t invalidate it, people like human stuff.
The ruling class will exterminate anyone they cannot make a profit off of. They are doing it already.
Hell that’s what poverty is. Punishment for going off the script that dictates you slot yourself into a system where all your excess value goes to the owners
When they say “AI will replace us”, it’s not a warning, it is a threat.
Good thing the AI we have now can only effectively replace middle management and F-tier developers. Once they are gone the drive for better AI will evaporate!
