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.
I am not trying to be a contrarian here but how is it different from the socia media bubbles people create for themselves, google personalizing and optimizing results and well, at the basic the inherent bias in what information people seek out/accept
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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.
That’s not the business plan though.
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
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.
Welcome to the consumer zombie apocalypse.
Brainrot from shortform video content was already bad enough, now we just literally have a wave of ‘AI Psychosis’ episodes.
… You know, cyberpsychosis.
Good luck choombas, gonna be a wild fuckin ride!
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Alternatively:
Item #: SCP - 4C4C4D
Object Class:
EuclidKeterSecondary Object Class:
Apollyon
Special Containment Procedures:
At present time, no effective and potentially enactable containment procedures are known to exist.
Description:
SCP - 4C4C4D - 1 refers to an irrational and destructive desire to develop, implement and normalize the usage of LLM (Large Language Model) “artificial intelligences” (SCP - 4C4C4D - 2) throughout all of industrialized society, via the commitment and consumption of seemingly limitless amounts of material and financial resources.
SCP - 4C4C4D - 1 seems to be a cognitohazard in a variety of ways, most primarily in that it seems to spread most rapidly, and take hold most virulently, amongst the wealthy elites of highly capitalistic societies, who have disproportionate levels of control over the investment and econonomic decisions made withun those societies.
This directly represents an extremely serious threat to the livelihood of the human, and nonhuman residents of this planet, via the projected losses from opporunity cost, lack of (re)investment into vital infrastructure, risk of systemic financial contagion and monetary stability, as well as potential destruction of Earth’s biosphere, should SCP - 4C4C4D - 1 go wholly uncontained.
Less directly, SCP - 4C4C4D - 1 promotes the widespread usage and societal adoption of various kinds of SCP - 4C4C4D - 2.
SCP - 4C4C4D - 2 themselves more directly cause the following effects:
They undermine the operational integrity and cybersecurity of nearly any computer system they are integrated in to.
They cause various, serious, deleterious psychological effects within the general population, sometimes manifesting as acute psychosis in specific human users.
They disseminate so much mis and disinformation around human information networks that … either all Scranton Reality Anchors in use by the Foundation are experiencing some kind of inexplicable calibration drift… or SCP - 4C4C4D - 2’s are causing significant, semi-localized, semi-networked spikes in Hume levels, in the ranges of approximately 20 to 800 Humes.
SCP - 4C4C4D - 2’s are thus cognitohazards, and threats, in their own respect, independent of SCP - 4C4C4D - 1.
SCP - 4C4C4D - 2’s are so alluring or convenient to a wide swath of humanity that many people become addicted to using it, encourage others to use it, despite regular usage of an SCP - 4C4C4D - 2 instance directly causing significant regression of mental capabilities within the user, and/or preventing the formation and development of heretofore standard human mental capabilities, and as mentioned, occasionally causing acute psychosis or other clinically evaluable mental disorders within some human repeat-users.
For more information on the non-anomalous effects of the totality of SCP-4C4C4D, see Addendum 1.
For more information on the anomalous effects and apparent capabilities of the totality of SCP-4C4C4D, see Addendum 2.
Addendum 1:
[PDF attachment of a 168 page, detailed series of financial, econometric, sociological, psychological, and ecological impact, threat, and risk assement model results, metadata indicates this file has been revised with some frequency, and is now at its 23rd revision version]
Addendum 2:
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Addendum 3:
Prior to XxX, xX, 202X, SCP - 4C4C4D was classed as Object Class Euclid, and did not have any Secondary Object Class level.
This SCP was previously brought before the O5 Council for discussion, a number of times, and every time they reviewed the previous classification as sufficiently correct.
As of XxX, xX, 202X, SCP - 4C4C4D was brought before the O5 council again… and there has been no response.
Not another affirmation of the previous classification level… but no response, whatsoever.
Given their absence and lack of response on this, and a number of other SCPs submitted for review in the last several months… I have taken it upon myself to revise this document.
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!
