Facebook had to stalk your clicks to build a psychological profile. OpenAI figured out people will volunteer their fears, relationships, medical worries, and political beliefs if the surveillance machine responds with: »That sounds really difficult.« The therapist is a database, and the waiting room is a data center.
For now, I can avoid AI because it’s easy to spot. Even product website AI chatbots are poor imitations of people. (Honestly, the mental acrobatics people must go through to talk to one of these things as a trusted advisor baffles me. It’s a fucking machine, you’re talking to a box, a piece of software. Stop anthropomorphizing the damn things. But, maybe that’s just me.)
In the near future I expect for anything important to me (namely, doctors, lawyers, friends, advisors), I’ll only trust face to face conversations--but then, no more so than I ever have. Because, they won’t perfect androids in my lifetime.
The threat is that for paid positions, like doctors, etc., the option for face to face may become too expensive for anyone but the rich. Because, you know the rich won’t take digital advice. Hell, they’re trying to replace teachers in public schools with machines, right now. The rich never let their kids have phones when they’re young. Or, at least not the parents who give a fuck about their kids, which seems not many filthy rich do. Let alone will they let some machine teach them in school.
If you’re a billionaire who enjoys raping children on an island or a ranch, and then you have your own children, it can’t be easy to see them as humans separate from yourself with their own thoughts and feelings.
Funny that article is in futurism.com that is jam packed with tracking cookies and fingerprinting.
Just a random sidenote to get lost in the Internet:
“Chat GPT” said out loud in French (chat, jais pété) means “cat I farted.”
You’re welcome.
Not acting as shit for me. I don’t use that garbage.
Social media were already doing this with more relatively more primitive tech. The advent of social media mass control got me thinking. All the political and social strife. It’s only the beginning. The 20th century was marked by conventional warfare and terrifying new weapons.
The 21st century conflict is going to be something we’ve never seen before. Not unlike 20th century global conflict ushering in new forms of weaponry. We don’t know what the nuclear bomb of the 21st century will be. It will likely be something like this. Maybe we won’t be fearing an atomic bomb. Maybe people themselves will turn into violent mobs or something. What terrifying things will come out of using the world as live psychological experiments with zero ethics.
my profile:
he’s a psychopath that gives no value to sentient life.
I really just ask chatgpt why my code doesn’t work. Sadly, searches are getting worse intentionally. So, it’s either use their stupid AI, or spend hours looking for forums that used to pop up after 5 minutes of a google searching.
Kagi is with every penny
What is magic? I’ve never heard of it. I moved to duckduckgo a while back, but even that kinda sucks now.
Kagi is just a search engine without ads and works.surprisingly well; unlike ddg. Its 5 bucks a month.
You could get even better results with searxng if you have the setup and patience for it. I went kagi even as an avid self hoster because I travel a lot and tailscale would slaughter my battery if I left it on non stop
Jokes on everyone but me! I am using claude local /s
Who could have seen this coming?!
I think, all of them do. People trust(-ed) these AI agents even more when they have become a new thing. The challenge now also is getting rid of the addiction.
Nothing to worry about, cattle!
I mean, people! Heh. Heh.
Beware the manmade idol, I say.
