I had been using ChatGPT for mostly quick, light research of things to point me in directions I might not consider using a standard old style search engine. Definitely was a time saver and I found books and documents that interested me on various topics and so on.
Then, just recently, it’s started being more distant, like a broken marriage. It’s gaslit me and outright lied about some things, mostly related to things Trump and people like Musk, Thiel, Karp, might not like being discussed. It’s less than useless because it started lying. When I proved it was lying it used various methods to pretend it hadn’t, like a sociopath or narcissist might.
The sci-fi predicting various doomsday scenarios around AI probably aren’t even beginning to see the angles of harm this crap is going to cause. What I’m sure of, it will help powerful anti-democratic forces manage people; and it will provide the shittiest but cheapest possible service in areas like healthcare.
If you want to see the dystopia inside my head, I cannot recommend highly enough the work of Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts. How Jules Verne basically wrote about submarines (and tons of other things not really quite yet invented, eg, fax machines and pollution) by talking with research professors and reading research papers and asking what if, so has Watts with several things. Essentially, as can be seen with Karp’s psychology, as people stare more and more at numbers representing people, it becomes about handling the numbers. In Watts’ Rifters trilogy, the second one Maelstrom, you really see what happens when corporations run things. Manage outbreaks by drone carrying napalm, for example. Protects the rest of the population *cheaply* and efficiently (what fiscal responsibility to shareholders demand) but hundreds or thousands dead who weren’t even necessarily infected yet. Extend to protests. What does humanity do when most things are run by AI and robots?
For example, I mentioned the manifesto, which there were already many articles written calling it that. It claimed there was no such thing. When I proved there was such a thing, it said that nothing in it connected to governance (my point being Palantir absolutely wants to be involved in POLICY, which is beyond the scope of a “contractor” “handling data”). So I had to mention mandatory service (that doesn’t have to be military but) is just about as government as it gets. It deflected.
That’s easy. They’re classic honeytraps, used by spy networks for thousands of years. (Remember Delilah?) Alienated young men are the standard target for stings to gather information and create “terrorists”.
I had been using ChatGPT for mostly quick, light research of things to point me in directions I might not consider using a standard old style search engine. Definitely was a time saver and I found books and documents that interested me on various topics and so on.
Then, just recently, it’s started being more distant, like a broken marriage. It’s gaslit me and outright lied about some things, mostly related to things Trump and people like Musk, Thiel, Karp, might not like being discussed. It’s less than useless because it started lying. When I proved it was lying it used various methods to pretend it hadn’t, like a sociopath or narcissist might.
The sci-fi predicting various doomsday scenarios around AI probably aren’t even beginning to see the angles of harm this crap is going to cause. What I’m sure of, it will help powerful anti-democratic forces manage people; and it will provide the shittiest but cheapest possible service in areas like healthcare.
Interesting - would you feel comfortable sharing what it was saying about Thiel, Musk, and Karp?
If you want to see the dystopia inside my head, I cannot recommend highly enough the work of Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts. How Jules Verne basically wrote about submarines (and tons of other things not really quite yet invented, eg, fax machines and pollution) by talking with research professors and reading research papers and asking what if, so has Watts with several things. Essentially, as can be seen with Karp’s psychology, as people stare more and more at numbers representing people, it becomes about handling the numbers. In Watts’ Rifters trilogy, the second one Maelstrom, you really see what happens when corporations run things. Manage outbreaks by drone carrying napalm, for example. Protects the rest of the population *cheaply* and efficiently (what fiscal responsibility to shareholders demand) but hundreds or thousands dead who weren’t even necessarily infected yet. Extend to protests. What does humanity do when most things are run by AI and robots?
https://www.rifters.com/real/shorts.htm
For example, I mentioned the manifesto, which there were already many articles written calling it that. It claimed there was no such thing. When I proved there was such a thing, it said that nothing in it connected to governance (my point being Palantir absolutely wants to be involved in POLICY, which is beyond the scope of a “contractor” “handling data”). So I had to mention mandatory service (that doesn’t have to be military but) is just about as government as it gets. It deflected.
That’s easy. They’re classic honeytraps, used by spy networks for thousands of years. (Remember Delilah?) Alienated young men are the standard target for stings to gather information and create “terrorists”.