Technology

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.

Funny that article is in futurism.com that is jam packed with tracking cookies and fingerprinting.

I don't use ChatGPT anymore as I've switched to another model but back when I did this wasn't something they were secretly doing. It's a feature. You can read the memories it has saved, delete the ones you don't want it to store and IIRC it can also be turned off.

I want the personalization...without Big Brother. My personal and local AI, should work solely for my interests. I have been using my local AI for creating an customized cookbook, making save editors, and right now, an restoration mod.

Never before have I had so much agency in my life. AI has great potential for self actualization, but corporations and government will be working to undermine it. Hopefully, everyday people will recognize that and make local AI the norm.

If you aren't paying cash, you pay with your privacy. If you are paying, enable privacy features (no improving their service, no blackbox memories).

They are also subject to GDPR and similar, so make use of your legal rights, if you have any.

Or ... shock, horror ... don't use them at all.

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.

It's no big deal, since we're not on the verge of a fascist dictatorship, I'm sure nobody will use it for repressive purposes; it's just a bit of personalized advertising, nothing important.

Who could have seen this coming?!

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.

"Sam Altman should be arrested" -Edward Snowden
(the whole auditorium clapped when he said that)

That creepy guy from school. The one who SA'ed your friend. He has all your personal, family and business secrets now. But he pinky promises he won't use it against you. Oh, you thought it was some altruistic super intelligence in a "cloud" that is there to help you. No, dude, thats Jesus, if you are into that stuff. This is just just another creep spying through your curtains. Always has been.

That's the real danger with LLM-AIs IMO, not the RAM price or energy consumption.

Mass control.

Use local AI for privacy.

Nothing new. Google, Meta, Microsoft, and (soon) Apple all probably have the same information in their databases. It is a little scary that it's all being fed to an AI though instead of being sold to advertisers

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.

Nothing to worry about, cattle!

I mean, people! Heh. Heh.

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.

I tell two lies for every truth I say to it. My profile is probably wildly wrong.

Not acting as shit for me. I don’t use that garbage.

Actual article— Study.

my profile:

he's a psychopath that gives no value to sentient life.