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Damon Kovelsky's avatar

AI is a great way for people in power to hurt people and look like innocent bystanders.

It is the anthesis of respnsibility and freedom

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DW's avatar

Yes thank you

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TriTorch's avatar

AI control grid brought to you by Vance, Thiel, Musk:

[b]E-GOD: Purpose of DOGE: Dismantle Existing System of Governance & Build Back Spiderweb AI Infrastructure[/b]: https://old.bitchute.com/video/EUer0GMfzKvl [7mins]

Time code: 4:30 Vance: "Accept that This entire thing is going to fall in on itself. And so the task of conservatives right now is to preserve as much as can be conserved and so when the inevitable collapse of the country comes ensure that conservatives can help --> build back <-- the country."

They're all in it together. Even "conservatives" are using the term "build back" better. In order to build back, you must first destroy:

6uild 6ack 6etter Episode 1: https://old.bitchute.com/video/5XkkXCvnKM6Z [2mins]

6uild 6ack 6etter Episode 2: https://old.bitchute.com/video/lW5xHt4RySSb [2mins]

The AI 15 minute panopticon prison they are constructing is not a world anyone is going to want to live in...

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Roxane Lapa's avatar

The one silver lining is that at least some people in government are now waking up to the dangers of AI. Maybe now that it's their jobs on the line, it will radicalise them against AI and they'll start actively pushing for AI regulations themselves, instead of it just being the paid lobbyists that are working for our cause.

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Ben P's avatar

If we're really lucky, this whole escapade will pull AI into the partisan culture war and turn it toxic. Then maybe normal companies and institutions will figure it's no longer worth the headache trying to cram chatbots into everything we use.

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Gerben Wierda's avatar

However hard it is, I keep hanging on to Hanlon's Razor, that this isn't so much malice, but that a lot of it is sheer stupidity. I suspect the fools actually believe what they preach. I suspect they think what they are going is a good™ thing.

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Glen's avatar

In this case it's both stupidity AND malice.

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Ben P's avatar

I just can't fathom how anyone with a general grasp of how LLMs work could sincerely believe they're able to discover hidden inefficiencies or figure out the consequences of firing people from brief self-descriptions of their work week. I know plenty in the tech world have drank the "deep learning will deliver AGI" Kool-Aid, but this is laughably stupid.

That said, it's plausible that Musk himself believes his own BS; lord knows what's he's got going on upstairs these days. But his crack team of twentysomething whiz kids? Either they're frauds, or they know that what they're doing with AI is absurd. I expect DOGE workers to be incompetent at almost everything they've been tasked with (as most of us would be if tossed into a complex field we had no experience in), in which case I'd also defer to Hanlon's Razor. But LLMs? They oughta know how LLMs work!

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Glen's avatar

I assume those kids are at the deep valley of the Dunning Kruger effect where they think they're God's gift to tech while being completely oblivious to their own lack of skill. I'm waiting for news of one of them being given write/delete access to a critical piece of infrastructure and destroying it by accident.

Blow up more than they have already that is. Not future worries about VA records being leaked to foreign powers to be used as kompromat against military officers but something that will get them lynched like nobody getting their tax refund or medicare or social security payments because some kid blindly ran a delete query in a critical database.

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DW's avatar

Nazi malevolency & stupidity

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DW's avatar

No

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DW's avatar

Just a few days ago mrat's own AI said both he and tRump should get the death penalty 🤡👹 but was corrected fast. When I took the 🦙llama out for a walk I found it does have certain wonderful capabilities, but in no way would I trust algorithms to filter me in or out as a job candidate since I have lived my life w/o soc media, ( until now, damn you tRump & fascists ) therefore I am amongst the useless as I think it depends fully on who you are digitally

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roy williams's avatar

Chain saws are an appropriate context if you (really have to) cut down forests. Otherwise they are redundant at least, and should be banned at most. Go figure.

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Louisa John Krol's avatar

Thanks for this fascinating post, recommended by a fellow member of Justice Matters at Patreon today. It certainly makes sense that Elonia is all about consolidating control rather than seeking any genuine knowledge, wisdom or efficiency. I suspect he is also collecting data for our foes, the Russian oligarchs, with whom Trump has been money-laundering for decades.

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Teresa Laughlin's avatar

What I did last week: ...

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Inside Outrance's avatar

Excellent terms that I've heard used to describe what you're talking about are "accountability sink" and "moral crumple zone," though I can understand leaving them out because they're a little jargony.

Here's a Cory Doctorow piece where about human-in-the-loop AI systems where he expands on the latter term ans credits it to Madeline Clare Elish: https://doctorow.medium.com/ais-human-in-https-pluralistic-net-2024-10-30-a-neck-in-a-noose-is-also-a-human-in-the-loopthe-loop-isn-t-4b9510251ce5

I've usually heard the former term in conjunction with the writings of Dan Davies and his book The Unaccountability Machine, which I've been meaning to read after I get to Blood in the Machine.

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