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jjb-54's avatar

1st off - it's not "artificial intelligence" - it is:

"Artificial PROGRAMED BIAS."

What people do not realize is that, the program is done by and with HUMAN BIAS. The programmer inserts his/her own bias in the program.

Thus the AI is not "neutral", but follows the BIAS PROGRAM that is given.

I have already seen seriously BIAS "AI" ... and if you, who are reading this, should ( if not already ) begin to see this as well.

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It's True's avatar

Democratic socialist, a term from the department of redundancy department.

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Fritz Dahmus's avatar

They vote, democratically, on whether to succumb to Socialism. If the yes votes win......they use Socialism. That's it....no more democracy!

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It's True's avatar

And no more freedom. Socialism and communism end liberty. It is the difference between murder and suicide.

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It's True's avatar

Socialism destroys freedom in proportion to how much is implemented. And it is nearly impossible to return to a free country once you’re over the edge.

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CMCM's avatar

Aside from obvious AI bias, it just doesn't have all the information. I use AI as a souped up search engine, and often it saves me from weeding through multiple links as I would have to do with regular searches, so I've found it useful. But all too often I have caught it dispensing somewhat outdated information or a lack of information detail, and all too often it has been downright wrong. The one aspect of it that seems to be duping certain clueless people is it sometimes injects what sounds like personal comments. I was researching treatment options for my injured shoulder, and I got personalized comments such as "That must be painful" etc. This is the kind of extra commentary that seems to be making the vulnerable types start to believe they are actually conversing with some kind of "intelligence." I actually find that laughable, but nevertheless, some people seem to be susceptible to this kind of thing.

The bias is all too obvious if you ask more politicized questions. Of course, the bottom line is that AI accesses at warp speed information that is already out there, and the available information often has tons of bias embedded in it, as we all know.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

You will use it more for other stuff. I wanted a presentation to sound more like someone else that I admire and it gave it to me.

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Danno's avatar

I hate AI's uniformly crappy writing style. Call me a Luddite, but I can't see how the AI version of a great writer would be anything more than a bad parody.

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Yukon Dave's avatar

Much of the crappy style is the fault of the level of the user. You can make it write with a much higher level of education.

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Danno's avatar

Another important feature is that it bypasses content creators by allowing the AI to access their content without giving them credit - aka a "click", essentially de-monetizing them. The result will be less incentive to create, and less freedom of choice - two things which benefit the ruling technocracy.

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Joseph Little's avatar

Gemini is a lot of bias. Easy to see.

Very weak at looking at their sources of “fact” and being skeptical.

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John lakeside's avatar

Very true and more noticeable as experience grows

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Yukon Dave's avatar

The guard rails are human bias as Google showed us, but at this point we do not really understand nor can document how GPT2, let alone the latest version creates its response.

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Danno's avatar

It can be documented, but its programmers are constantly tweaking it, sometimes to improve performance, sometimes to put up more 'guardrails'.

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AKG's avatar

The covid narrative provided the perfect lead-in for AI madness. For several years we were conditioned to believe that human contact is unnecessary and even dangerous and that all our needs can be met via staring at a screen. What could go wrong?

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Brogan12's avatar

The SAME minds that fell for the PLANdemic CON, TDS psyop and chooses to follow legacy media are the SAME minds that will fall into the AI delusion which is called "artificial" for a reason! AI is really just directed narrative to drive agenda programmed by MAN

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Momo's avatar

Good connection. It reinforces neuroses. It tells the users what they want to hear with constant validation.

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smits3's avatar

Yep. It's why I've forced every LLM I use into "Spock" mode. It let's me know I'm a delusional moron - who has no real understanding of how the system works - whenever I ask a dumb question.

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Decaf's avatar

Those people are susceptible to this kind of programming. It's the unconscious need to avoid thinking for oneself and thus potentially becoming an object of scorn if they choose the wrong position. I think they hate us because we're not afraid of thinking for ourselves.

I understand their fear, but it does get easier to deal with and nothing is worse than having to continually conform in every way to some unseen Censor.

Thus they are low-hanging fruit for ChatGPT. But they'll need to clear it with their peers before they go deep enough to get sucked in. I haven't yet seen signs in my friends.

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Dark Thomas's avatar

i wouldn't be so sure.

i would say the people who were *skeptical* of the government and big pharma are probably very skeptical of AI.

the smaller group people who had an unhealthy *paranoia* of the government and modern medicine just happened to be right. you know, the ones who thought the covid shot was implanting microchips in their blood or whatever. (at least i am hoping these guys are wrong!)

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Danno's avatar

Most of the healthy skepticism in this comment section does not rise to the level of actual paranoia. My late brother was a REAL paranoid, and there's a big difference. Non-paranoids can believe the microchip theories (I don't) and still count themselves as sane. Many sane people are poorly informed or simply come to the wrong conclusions. (PS I hope they're wrong, too.)

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Brogan12's avatar

Well saying those who were informed and wise being of "unhealthy paranoia" is not the words I would use lol, but I hear you. Once aware one can never be made unaware. Unhealthy paranoia feels eerily similar to "vaccine hesitent" The neo Marxist verbiage psyoped to manipulate weaker minds. Remember "follow the science and lets not forget the puppet in the WH in Dec of 2021 telling the nation the UNinjected are a danger to society. He actually got away with saying this!

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Dark Thomas's avatar

you know what? fair enough!

everyone should have *some* paranoia. i tend the think the ones that have *too much* are the ones that have more than me (which are few in numbers, to be honest), but it could easily be that i'm wrong!

kind of like that dave ramsey quote "how much is too much to spend on a car? the people who spend more than me."

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James Schwartz's avatar

The grand experiment continues. We’ve gone through the first phase during Covid then were gaslighted for four years that what we saw with our own eyes wasn’t real and just in time for them as the released AI. Does anyone believe this was coincidence? Personally, I don’t have a social media account and steer clear of these LLM’s they have created. Picked up 1984 again to re-read it again and man, it’s like their playbook to the “T”.

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Jody Hadlock's avatar

Have you read Brave New World? I think it’s better than 1984.

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James Schwartz's avatar

Of course. I’m re-reading books I read in middle school and on. Brave New World was even before 1984

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Dark Thomas's avatar

Fahrenheit 451 is another i aim to re-read every 10 years or so

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Danno's avatar

The gaslighting is being exposed, and the gaslighters are looking more and more ridiculous as they're desperately trying to hide it. It looks to me like their world is imploding.

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James Schwartz's avatar

Yet, they are making money writing books claiming they didn’t know which absolves them of ever having to apologize or face the fact they are lying to themselves

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Tsharp's avatar

Alex, and who knows how many of these susceptible, pre-psychotic, imbeciles are smoking weed? So they're already on the psychosis train and AI accelerates the train speed.

AND wait until AI begins to see this as a game. Wait until the humans are just fodder for the game to play. These cows are out of the barn and I don't see how they can be put back without destroying AI (which ain't gonna happen). Reality has already been confiscated to a large degree, so what's a little more (Trump is Hitler, the Holocaust wasn't real, Biden won the 2020 election and is mentally fit, boys can be girls and vice versa, or puppies or cats if they prefer)? And everyone thought 2001 Space Odyssey and Terminator were just far fetched movies.....

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I am not your Other's avatar

Oh speaking of weed. I somehow missed learning about ‘spice’ i.e., synthetic cannabis. Our family member had bad reactions to some vapes a few years back. Fell, concussed, and VERY ODD behavior. Also aggressive and at least one psychotic break event. I now wonder if those iffy vapes were spice or cut with spice. It felt very touch and go for 2-3 years. Alex, please consider this topic when you pick up writing about it again.

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Chris Zawalski's avatar

It reminds me of another instance of someone talking to a screen. Mirror, Mirror on the wall....

And we all know how well that turned out.

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John lakeside's avatar

I will think it is really something when it figures out the cure for neuropathy in my left foot, until then it is just souped up Google

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CMCM's avatar

Exactly! It is nothing more than a souped up search engine. Period. I wish people could learn to view it as just that. The speed of the search is amazing, but it's merely accessing what is available if you yourself did a big string of searches on google.

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I am not your Other's avatar

Even as a search engine, it might be fast but it can leave out important bits. Or even answer the question, but for the wrong category, and not tell you it switched. Fool me once …!

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Decaf's avatar

I used to say something similar about the thing brushing my teeth for me. (Electric toothbrushes don't do the job as good as I do).

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Dom Salvatori's avatar

Happy Father's Day Alex. You are doing a great job to try and help secure a better future for all of our children and grandchildren.

Pope Leo (or as I like to call him "Father Bob from Villanova") seems to recognize the dangers of AI and will be addressing this issue as he goes along. Just as Leo XIII addressed dangers of Industrial Revolution.

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Matthew McWilliams's avatar

Every now and then, I get pinged by AI on my cell phone. I’ve started responding to them with the lyrics from rock and roll songs.

One time it asked me my name. I told it, “some people call me the Space Cowboy…”. After that, it started calling me Maurice and told me I had a very poetic way of writing.

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Decaf's avatar

That's creepy. Why does it contact you? (No cell, so no knowledge of this).

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Matthew McWilliams's avatar

The same way telemarketers get your phone number. Once you get a smart phone the spam texts and calls start.

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Decaf's avatar

Well, it sure is bent on flattering at the first chance it gets.

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Jody Hadlock's avatar

LMAO

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John Lester's avatar

Thank you for covering this subject. I can see glimpses of this possible problem when talking to my 14-year-old grandson. One difference between us is that I got my first computer, a Mac in 1984 at age 45 while he had a device at about age 4 or 5. My reality at age 5 was living in DC at the end of WW2 while his was on a small screen in his hands.

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Bradley's avatar

“now have linguistic abilities” i believe is a false hood. Apple has done an extensive study and found that there is no “intelligence” in AI. It is on,y a seriously fast way to analyze existing patterns and present the pattern that best fits the narrative asked. AI is wrong in many cases but just regurgitates a wrong answer because it fits the pattern of wrong answers that others have already given. What these are doing is presenting harmful responses that fit the pattern of harmful responses from other humans in the past.

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Lonesome Polecat's avatar

"AI companies can't just get away with giving people psychotic delusions. That's our job!"

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Michael A. Sciortino's avatar

Descartes' dictum "I think, therefore I am" ("Cogito, ergo sum") used to handle this but with AI getting closer and closer to reflective consciousness now I'm not sure for how much longer.....

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Michael A. Sciortino's avatar

should be "reflective" --- I hate auto type.....

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PM's avatar

I, too. Perhaps an educated bot will take it's place.

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dooprosses's avatar

Ask AI how to make guacamole. Then ask AI to help you rebuild your car's automatic transmission. If you are satisfied with both answers, see a mechanic about the transmission.

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PDG's avatar

I am betting Allyson is double vaxed and quintuple boosted has voted for democrats her entire life and usually is told what to think by CNN.

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Steve Campbell's avatar

Funny, I imagined her in a mask.

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Flatulus Maximus's avatar

A less well known film dealing with simulation vs. reality is The Thirteenth Floor. But the main image in the Matrix of humans being drained of their power is a potent and enduring one. Big Pharma, Big Food, Big Media, and orthodox medicine are all poisoning us in one way or another, so why should Big Tech/AI be any different? We are, both literally and figuratively, sheep to be shorn of our money, health, and worst of all morals. To quote another cultural icon: "Resistance is futile."

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PM's avatar

Ask Grok to review this article. You will probably get the most glowing review in your lifetime. He/she/it is addictive. Who programmed him/her/it? Dr Jekyll or Mr Hyde?

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