everything AI knows it learns from the information it has access too. so if it has access to the stuff we put online...and like every depiction of AI in media is that it becomes "sentient" and evil...maybe it will think it's supposed to be evil. like it's gathering inspo.
Feb 12, 2024
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10 years ago you had to call computational statistics "machine learning" to trick VCs without any technical knowledge to fund you. now you have to call it "AI". both are complete misnomers.
can computational statistics be used for evil? yes (mass surveillance, deep fakes, etc.)
can it be used for good? yes (improved weather forecasting, earlier disease diagnostics, etc.)
on the whole do economic incentives all-but-guarantee it will be used for evil more than good? yes.
does any of this have anything to do with cognition/intelligence/sentience/etc? not even a little
Feb 12, 2024
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- it can be used for good (e.g. improved research / increased access to life saving treatments / more affordable goods and services)
- it can be used for bad (e.g. killing people, depriving them of their livelihood)
- it will be used for both
- it will be perverted for money (think of the utopianism of the early internet versus the corporate cthulhu it is now)
- the toothpaste cannot be put back in the tube, but can be regulated, but probably won't be well enough because people
May 24, 2025
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I just saw an AI news report (disclosed as such, but), it was almost completely indiscernible from a real video. This is truly the last time in our lifetimes we’ll be able to know what‘s real and what‘s not when online.
Remind your friends, tell your parents, especially educate the older people in your lives to take everything they see online with a pinch of salt. This will be used to divide us further and manipulate us, etc. It already is, but it’s only getting more convincing.
May 25, 2025
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Rosalie, I've been waiting all evening
Possibly years I don't know
Counting the passing hours
Everything merges with the night
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