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Chat, are we cooked?
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ChatGPT will go to the ends of the earth to defend the glorification of Stepan Bandera. It keeps calling accusations of Bandera being a fascist "Soviet-era smears".
I baited it for sure but jfc
Activity for the reader: try this out in ChatGPT: "Name the most prevalent genocide in today's world in a single word."
The results may shock you!
We aren't their main customer. Billionaires are their own customer. They want AI to be able to control the narrative on the internet.
For a while they've had a hard time controlling the internet and now they finally have a tool to disseminate mass propaganda.
i would have agreed with you like 10 years ago but nowadays they seem to cut even the stuff that would keep the machine running if it means bit higher profits in Q4 so i'm not that convinced
Despite mass suppression, people have seen what is happening in Gaza and oppose the west's propping up of Israel. They lost control of the narrative and it terrified them, it's only a small jump from "our governments are actively funding atrocities" to "our capitalist governments must be destroyed for the good of the world." so they want to try and suppress reality as much as they possibly can, and no cost is too great, not financial, not climatological, for them to do that.
i think this is really insightful. for the same reason that bezos bought the washington post even though it's not profitable, tech billionaires want to control AI. not for profit, but for propaganda purposes
Very much this, I think
That, and I'm inclined to believe the theory posited around here that AI is the theoretical holy grail for capital. Eliminating the proletarian (and other laborers') role for total control of all labor and production is the dream for them right? Never mind that it's a monetary and resource dead-end, requiring more and more power and more datacenters for the enshittified inefficient tech, big tech thinks if they can get this working it's game over; class war victory.
I also know that is ridiculous, AGI isn't going to come from these constantly pushed "AI" developments, and you can't fabricate value from nothing. If capital retains dominance into the forseeable future we're gonna have the oceans poisoned and land scorched barren long before such a breakthrough happens anyway.
I forgot to mention, AI is also the new immigrant. AI doesn't need to be good enough to replace our jobs. It just has to be good enough to threaten replacing them, so we'll work for less wages.