the “weird cults” are now in your pocket and with you 24/7. I would argue that the negative effect of LLMs (and their masters) on society potentially runs much deeper than your comment suggests.
This is almost word for word what’s been said about every new technology or social trend for my entire life. “This new thing is worse than everything that has ever come before and the Apocalypse is nigh.”
Sorry. After hearing this over and over and over and over again all my life I just don’t take this kind of moral panic seriously.
You know the Boy Who Cried Wolf? That’s basically the situation we’re in, the boy has been crying wolf (technology is going to kill us!) for decades and decades with every new invention. Now you don’t believe the boy anymore.
But the wolf still comes at the end of the story. Don’t forget that.
I think another thing you’re missing is that while advances in technology historically didn’t bring about the apocalypse, they have on numerous occasions been the catalyst for major social upheaval and disaster. Society and culture has to adjust to these kinds of changes to what is possible, and that is not always pretty.
I’m not “missing” anything, Sparky. I’ve lived through quite a few such changes, and it wasn’t pretty.
I just don’t see anything special about this particular one that renders the moral hue and cry. Like I said at the start: there’s plenty of real reasons to target AI. People deluding themselves into a cult is not one of them, since people have been deluding themselves into cults even before the historical record, likely.
The difference with these AI cults is that the AI is essentially standing in for the cult leader. A cult leader that can speak to millions simultaneously in one-on-one personal conversations is something new that is going to have real world consequences.
Sure you don’t have to, my point was merely with the right browser and some extensions you can just browse the web. no paywalls, data stealing privacy banners, hundreds of tracking cookies and so forth, no haggling with acceptance dialogs, just use the Internet.
Weird cults victimizing people are literally prehistoric in age. It’s a bit “hue and cry”-ish to go into a moral panic over “AI cults”.
There’s plenty to criticize in modern “AI” (beginning with “it doesn’t work”). Let’s not make stupid reasons up!
the “weird cults” are now in your pocket and with you 24/7. I would argue that the negative effect of LLMs (and their masters) on society potentially runs much deeper than your comment suggests.
This is almost word for word what’s been said about every new technology or social trend for my entire life. “This new thing is worse than everything that has ever come before and the Apocalypse is nigh.”
Sorry. After hearing this over and over and over and over again all my life I just don’t take this kind of moral panic seriously.
You know the Boy Who Cried Wolf? That’s basically the situation we’re in, the boy has been crying wolf (technology is going to kill us!) for decades and decades with every new invention. Now you don’t believe the boy anymore.
But the wolf still comes at the end of the story. Don’t forget that.
“The story” is the key part of this, however.
I think another thing you’re missing is that while advances in technology historically didn’t bring about the apocalypse, they have on numerous occasions been the catalyst for major social upheaval and disaster. Society and culture has to adjust to these kinds of changes to what is possible, and that is not always pretty.
I’m not “missing” anything, Sparky. I’ve lived through quite a few such changes, and it wasn’t pretty.
I just don’t see anything special about this particular one that renders the moral hue and cry. Like I said at the start: there’s plenty of real reasons to target AI. People deluding themselves into a cult is not one of them, since people have been deluding themselves into cults even before the historical record, likely.
The difference with these AI cults is that the AI is essentially standing in for the cult leader. A cult leader that can speak to millions simultaneously in one-on-one personal conversations is something new that is going to have real world consequences.
[greater than the] sum of the parts, my friend.
Did you read the article?
The paywalled one?
firefox and the noscript extension should get you the article. consider running noscript anyway for internet hygiene reasons.
Or I can ignore walled gardens. Which is what I do.
And then you wade into discussions about articles you claim to ignore. I read it just fine without paywall notifications, so joke’s on you I guess?
What does this look like to you, Sparky?:
Same as before. Looks like you insist on being part of a conversation you don’t care to read up on.
The name calling is a nice touch, that’s all I needed to just block you.
Rolling stone is selective about who they show the paywall to. I didn’t get it but my gf did. No idea why.
I find it much more satisfying to break into those walled gardens than to concede to their demand of either giving up my data or not getting it.
You be you. I’ll be me. I find “endless struggle” a boringly tedious and draining way to live. Not for me to choose for you. Nor vice versa.
Sure you don’t have to, my point was merely with the right browser and some extensions you can just browse the web. no paywalls, data stealing privacy banners, hundreds of tracking cookies and so forth, no haggling with acceptance dialogs, just use the Internet.
But as you said, you do you