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originally posted by: FlyInTheOintment
Hi ATS,
I've just been watching a bit of Russell Brand's reporting on his members only Locals community space, and he was talking about companies such as Logically AI and Track F. - both of which have been leveraged by political parties (Democrats) to sway opinions around elections & corporate actions, as well as support for the war & dampening down conversations regarding conspiratorial vaccine & plandemic matters.
What our leaders have realised is that by launching an army of highly intelligent Bots via a company such as Logically AI, they are able to enter the communal spaces online which have evolved organically without government oversight or interference, they are able to invade those spaces & sway the conversations in the direction they want for them to go. AI is now so powerful that it is highly possible that most, if not nearly all persons who use the net unassumedly with not a cynical bone in their body, will ultimately believe that these AI bots are real people, having real conversations, expressing real & apparently reasonable opinions on critical matters. By this strategy, companies such as Logically AI (under the direction of their paymasters) will be able to bend public opinion in the direction that they wish for it to bend.
What this means is, in essence, we can no longer trust even the organic spaces which have developed online - I suppose Twitter/X will be highly targeted in this manner, as will Rumble, and Telegram - basically any space where free speech is openly supported, they will want to get their greasy little fingers in, in order to take bites out of dissenting voices & suppress their valid opinions by shouting/reasoning them down in ways that seem to make sense to the casual viewer of the developing conversation.
In combination with the raft of new censorship laws which are being brought out in many Western nations -the UK, Ireland, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand & Australia, and so on - this army of AI-controlled Bots will be able to squash open debate & push public opinion in certain directions according to their whims. They will be able to influence elections, they will be able to move the markets, they will be able to prevent certain items of information from ever getting out into public arenas where it can be openly & critically assessed. Unfortunately the majority of casual net users are unlikely to be savvy enough to take precautions against engagement with these powerful & seemingly intelligent AI controlled Bots, likely engaging them as though they are real humans sitting behind a screen somewhere.
What this means in conclusion, is that from THIS POINT ON, we will have to be very, very careful to analyse our activities & interactions through the constant filter of "..this person is quite possibly a Bot." Sadly, if they are not capable of holding a graduate-level conversation, then it's certainly possible that they are a very intelligent pretend person, a Bot. So again, we have to be very, very careful - we're hunting 'WabBots'.
And they are hunting us, and our opinions too.
The only thing I can hope for is that people such as Elon Musk will take a confrontational approach to this problem, basically by preparing Bots of our own which can be unleashed into those shared spaces which will utilise AI in a positive way, by reasoning strongly against Bot-manufactured opinions which have censorship or manipulation at their core. Surely Bots which can be programmed for evil, can also be programmed for good? We need white hat activist billionaires to enter the communal space with a vengeance, fighting back against the censorship & manipulation, using the enemy's own tools to defeat them. Come on Elon, you can do this!
In the meantime, trust no-one. Tread lightly, hit hard, run fast.
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
We have no saviors here Fly,
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
a reply to: FlyInTheOintment
Sound thread Fly, that is up until you said Elon.
We have no saviors here Fly, only we ourselves can become people who can avoid this consciousness invasion. And that's what it is, a consciousness invasion , the taking over of our thought processes and making them their own.
It's not new Fly as surely as you know, it's been going on almost from the inception of human society, right? It's just that now, it is hitting an ultimate level. That slogan ''free yourself'' is the one that applies here, not Elon or someone else will save us.
originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: NightFlight
Artificial intelligence is not real intelligence.
What most people talk about now when they talk about AI is language models, like ChatGPT.
AI language models, like all AI systems, need to learn before they can give some output, and they do not have an idea of the quality or veracity of the input, so if they are fed Communist information they will behave like a Communist, but if the same system is fed Fascist information it will behave like a Fascist.
originally posted by: ArMaP
a reply to: NightFlight
Artificial intelligence is not real intelligence.
What most people talk about now when they talk about AI is language models, like ChatGPT.
AI language models, like all AI systems, need to learn before they can give some output, and they do not have an idea of the quality or veracity of the input, so if they are fed Communist information they will behave like a Communist, but if the same system is fed Fascist information it will behave like a Fascist.
originally posted by: BingoMcGoof
a reply to: Lovelyldy
WOW, a media bottom feeder with tds, picking on little Fly oh my gracious. Did you not notice the first words I posted in that reply? Here, I'll quote if for you. ''Sound thread Fly''. If you can't handle even a little discussion, why do you even bother with your vengeful whines.