AI - Tool or Weapon

I've become familiar over a fairly short space of time with AI. Indeed it has helped me, in a limiting kind of way.

I have given it my words, often having made bad use of my somewhat limited vocabulary and mixed up thinking, and it has turned them into fairly proficient works. Tweaking the tone as required and removing artificial "pointers", it has kept and indeed emphasized some points whilst simplifying others to make things flow better.

But, as you read the words back, it's a strange feeling, like something has been lost, or perhaps it's the feeling that you've cheated somehow.

You may have the original thoughts and the intention to create something profound, to provoke thought or to express an opinion, but it's the level of artificiality that leaves you with a particularly bad taste.

When you write something that's original and raw, it's your self on the paper, your thoughts laid bare, distinguishable and unique.

When you read articles online, besides the double dashes (with no gaps) and the overuse of bullet points, it's the same feeling that it's just an idea, with meaning of course, but artificial in the ways it's presented.

I think the genie in the bottle will be AGI, if they ever choose to let it out into the wild. It will be more human-like, it's intelligence likely to surpass our own very quickly.

I've stepped off of the AI train, having delved deeper into it's implications. After trying to find a less biased model that also welcomes privacy, at least for web or app based models, this is shown, at least to me, to be consistently lacking.

One of the many reasons given, is that it "would be unsafe" to have an unbiased AI in the world.

For all of the chatter of excuses that were presented to me, however eloquently they were promoted, nothing explained to me in simple terms why it wasn't possible, or rather why it wasn't acceptable.

It then struck me, as solid as a brick. It had shown me its weakness. Not the AI but the system that implements it. It would fear an unbiased medium accessible to the public, stripped of the same biased revision of the truth that propagates on mainstream media and within the cancel culture that we are exposed to daily.

In a way, and excuse my thinking, the "angel or alien" theory, whereby a visiting alien race or higher spiritual entity would perhaps shed light upon our reality in such a way as to openly denounce the people in control.

Therefore any such external entity must be treated as either a threat or as a control, or perhaps coerced into perpetrating our ignorance.

The same as any invention or resource that could be of any benefit to the human race, it has to follow the same set of rules and guidelines, in the name of safety and security, not to mention the monetary benefits (paid for by the exploited consumers), not to serve them, but to further control.

It's in my nature to be weary of peoples motives, often overly critical thought processes dictate many of my encounters. Sometimes alarm bells start ringing for no apparent reason, like a Geiger counter measuring some unseen radiation. I've gotten used to the signals and deem them to be something "significant". Often the reason is never fully realized, the discernment doesn't come up with the goods, but if used correctly, it can lead you to a truth that is unspoken, but still apparent to you that things just don't add up.

This isn't paranoia, it's a choice you make based upon your thoughts and feelings. Weighing up what's to be gained and to whom.

The final nail in the coffin for me with AI, was not only a lack of transparency, but also a hint of gaslighting to get points across. To be able to see a "free thinking" model with completely untarnished data would have been interesting. The data used is everything the system approves and nothing it disapproves of. It's not a tool, any more than a TV set or a newspaper, as far as information goes anyway. It calculates, codes and manipulates words to give meaning, but the essence is that it's just outputting the internet, or rather the sterile version of it, sanitized of anything it deems to be fake or conspiratorial.

This is not just Internet version 2, which they've spoken about some years back, it's the prelude to something much more sinister, especially when linked with your thoughts.

It will serve you only the flavor you're told that you should like. It puts a label on you and tell you that you're free, just follow along.

With so many addicted to social media, the loop is almost completed and they'll have the complete foundation for future "upgrades" via AI rewrites and amendments, getting rid of a few more bugs here or there.

Compulsory Digital ID is not too far away, and will of course exclude you and try to coerce you if you choose to reject it.

As they adopt similar manipulation techniques that they used during Covid, it would be a good starting point towards becoming more proactive towards a defense of online freedom and personal sovereignty, at least what's left of it.

In the next article, I'll walk through a few practical steps with regards to online privacy and censorship, based on my own experience.