• unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2 months

    The obvious end goal of the push for LLMs. Centralized control over information that can be used to bend public opinion and trends.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 months

        The idea of literally re-writing history in real-time seemed absurd back when I first read it,maybe like 15 years ago.

        Nowadays, between media conglomerates (social and legacy), search engines, and now LLMs (as the next tier), being owned by a handful of extremely rich people who have shown time and time again that they want nothing more than to exert control over people…it’s entirely possible.

        Easy, even.

        Federated platforms aren’t immune to it. Bot army’s swarm reddit and lemmy alike, just as they do mastodon and X. Federated platforms have a bit more capability and interest to fight it, but it really is an arms race at this point.

        And also spez (fuck u/spez) would love to suck Dons tiny scarred and pruney cock. If only spez weren’t like 30+ years too old for him.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 months

      the closed-source version of the internet.

    • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2 months

      The biggest end goal is scanning everyone’s data that we will only be able to store in the cloud because they bought all the storage and memory. This is useful far beyond advertising.

      But yes, skewing public opinion is part 2 of that.

      The spy agencies finally got their mind control except this is America so it’s also privatized.

      • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2 months

        Running everything said or done, online or off, all connected to people and their face and ID, through AI threat detection, to make secret social scores to be used against us I would add. Age checks are to further that purpose, as are the masterbaitorbases of the UK and shitholy red states in the US.

        • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2 months

          They will then allow the AI to decide on deploying assassin drones on unfavorable people and to run propaganda.

          • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2 months

            Then blame the droned undesirables’ death on their opponents and scapegoats and drone them. Then steal their assets after, that goes without saying.

            • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
              2 months

              Basically automated culling of undesirable people for the most arbitary things, fake law and order appearance, but no free elections, no chance of rebellion or improvements, everyone forced to act happy and suffer whatever is inflicted on them, as our overlords attempt to replace us altogether.

    • errer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      “What a great observation! Now why don’t we both kick back with a nice relaxing glass of Coke Zero?”

    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2 months

      The article is about using external tools in addition to an LLM. This has nothing to do with “centralized information” and is something that search engines have been doing for years.

    • crystalmerchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      Always has been. Not so different from giant physical billboards everywhere in the early 20th century

  • Lexam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    I can see how you may find this news upsetting, I suggest you talk to your doctor about Lexapro to help you through these times.

    • Whostosay@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2 months

      Would you like to know more about how Lexapro is already being shipped to your home?

    • hakunawazo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 months

      You are totally right, nobody is surprised about this. But everybody loves a Snickers, because You’re Not You When You’re Hungry.
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  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 months

    We need an amplified version of the surprised Pikachu meme for some of these AI news. Literally everyone saw it coming. Especially AI bros who lied through their teeth when they claimed it wouldn‘t.

    • jtrek@startrek.websiteEnglish
      2 months

      Literally everyone saw it coming.

      Many people aren’t paying attention. Many people are like pathologically gullible.

      The average person just… if you’re smart and capable, imagine being drunk. Being drunk all the time. That’s the baseline. Myopic, impatient, emotional.

      Maybe if we had better education and less capitalist hellscape people could be a little better.

      • mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2 months

        Oh yeah this is a very nice way to get it across. I know a couple smart people who are always saying shit like “people can’t be that stupid” and I tell them they don’t understand how smart they are. Homie thinks he’s 20% smarter than like 65% of people, its probably more like 200% smarter than 80% of people

  • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    2 months

    Well no fucking shit Sherlock, they are peddling it like a drug “reality is harsh here’s something to help you escape from it” and gullible people are going in head first.

    • Telorand@reddthat.comEnglish
      2 months

      It’s like when the internet first came about for the general public, and we had to constantly remind people, “Don’t believe everything you read. Nobody has to tell the truth.” I’m still unsure if we learned that lesson, but unlike the internet, AI is additionally and already largely hated by a majority of people.

        • teyrnon@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2 months

          That sounds like a great idea, I didn’t even know about this until I looked it up just now, Directory Mozilla, that somehow got bought up by aol which got bought by yahoo which killed it.

  • zingo@sh.itjust.works
    English
    2 months

    AI - It’s only a google search (manipulation) engine on steroids.

    Not at all for the good of humanity.

    Who saw that coming?