AI is designed to make you dependent on it
We are still in the gravy train part of the rug pull scam. AI is heavily subsidised by billionaires and massive corporates, who have been sold on a false promise of replacing you, the person, replacing you, the worker, with a perfect machine slave that never rests, never complains, and does everything it's told.
But what will happen once the investors start demanding returns, the free money runs out, the true cost of running AI models comes forward, and those that have been on the hype train realize the true limitations of AI? Those who have become dependent on it will be forced to start paying big. And the already obscene fortunes of AI Robber Barons will grow even further.
And that is not us. We value independence and long-term planning.
Therefore, we reject the false premise of the “AI Future.”
AI is not intelligent, and hallucinations are a feature
From self-prompting to multiple agents talking to one another until they both agree, countless resources have been spent on trying to correct AI hallucinations. However, hallucinations are inherent to the way AI, or Large Language Models more specifically, work, and they will never be fixed.
Large Language Models are nothing but a fancy autocorrect. Where they differ from your phone’s keyboard is the size of their memory, which they can use to predict the possible next word, based on a huge database of previous words. But that’s all it is, a prediction.
The AI doesn’t know or understand what it’s writing. Give the same AI the same prompt, and watch it give you two completely different answers.
It can guess, but it will never know.
Fixing this would require a complete rebuilding of the way the Large Language Model operates.
AI is the most successful con man in history
“Funny how when I ask AI about something I know, it’s completely wrong, But when I ask it about something I don’t know, it gives a great answer.”
This is a paraphrasing of a post I saw on Reddit a couple of weeks ago.
In addition to what was written above, corporate executives love AI because it is extremely good at one thing - making you think it knows what it’s talking about, and masterfully avoiding any accountability.
Just last week, just for fun and to keep up with the newest developments, I tried asking one of the leading AIs, Claude specifically, to add a simple feature to a search button. The requirements were simple: automatically focus the field when it appears so the user can start searching right away.
At first, it gave me something that seemed like exactly what I wanted, and it even seemed to work properly… at first.
When I inspected the code more closely, I saw a massive chunk of code that did seemingly nothing - variables being reassigned to themselves, delegates and coordinators being created and never used, pointless two-way bindings that referenced one another convenience initializers that initialized one variable out of ten, then silently failed.
Just for the fun of it, I removed all the pointless code that Claude conjured up, and asked: “Even without this code, the feature works as it should. What is the point of all the useless code?”
And what I got back didn’t surprise me in the slightest.
“You’re absolutely right! The code doesn’t need to be there, but if you remove it, (the feature that the AI made up that was not in the original spec at all) will not work.”
AI is great at lying. And that’s it.
AI is killing the environment and destroying people’s lives
Imagine a beautiful forest full of plants, animals, and various critters. A functioning ecosystem.
Now, burn it all down. Bulldoze the trees, pave over the grass with monochromatic asphalt. And in place of an environment teeming with life, build a data center that disturbs the weather, devours only the most pristine water to cool itself, and uses unbelievable amounts of electricity to churn out pages nobody will actually ever read.
People living around this kafkaesque complex will be forever tormented by noise they can just barely hear. The water they need to live will become brown and black with dirt and rust while the data center gets it in their place. They won’t be able to shower or get water out of the tap, as the pressure needed will go to pushing millions of liters into the useless facilities.
That is the most wretched and perverted use of any technology in recent years.
AI will lead to a tyrannical police state
What will happen once the rug invariably gets pulled? Those data centers will start serving another purpose.
All around the world, governments are assembling massive networks of cameras, “license plate readers” that are suspiciously equipped with microphones sensitive enough to listen in on your conversations, and other unimaginable surveillance devices.
All that computing power built up under the guise of bringing about the “AI future” will start being used to spy on you, follow your every movement, listen to all your calls, and more.
Much of this infrastructure has already been established.
Once those data centers are sitting idle, once the commuting power is not being used to churn out unbelievable amounts of useless slop, it will be used to supercharge these already existing programs.
Nobody knows what AI even is
AI has become a catch-all term for whatever system tends to be generative and produces unpredictable outputs that cannot be replicated.
“AI pictures” this, “AI text” that. If it produces slop, it’s AI.
It’s no wonder that people think that. A lot of the AI tools bundle together many unrelated technologies, selling them as a single “AI” product.
But if we peek under the hood, we will see:
- Text generators? Those are actually Large Language Models, nothing but fancy autocorrects
- Image generators? Diffusion Models that take random noise and try to recreate a picture by grouping surrounding pixels together
- Image classifiers? They’re a technology that has been almost unchanged for the last 20 years, and has nothing to do with the current notion of “AI.” Optical Character Recognition has been a thing for decades, and works as well as it did back then, as it does now.
And none of it can reason or think. And it never will.
Only people are intelligent, creative, capable of actual thought. We can’t let this unique gift go to waste.