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:
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Text generators? Those are actually
Large Language Models, nothing but fancy autocorrects
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Image generators? Diffusion Models that take random
noise and try to recreate a picture by grouping surrounding pixels
together
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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.