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Tao Talk 
Very well said, Lisa! To your point about machines one day being in control, the Captcha function in which a machine asks us to prove we are human seems like too much foreshadowing. It’s all scary, but people flock to thieving platforms like ChatGPT, completely unaware that much of what it spews out is inaccurate, and using others’ efforts without paying for them. A precursor to a postmodern form of enslavement?
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Oops, I was on a tirade and forgot to thank you for your wishes and hope you are enjoying the day, too. 🙂
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:) You are welcome, and I am.
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😊
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Steve, I appreciate your comment and can see you’ve given it some thought also. “Thieving platforms” is a perfect descriptor and so is “spews.” Have you seen the movie, “The Matrix”? I can’t help but think that’s where we’re headed.
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Thanks, Lisa. I have indeed given it a lot of thought, and continue to as I keep hearing of more settings on apps and programs that default to sharing one’s content for AI use. 🤬
The “thieving” bit is a riff on a friend’s descriptor of AI, which you probably have seen me share before, “The World-burning Plagiarism Machine.” “Spews”… well, that’s self-explanatory!
I did see The Matrix many years ago, and feel you are correct there.
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You’re welcome. I haven’t seen the setting on apps you mention but I haven’t been looking for it either. If it’s in the very find print, where you check a box at the end to agree, that’s probably why.
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I get what you mean about the virtual scrolls of fine print you have to “sign” so that you can get past. Ugh. I think one needs a law degree to understand all that.
No, unfortunately the problem is the particular settings I’m referring to are usually buried deep in app or device settings. I’ve railed before (and you probably saw it, and have heard it from me ad nauseam 🙄) how WordPress has moved around the setting that opts you out of your content being used to train AI, so that it’s hard to find and disable. The default on the setting is “yes.” Each time I go to find it to send a link to someone, it’s gone, moved someplace else and of course always counterintuitive. 🤬
The other day I was on a rare visit into Instagram to see a reel on one of the grandbabies, then some others played automatically, all iPhone hacks, some for saving battery, etc., but some were privacy and security – and one was similar to the WP AI shenanigans.
I would do a blog post on this sometime if I could find a song to complement it! 🤭
Well… there I go again… I’ll see myself out… 😂
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lol :)
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Thanks for sharing all of your interesting thoughts about AI. Lisa.
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You are welcome, Jim.
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Maybe one of the purposes of this AI-push is to make us less human. We have no inherent value to the top 0.1%; we’re just a means to an end for them. And if we were to become “less human” then we would be easier to manage, easier to direct, and easier to dispose of. And if we’re all machines slaving away then we’re less likely to rebel. I’m reminded of that Black Mirror episode where society comprised of workers living in glass boxes surrounded by adverts. No individuality or community, just workers and consumers, all to keep the machine chugging along.
With AI they can feed us slop to keep us satiated. They can also use AI to spy on us. They are trying to use AI to devalue what it means to be a person be stripping away art, privacy and our shared reality. In the short-term, they will likely to succeed. In the long-term, humanity will win out in the end. I hope.
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TH, thank you for sharing your insights on AI and those at the top 0.1%. I agree with all you say.
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What I do in google while searching is for example… ifI’m searching for… prairie dogs -ai
and that gives me the answer without AI with the -ai…it works with google but I’m not sure about the other search engines.
I think AI is a great tool…a great tool but ONLY a tool but again….it will be/and is overused as everything else is. Yea I’m sure one day we won’t be able to turn it off.
When I go to a Microsoft Portal to work…their AI wants to take over and it takes forever just to get past it.
So yea I’m getting tired of it and it’s only just begun.
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Oh, didn’t know about that “-ai” thanks much, Max. I use duck duck go. Will try it and see what happens. I am not sure video games of the quality I have seen can be created without AI but I don’t know anything about it. Not sure what a Microsoft Portal is, but it sounds irritating!
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It is irritating! Basically the portal is a place I go if I need to change someone’s password or somthing like that…they made what used to be easy a chore now….
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p.s. I just tested it out in duck duck go and it worked. Thanks so much, Max. You just made my night (it’s after 2 a.m. right now so probably should have said my morning :)
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Cool! I didn’t know that it worked on other search engines…they must have made it universal …cool! We both learned something! lol.
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:)
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I think the drive toward more intelligent machines- is precisely geared toward more efficient control of the masses. Universe willing, I will exit stage left before it really gets a foothold.
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I hear you, V.
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I am going to read nobody’s girl soon too Li! It is on my list of books that I will be reading over the next 2 months. X
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Good, CA. Knowing your trauma history, I would pace yourself in reading. It can be overwhelming (and triggering.)
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