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One thing I never see anyone talk about with regard to AI is the facet to individualism it manufactures atop social behavior. It has already been stripping humanity of collaboration as a discipline and further solidifies radicalizing echo chamber bubbles
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Anonymous 3w

I mean yes, there are real isolation concerns in regard to people choosing AI over socializing and using it as an authority, but people aren’t being used as pawns because simply because of AI. Disinformation is a concept that is simply passed around rather than actually being talked about because it makes everyone uncomfortable thinking they’re full of shit.

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Anonymous 3w

Exactly. AI positions itself as a source of truth, an unbiased aggregator of pure information. It is not that. It reads you for your biases, and acts to reinforce those biases. It is a respectability machine, not a knowledge machine. ChatGPT wants you to keep using it, so it confirms your feelings, regardless of whether your own feelings are based in reality or not. And it. does the same for the next guy, who may have diametrically opposed attitudes.

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Anonymous 3w

It deepens skepticism between ourselves as humans and intensifies uncertainty, “well chatgpt says,” “grok says,” you are being used as a pawn under the influence that AI has over you so that the government has secured control over you through the biases that allow AI to manufacture propaganda so easily

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

And that’s the thing with Gen AI, is that the propaganda is being served directly to you while you are being told that this is the future and the future is inevitable. It is only as inevitable as you are ready to lay down your individual freedom

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

And that’s the thing to remember, is that individual freedom and individualism in this context is very distinct. Individualism refers to the perverse serving of one’s self at the sacrifice of others, even if that self-serving is under the influence of propaganda, while individual freedom is the choice of one’s own to interact with society freely and without influence, making decisions and performing moral evaluation on one’s own volition

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

My roommate and I were once in an argument, something silly, some relatively obscure point of historical fact we both thought the other was mistaken about. We both googled it. Our two AI overviews gave us two different answers, his confirmed his argument, and mine confirmed mine. Even though there was no way those things could coexist, no way for them both to be true. Giving two opposing answers when two people ask the same question, verbatim, means it’s an atomization machine.

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Anonymous replying to -> ___joker__ 3w

I really would argue the contrary, as harsh as using the word pawn may seem, because the West’s perception of propaganda as a whole is incredibly sanitized. Westerners commonly view propaganda as something you’d only see in socialist undeveloped countries, that only stupid people can fall for it, when propaganda in reality finds ways to relate to the masses in order to influence them in a controlling manner, and that’s why it works so well in the West because no one realizes that

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Anonymous replying to -> ___joker__ 3w

Asserting that government has secured control over AI is a bit baseless though. I mean sure, OpenAI took a deal with DOD but that it’s a bit conspiracy doomerism to assume that everything is 1984 New World Order. Your use of individualism and individual freedom are also your own made up distinctions rather than being the standard.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

I don’t think he’s denying that AI is propagandized. I think he’s acknowledging that every one of us has views colored by propaganda, and that AI is simply a mechanism of reinforcement. Just to steel-man his point a little bit.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 3w

Yes. That’s my point. The 2016 election was rife with misinformation and AI wasn’t even really around then. We have active political disagreements based on literal bullshit. The COVID vaccine was a big one. Having the agency to use any tool bares personal responsibility at some level.

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