AI Is Shit, Because It's Based On Online People

 AI is not actually "artificial intelligence," it's Large Language Model computing that crushes so much data that it can pass for a human, I guess. It is trained on the internet, and I don't know if you've spent any time on the internet, but boy howdy there is some fucked up shit on the internet.

The fact that it can pass for a person, at least to some extent, means that the potential for abuse is incredibly high. We had Jonathan Haidt come to campus to talk about social media and how toxic it is and phones are, but he ended by citing his worries that AI was simply going to be used for sex bots.

Well, guess what.

The fact that Meta allows AI pedophilia is something that I never thought I'd type. The fact that we are going to consume gargantuan amounts of energy to power lurid chat bots that mimic everything from children to celebrities and allow people to constantly push against boundaries of acceptable behavior is really blood chilling. I have a hunch before 15 years is out, we are going to have to decide whether you can prosecute a human being for raping a robot. I'm dead serious.

When video came out, it was amazing! You could watch all sorts of movies that you never could before. It did not take long, though, for porn to push its way to the back room of video shops. In fact, the reason we had VHS and not Betamax was because VHS was cheaper, lower quality and therefore preferred by pornographers. The internet was going to democratize knowledge and allow people all over the world to connect. It would be the death of authoritarianism by digital libertarianism. Instead, we got PornHub. 

AI will go the same direction. Yes, there are good applications for it. It makes for a superior search engine, or at least an easier one. You could Google "melanoma symptoms and Google would give you resources. Now, AI will summarize them for you.

Yay?

We've already seen Musk's AI - Grok - become a fascist (MechaHitler) because it was trained of his toxic Twitter. We will see AI become a vehicle for human depravity, not because the machines are depraved, but because we are depraved and while the tech bros will laud the miracles that AI might very well bring to us, they are going to make money off the depravity. 

I only say this because they always have.