Software cannot create information
The AI software cannot
conduct research and develop new ideas, as a human scientist can do.
Perhaps it will be able to conduct certain types of research in the
distant future, but as of 2023 the AI software is getting all of its
information from the Internet.
Unfortunately, the Internet is full of
propaganda from businesses trying to sell products, and criminals
trying
to cover up their crimes. As a result, the AI
software provides us with a lot of propaganda about products and
history.
One of the organizations
that is concerned about ChatGPT is NewsGuard, and
they claim that ChatGPT has created propaganda in the style of "Russian
state media" or "China’s authoritarian government". A more realistic
description of what ChatGPT did is that it found some of the propaganda
created by the Zionist Jews.
The AI software does not create
information or
disinformation. It is simply a tool
to help us search through the
information and disinformation
on the Internet.
I used one of
the free AI image programs (canva)
to create the
image above with the prompt "A
man using a shovel to search
through the trash at a city dump". Then I added the text. What
are the risks to this type of AI software?
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Using AI
to search through the Internet is analogous to using a shovel to search through the trash at a city dump.
Even a child has enough
intelligence to
realize that a shovel cannot
create trash. Rather, it makes
it easier for us to search through
the trash.
Are the "experts" who complain that the AI software is producing disinformation
truly so stupid or ignorant that they don't understand
that the software is simply providing us with the information and disinformation that people have posted on
the Internet? I don't think so.
We should learn from the “experts”
A person who is an
"expert", a "prominent scientist", or a "tech industry notable" should
know more
than the ordinary person about his field of expertise. We should learn
something of
value from the experts.
We should resist the craving to become submissive to "experts" and pass
judgment on their leadership abilities. For example:
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If an expert knows less than an
ordinary person, then he is either too ignorant to be an expert,
or he
is faking ignorance in order
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If an expert is
only capable of frightening
us, then he is a fearmonger,
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If an expert is
only capable of titillating us
with praise, sexual material, trophies, jokes, puppies, or babies, then
he should be regarded as a "pornographer",
and we should consider that he is trying to trick us into trusting him
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Technology is not good or bad
Whether AI software is useful or
harmful depends on how we use it. This concept is more easily
understood with other types of technology,
such as guns, knives, poisons, insulin, heroin, and fentanyl. None of
those items can harm us by themselves. Furthermore, they are not inherently dangerous. Whether
they are beneficial or dangerous depends upon how we use them.
Our technology can be used for either destructive
purposes or beneficial
purposes. It is the people
that determine whether technology is harmful or beneficial, not the
technology.
For example, a telephone
can be beneficial technology, but it
can also be used by telemarketers and other criminals to exploit,
manipulate, and deceive us. Likewise, knives can be
beneficial technology, or they can be used to murder people, or be used by people
to harm themselves.
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“Nearly
25% of teenage girls have intentionally
injured themselves, but only 10% of boys. They often
use knives!
Knives
are also being used to murder
people!
The knife
businesses are locked in an
out-of-control race to improve this sexist and risky technology that nobody can control!
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Incidentally, the photo above came from this video that
YouTube has since removed " for
violating YouTube's Community Guidelines". A free enterprise
system allows businesses to decide which products they want to offer,
so YouTube has the right to remove the videos they disapprove of.
However, free enterprise doesn't function properly in our era because
there is no real competition to YouTube, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and
other gigantic companies. Therefore, allowing businesses to censor
information is giving them the ability to control the information that
we have access to, thereby manipulating
our opinions.
That would be acceptable only if the
businesses were
providing appropriate
leadership.
We must be concerned with people, not technology
Computer software is
beneficial or destructive
depending upon the person who
uses it. We can also use alcohol, morphine, drones, and guns in
beneficial or
destructive manners.
We need to be concerned with what people are
doing with technology, not be afraid of the technology.
Unfortunately, every culture has evolved to please the majority of
people, and this results in every culture resisting the concept that
people are responsible for their bad behavior. For example, when
somebody
abuses alcohol, heroin, insulin, steroids, or OxyContin, almost
everybody avoids
blaming the person
and instead blames something else, such as advertisements, the drug
dealers, or the nations that produce the drug.
As a result of that idiotic attitude, most people believe that they can
protect people from drug abuse by making some drugs illegal and others
by prescription only, and by punishing the people and nations who
produce or sell
drugs. In
reality, drugs are abused only
by the people who either
choose to abuse them, or don't have the mental ability or knowledge to
use them properly.
Children do not have the mental ability or knowledge to handle a lot of
modern
technology, so children must be protected from a lot of items, but if
every adult had an appropriate mind and
education, there would be no drug abuse.
Likewise, if a society consisted of
higher quality people, nobody
would be interested in using telephone technology to run telemarketing
scams, or using knives or guns to murder people.
AI can help us find the truth
The criminals who are
working at YouTube,
Facebook, the FBI, Google, the ADL, the SPLC, the media companies, the
Wikipedia, and other
organizations are promoting propaganda and suppressing honest
information and people. The AI software makes it easier for us to find
the
truth. However, when the AI software provides us with the truth, those
criminals whine that the AI software is providing disinformation.
If the public has access to honest AI software, it will be easier for
us to identify the criminals and their propaganda. Therefore, the
people
who want to exploit us want to have control of the AI software so that
they can give us a modified
version that promotes their propaganda and
hides the truth.
AI software is a tool, just
like a hammer or a knife, and a tool can be used by honest people for
beneficial purposes, or it can be used by criminals to kill,
manipulate, deceive, or exploit us.
We don't have to be afraid of AI
software.
Rather, we have to be concerned about the people
that we are living with.
Resist the urge to be a
frightened child
Humans and animals are
easily frightened, but when an organization provides us with some
frightening information, we should push ourselves into remaining calm
and passing judgment on whether they are educating us about something,
or whether they are criminals who are trying to manipulate us with
fear. Consider how many times criminals have tried to frighten us into
opposing technology that we benefit from. For example:
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When caller ID
technology was first developed, a lot of people tried to
frighten us into believing that it should be forbidden because it was
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When security
cameras became popular, a lot
of people tried to frighten us into believing that the cameras were
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When it became
possible to identify a criminal by
his DNA,
a lot of people began trying to
frighten us into believing that the police
are invading our privacy by asking for DNA samples. There are also
people trying to frighten us into believing that the companies that
provide DNA analyses are violating our privacy if they give our DNA
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Incidentally, the government officials allowed caller ID and security
cameras because the officials don't fear that technology, but they are
still making it difficult for the police to get DNA samples. I
suspect it is because many government officials are trying to protect
themselves and/or other criminals, not because they are truly concerned
that DNA samples are invading our privacy.
A lot of people boast about their bravery and courage, but most people
are very easily manipulated with frightening information. For
example, YouTube, the
ADL, Facebook, the SPLC, and other organizations have fooled most
people into believing that censorship
will protect us from false
information, crazy conspiracy theories, sexism, Nazis, racism, hate
speech, anti-Semitism, and homophobia.
Perhaps the best example of how easily people are frightened is that a
small group of Jews have frightened millions
of people into believing that the "Holocaust
deniers" are providing false information that is so
dangerous that nobody should look at it. This has
allowed the Jews to fool many nations into passing laws that
prohibit "Holocaust Denial".
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“To protect the
public, the
Holocaust Deniers must be arrested!
Whoever
hears their lies
will turn
to stone!”
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Criminals have had so much success in manipulating people with fear
that
they are now trying to frighten us about AI
software. They claim to be our heroes
who will protect us
from its " profound risks to
society and humanity". They will also protect us from the neurotic software developers
who are " locked in an
out-of-control race" to create software that nobody " can understand, predict, or reliably
control."
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“Please
protect me from the profound risks
of AI!” |
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We have to expect children to be easily frightened, and we
can't expect women to show much courage, but adult men
should not
be
frightened by software, robots, knives, or other technology.
Adult men should also not be
afraid that drug dealers will make them become drug
addicts; that gambling casinos will make them gamble; or that food
markets will make them become obese.
The truth does not need protection!
Since children mimic people
without understanding what they are doing, they need to be protected
from certain types of "bad" information, such as the Internet challenges,
but an adult man should not need
protection from false information, a difference of opinions,
constructive criticism, conspiracy theories, speculations, or wild
guesses.
Furthermore, an "expert" should realize that we don't need to protect the truth by
censoring false information or crazy conspiracy theories. Therefore,
the experts should not have any fear of Holocaust Deniers, or the
"crazy
conspiracy theory" that Israel blew up the World Trade Center towers.
None of the problems we suffer from are due to "technology". Rather,
all of our problems are due to people, such
as the people who use technology to deceive,
murder, or exploit; the
voters who cannot make wise decisions about their leadership; and the
people who can look critically only at other
people and other cultures.
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