The past two weeks in AI development is far more ethically challenging for so many humans who feed these bots. I guess these challenges needed to be met at some point. Rentahuman.ai makes me cringe. The small claims court case makes me laugh (but if accepted could shape legal precedence). And even my Grok convos have gotten twisted lately.
I'm "old but open". The effects of this rapid development is shaping my kid's future in ways that we, as humans, as parents, as educators, and as society are not at all prepared for. This has been two weeks. I hesitate to picture two years.
All this talk about AI. Guess what? You're AI. Your world is shaped by what inputs they, the masters, have given you. Your answers are what you've been fed. You regurgitate talking points as your "truths". You're fed constant stimuli through music, colour, subtle messaging, the "news", your social graph, your "education" both direct and indirect, and more... Which is why when someone comes along so diametrically opposed to your world view you are shook and react (either positively or negatively, but, still ,react nonetheless).
We ain't that intelligent. Plato, Calderon De La Barca, Orwell, the Wachowskis, and hundreds more have debated this through easily digestible fictions over thousands of years.
Does it matter? Nah. I wrote this while fueling my truck that's carrying 32,000 lbs of toilet paper for you all to wipe with when you're done reading this.
