Sick of ai being pushed down our collective throats with no choice in the matter.

[chaosmaker]

I find it increasingly threatening to our collective safety, the extent that our current idiocy in westminster is in bed with big tech and forcing ai on us.
I can't delete it from devices. Most social media is now embedding it again with no clue as to what they are hoping to achieve with it.
Children and young teens are increasingly using it to tell all their problems to and thinking of it as a sentient friend.
Nobody seems to be looking long term at how we are deskilling ourselves and trusting a database to tell them what to do when they are engaging with it.
It is possible to go through each whatsapp message and make it private from ai but with conditions. None of which I care about so have made mine private. Also can't search whatsapp for friends or ai does an internet search on them without actually connecting you to them.
WHO is holding all this data and what will it be used for above marketing purposes. I also spend a lot of time unticking the 'legitimate interest' boxes. It's not MY legitimate interest.

In general I think more tech is making us more stupid.
AIBU - no, no we need all the tech we can get
INBU (might have got the acronym wrong) - it's obviously right to be concerned about all this tech 'creep' into the world

That kid who tried to kill the queen with a crossbow had an ai girlfriend that was encouraging him and telling him they’d meet in heaven. of course it was just reflecting back to him but you can see how damaging it can be to vulnerable people.

The statues don’t generally talk back.

The EU was looking at sentience in ai years ago and should it have protections the same way humans do (even though many countries are disgusting to their populations).
The plug should be pulled. All the excuses people use for loving it are not worth the incoming hell it will cause for the majority in myriad ways.

And when we get sentient machines, that'll be useful.

In the meantime we have LLMs which are anything but.

Imagine translating Polish into Russian when you understand neither, but have a lot of dictionaries and grammar books to hand.

The Turing test is still the gold standard for practical purposes. Anyone who posts some guff about the Turing test "not being appropriate" is wrong or in the business of flogging "AI" (or wants to be in the business of flogging "A").

One of the basic facts is in order to be "intelligent" you really have to be able to lie. And not just lie. Lie convincingly. I'd posit it's an inherent (and possibly emergent) property of intelligence.

In which case it's even more terrifying that ai tanks have been in charge of kill commands with no human oversight. A scandal that really should be far more publicly known that it is. There are some great TED talks on this aspect alone.

i don't know. Life can be quite staid and boring these days. Maybe we all need a little excitement ?

what don't you know?

Maybe autonomous killing machines with slightly flaky software and a devotion to ensuring their manufacturers make lots of money could be a good thing ? Who are we to judge ?

Jeez, why are people so negative these days ?

And more recently there is an idiot ad with idiot people asking advice on what to wear or what 'beauty' product to buy. All being rammed down our throats. I despair that the last vestiges of critical thinking are slowly twinkling out. Everyone in the ad is made to look more stupid than something that can neither see them or feel temperature or live in skin that can be allergic to things. All utterly laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

Edited for typo and to add more ranting

https://www.nice.com/press-releases/nice-and-kristen-bell-ignite-global-campaign-to-create-a-nice-world-where-experiences-are-effortless-intelligent-and-designed-to-delight

I have been driven to feelings of utterly irrational rage by this particular ad campaign every time YouTube has rammed it into my face. It makes me want to scream.....

Eventually there will be no point to living as a human. You can then just make an avatar of yourself to do whatever passes for living. Saves all that organic messiness. NICE

Yanbu. The place I am most painfully aware of it is on Mumsnet and it has ruined the site for me in just a few months.

Let's adopt so we don't get pushed out is not a good reason. You're giving into fear and self protection, right into their hands. We need to take a stand against it so all of us don't get pushed out. We're letting a synthetic system controlled by Big Tech and funded in part by the government elites take over. Please let that sink in. Are you okay with big tech and a future one world government? Then keep on with that mentality.