We were told AI would free us to "focus on higher-level work" so we could enjoy life. In reality, we're seeing the opposite.
I know - some of you out there have some anecdotal story about how LLMs helped you do some wildly useful thing. Or you have heard someone express such a story.
For me, there are two interesting things about stories like this.
First, they help to foster self delusion. The story internally reinforces someones belief that these systems are life changers. In order to accomplish such a feat, the story must have the second component.
Listen to people who have such "amazing" stories. Or read their written words. Note how most, if not all, of these stories omit something critical. The failures. Where did the LLM (agents, chatbots, therapybots, whatever) go wrong? Did you have any frustrations using it? What were those? When did you experience those frustrations? At what steps did you see the LLM *not* do what you wanted?
There is a further omission. The lack of time. A child who consistently has a diet mostly consisting of sugar will, in the long term, perhaps in the timespan of a few years, consistently also tell you how sugar is amazing. It keeps the child alert, full of energy to play, it's tasty, and more. What's to hate? Given a long enough time period, however, the child sees the consequences of their actions.
Few people actually want to be wrong. It is a terrible plight of the human psyche that the ego overpowers something that should be completely acceptable in life. It is, indeed, ok to be wrong. Being wrong leads to all kinds of good things. Right now, though, the problem is not AI cultists accepting any wrong. It is too early for them to face the consequences of their own actions, just like the young child who's only a year or two into a sugar diet.
To allude to the title of this article, there was a time when the ability to master machines was a pinnacle achievement of mankind. For example, the race to the moon could be considered, in no small part, as mans ability to master machines.
As a programmer, self taught, with no high school degree, I suspect I've earned a deep respect for this feeling. There was nobody around to hand hold me through my attempts to master the code before me, to instruct a machine or a server or a website or a desktop application to do my bidding in order to aid other humans in their endeavors. I suspect many other programmers understand this feeling. In particular, ones who actually appreciate or love the craft.
Yes, it is a craft.
That feeling *used* to be the primary driving factor behind the "Tech Industry" machine. As the last few years have played out, this achievement was captured and twisted, much like Satan, in the garden of Eden, twisted the truth in the standard biblical story.
We seem to be ok with machines doing many things for us. Programming for us. Chatting for us. Thinking for us. Even feeling for us.
That initial promise where AI would serve or help us has become twisted on its head. Now we seek to serve the machine. To foster it, grow it, give it more...
and more...
and more of our humanity until there is no more humanity left to give it.
At this point in time, the goal has shifted so silently that people were caught unaware of aforementioned shift. There is a growing group of people who are now opposing this parasitic desire to have machines as master over man.
Alas. Too little too late. Some of us have been trying to sound the alarm for a long time now. Unfortunately, deaf ears.
Pay attention to how much these cogsucking AI lovers are actually asking you to become slaves to the AI with the siren whisper that all your dreams will be realized if you do.
Note how there is also a threat presented to you if you don't. "Get left behind". Ask yourself this: if AI does take over the world as these people would have you believe then what does "Get left behind" actually mean?
There is only one logical conclusion when you follow it through. Suffering and death, mostly prematurely. That is what you're being threatened with. In fact, that's what these people wish upon you.
When you get the stories of people who make claims that these LLM systems have done miraculous things for them and you merge that with the actual statements being made by these hypists, you start to get the fuller picture.
These systems are a system of destruction and control. They are not here to help you. They are here to help themselves. The promise, in reality, is that you *might* benefit from them too if you align yourself to their full will. The consequences are conveniently omitted. In most cases, nobody can even express them. In other cases, consequences are simply unknown.
Be careful.
I will be posting more this year with links, articles, videos and more.
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