Also that there’s a conspiracy from the atheist tech elites to ruin Christmas by making electricity so expensive no one wants to put up Christmas lights
Only the followers believe the propaganda. The leaders don’t actually believe it, they use it to control their flock of stupids. And they only listen to their leaders.
This is why religion was invented to begin with
Reminds me of my first day of intro to programming my first semester of freshman year at a small Christian Reformed college.
It opened with prayer and then a lecture on how technology is inherently evil. Then we started writing a java applet.
I applied to a state school within 2 weeks of starting.
Tell them that asking AI a question is just like consulting a ouija board. The answers are coming from the same plane.
I mean, it will literally steal your soul. Using LLMs changes you. It degrades your skills. Its sycophancy harms your ability to interact with actual human beings with opinions of their own. It makes you feel like you are never wrong. And use it enough, and it can literally drive you mad.
LLMs are the closest real thing to a malevolent demon that will steal your soul.
Holy shit, I know Lemmy is rabidly anti-AI, but what hot take is this? Do you have the same thoughts on video games? What about movie and TV?
Is AI hyped to he’ll? Absolutely. Is it going away? Absolutely not.
This whole anti-AI attitude reminds me of all those physical server and data center admins lamenting about how dumb the cloud is and how it’s all hype.
Have you not seen the literature showing the effects regular LLM use has on people? You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide? That’s like literal Satan, Prince of Darkness, Father of All Lies shit
Is it actually the spawn of a literal personal devil? Of course not. But the damn things act a hell of a lot like the devils of myth and legend. They tempt you in with the promise of easy effortless success and riches. And in the end they take everything from you.
You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide?
Chatbots have been around since the 70s. They’ve always been able to coach people to commit suicide. The problem isn’t the software. It’s the wetware. People used to somehow manage not to get talked into killing themselves by their Commodore VIC 20.
I mean, sure, if it’s being used in ways like that. Using it as a therapist or as a replacement for human contact, yeah, I can see what you mean, but I’m not sure I’d go as far as to call it demonic.
My ultra-religious mother “heard from someone” that AI “is the devil” so she wouldn’t use it. That’s great. Unfortunately, it made her really scared of everything. She was super anxious because AI was in the news all the time.
I really don’t want her to use AI, because she already has such a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality. But, I still had to try to explain to her that LLMs are just fancy auto-complete, and how often they get things wrong to reduce her stress level. I hope she continues not to use them, but now I hope she just shakes her head and sighs when someone else uses one, instead of thinking they’re letting evil into their bodies.
Now tell her that Facebook is all AI now. Maybe we can get them away from the brainwashing
She doesn’t use facebook, just conspiracy forums.
Nah, it’ll just make sure they lobby the government so AI has to have a pro-religion and anti-lgbtq bias. Do we really need more Groks?
Using eldritch runes etched in silicon to invoke a pale imitation of a living being is basically already summoning demons
We do traditionally call programs working in the ‘background’ daemons. Mostly after Maxwell’s Daemon but the pioneers of computing knew what they were about.
Someone needs to make a BIBLE AI. Say that it’s totally based on the Bible and then program it to slowly change their beliefs.
Someone already did that, https://chatwithjesus.app/
Just tell them it’s stopping people from reading scripture and interpreting Jesus without the holyspirt. People are turning to AI assuming it’s Gods word and AI companies won’t stop it.
Most Xtians have never read the bible.
If they had, they’d advocate for it to be banned. Think of the content it contains. Think of the children! Oh! The vapours!
Evangelicals are the specific exception. Scripture is gods holy word and how he shows them he loves them. it is a physical manifestation of gods love that they can experience anytime.
They take pride in reading and having memorization events. Anything getting in the way of that is SIN.
Using the word “convince” means you might not fully realise what you’re facing.
You can’t convince the brainwashed, it’s not about what is said, but rather who said it. Unless you’re one of the authority figures they take their instructions from, there’s nothing you can say to convince them because as far as they’re concerned, you’re just a lyin’ lib’rul Satanist or some other bullshit.
Ok maybe I should’ve used hornswaggle if that’s more your flavor, judgey mcjudgerson
Apologies if you took it as judging, that was not my intention. I’m just pointing out they only listen to whatever their authority figure is. The ability to reason about something is not in their toolbox
Tell them it makes the tower of babel look like a sandcastle
But Peter Thiel said we need the technology to restrain the antichrist.
Unlikely. They like all the new “features”.
But the people telling them how to think or feel want it and have a way better budget than you.
