HOW THREE (3) DUDES DESTROYED THE FUTURE
So, last Saturday was the end of a long binge of trying to forget that the future is happening.
The year is 2025. The East Coast Great Paywall is just getted upgraded thanks to your donations to Microsoft. Life in Miami goes easy as usual. Everyone is inside playing Grand Theft Auto.
Those who didn't make it pass the Great Paywall, despite the best efforts of teleevangelists and Scientologist to make Nature straight, drowned.
They drowned. Billions drowned.
Billions are dying of famine right now, in the end of the year 2022. And it's only 2022. Weren't we supposed to be done with hunger by the end of 2025?
Once upon a time, I was not just the edgiest kid on the block, but I was part of the intelligentsia, or people who believe themselves to know more than the average Joe, in a land far far away from my brain. As part of my elite training, in a University, I learned that the "ego" of "mankind" was "shattered" at least 3 times.
The first, knowing that one is not the center of the universe.
The second, knowing that we are nothing but animals, nor above nor below an insect.
The third, knowing that even our own fucking actions are not completely ours and that we don't own all of our thoughts because there is a subconscious mind as well that works in parallel.
I think the last was just committed by a bunch of nerds in San Francisco when I heard The Daily podcast by the New York Times with the clickbait title: "Did AI just became too smart?"
Since they NEVER answer the question, that's clickbait and best SEO practices that even the fucking NEW YORK TIMES has to adhere to, and they don't actually ask what is the real problem, I will:
WHO THE FUCK IS OPENAI.
When I searched for it, on fucking BING.COM, there was a prompt to donate to OPENAI, a project, it seems, to save the world from... AI?
The dudes and/or dudettes all live in San Francisco and have their headquarters in San Francisco. They have done amazing things to destroy things like, art, music, and just basic human creativity, forcing us all to learn how to code or live BEHIND THE GREAT PAYWALL.
I am against capital punishment, the second amendment and so on.
I can write my next novel with a few prompts in a screen.
I can convert my novel into audio.
I can make that audio sync-in with a deepfake of Vladimir Putin. With tone and voice.
Hi, my name is edgeMuted, and I only have access to a PC computer. And a phone. And I think I never really liked open-world games anyways. I haven't nor will do something like that in order to, lol, start another war or a TACTICAL NUCLEAR STRIKE, or Nuke, for short, but... you are smart enough to know where this can and most probably will lead to.
I am no one, yet I can hijack myself into almost anywhere since... well, there has and is a lockdown, like, you know, billions of other humans living their life with a PC COMPUTER, a government and a lockdown. Corruption, it seems, is actually a feature of humanity. Imagine a completely totalitarian government like the Chinese government that NEVER fails and has NO CORRUPTION and is ALWAYS RIGHT. Well, that's, lol, kind of happening.
I didn't read anything about OpenAi, I just want to say FUCK YOU, to all of the team involved in the fucking chatbot they just released into the open as if it was just some fucking nice toy that you lol teach your children with. ITS A FUCKING WEAPON YOU ASSHOLES.
A tool, a wise woman once said, is a weapon.
They have no moral authority to fucking decide for "the rest of us", meaning, they, the intelligentsia, have thought and program it through enough so it will do the best... benefit profit? The fuck are they trying to do?
Governements are spending billions on AI. Everyone knows that Tiktok is just collecting user data to feed it to AI. Well, everyone "in the know" of Silicon Fucking Valley. It's not a conspiracy theory. Look it up, even conspiracy theorists are right about that one.
It is time to rest in Miami. Trader Joe's AI CEO goes into maintenance mode, made by other bots, and everyone is alright, using shades in the night because shit, the radiation is really shitty even at night. No body needed CEOs anyways, and you can replace anyone with a chatbot. Specially if their job implies talking.
And it's way cheaper than a human.
Thanks a lot OpenAi, and the three/dozens of assholes involved in destroying any hope we had for the future.
The fourth and final blow to the ego of mankind is thus: we are animals who make machines who cannot help themselves from building them until we finally kill ourselves. Maybe the first blow was too much for our collective ego.
SO yea, I will probably test the thing or not whenever I get my paycheck for being a unwilling test subject of something like, I don't know, what you just read but add in this cool new feature: it can read your thoughts! I have never gotten any paycheck nor signed any contract willingly or unwillingly and I hereby decleare Wintermute an enemy against humanity. Just read any of the other posts to know what is a fucking Wintermute and how do you eat one
THEY FUCKING SAY THAT perhaps THEY DID IT FOR RESEARCH REASSONS. Who needs journalism anyways. (Alright, we do need someone who fucking reads Twitter and is in fact a human. Otherwise, is chatbots all the way down to the fucking robot who delivers your share of canned beans for the month).
Oh, I don't know how many people were involved in an opensource project, but I guess they have a CEO and someone who executed the action, probably with the counsel of some old white dude who told him that everyone is doing it so it will probably be for the best. Just like in 1922 (reference to some History Channel bullshit here). Now, that fucking chatbot can write exactly like me. LOL.
Oh, yea, famine and billions dying. It's hard to even fathom up until the moment you are left behind the great paywalls that will keep us somewhat safe if we accumulate enough wealth to own a home and pay the mortage for the rest of our relatively shorter lives than, I don't know, two weeks ago. That's why I am making this post and...
Who needs this blogpost.
Who needs to live forever.
Who needs a drink?
We cheered as we destroyed our world, behind a facade of cynicism to hide the fear. It's not the first time I feel this way.
If this line has found you in trouble, may your troubles soon be over.
Or it might turn out better than I think, but that's parent's jobs to think. Sci-fi writers are obsolete, so are writers, so are most people and we are all artists of some kind, the last fucking thing we can become if we accumulate enough wealth to live behind the paywalls that exists already, like, the rent, or food, or anything that you need money to buy. Somethings you can get for free. A chatbot that destroys humanity is one.