We all know that the internet is a product of US military agencies. Yet, the default idea is that the internet means (more or less) free flow of information and a good thing in general.
But is that so? Could it be that the internet was just another con from the get go? Just a bit longer one than the rest of them. After all, we've seen it before.
For example, smartphones. At the start it was all fun and games. Then it got a bit more serious, but still nice and cool. And now it has turned into opressive slave device, with constant suveillance, that is almost compulsory to have and quite hard to live without.
Is the internet any different? It started as this highway of information, rainbows and unicorns and all that. But now it gets more and more censored, more and more oppressive with each passing day. If current trend continues, at the end it will be nothing more than totally controlled tool of oppression. Could it be that that was its design from the very beginning?
Yes. Not only were they running AIs behind the scenes on cooperative media to block opponents on demand, but I observed increasing use of bots to influence or degrade threads beginning during the Barry era. The LLM technology did not just appear recently appear, I believe they had it earlier than we know and now they are opening it up to our knowing it.
It was there before OpenAI, which is why I don't trust Sam Altman. I believe he is just a figurehead for government program to use chat AI to transform society - in a bad way. Look at how smartphones dumb people down by turning them to rely on smartphones to look things up. Now we have smartphone mental zombies. AI will be 100 times worse as people get used to not thinking for themselves. Who will really benefit once this dumbs us down ever further? Not the Republicans.
I think it has been around since 2017-2018 at least in major use. I remember seeing many AI forums years ago where everything was completely faked by AI. It was not great, but enough to trick you into reading for a few minutes before you suddenly got into some weird logical grammar problems.
The first smart launch of bots were already around in 2012-2014 etc, so definitely AI was being worked on before we were allowed anything. I think openAI was a way to run a disclosure campaign and privatize the idea before it got linked with the military and intelligence and TPTB
I agree with your analysis about OpenAI. And Google had been running chatbot basis technology for years before this all because publicly popular. I kept seeing similarities between capabilities discussed in their LLM papers and what bots on Reddit and other places were doing.
By the way, here is an alarm. There is a Google paper: "Consensus and subjectivity of skin tone annotation for ML fairness". What is this? I saw a research paper of theirs that discussed how to AI tag texts for skin color of author. Let that sink in in the context of anti white censorship.
I also note that 95% of Google's AI research staff are not white and most are not originally US citizens. This reflects an HR policy somehow.