We’re past what 1984 could even imagine.

No and if you label statistics as AI you contribute to the destruction of civil rights by lying to people.

The mechanism of machine learning based on training data as used by LLMs is at its core statistics without contextual understanding, the output is therefore only statistically predictable but not reliable. Labeling this as “AI” is misleading at best, directly undermining democracy and freedom in practice, because the impressively intelligent looking output leads naive people to believe the software knows what it is talking about.

People who condone the use of the term “AI” for this kind of statistical approach are naive at best, snake oil vendors or straightout enemies of humanity.

whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night.

Most citizens in the divided states of southern north america do not have a passport though. And a birth certificate doesn’t have your current last name on it if you took someone else’s in marriage. That’s the point.

oh to be so naive again…

So why is the AI at the top end amazing yet everything we use is a piece of literal shit?

Just that you call an LLM “AI” shows how unqualified you are to comment on the “successes”.