People apparently have difficulty understanding (or explaining to themselves) just why post-November 2022 "AI" is qualitatively worse than the previously-existing computer-media phenomena - such as the internet, social media and smartphones.
The answer is quite simple: upfront and no secret.
As usual; probably because evil must be invited into the heart in order to damage the soul; the agents of strategic evil always tell us what they intend for us, before they try to do it.
In this case, "They" have told us explicitly that the purpose of "AI" is to replace human thinking, judgment, creativity - and loving-relationships.
Again: "AI" is intended to replace humans in the realms of:
1. Thinking
2. Judgment
3. Creativity
4. Loving-relationships
In other words, the explicit intent of "AI" is to replace human beings in their most distinctive and spiritually-highest aspects.
And that is what people are agreeing-to, when they defend and promote the "AI" project.
The fact (and I regard it as a simple and sure fact) that "AI" cannot replace human beings in these aspects is almost irrelevant to the purpose of "AI"; because the purpose does not depend upon "AI" actually being able to do these things; but only on convincing human beings that "AI" can do these thing.
In sum; the reason for the tera-dollar investment and subsidy of "AI"; the mandatory top-down societal transformations, the colossal pro-"AI" career and status incentivization of the intellectual, technical, and managerial class...
Is simply that people will believe that "AI" can replace human thinking/ judgment/ creativity/ loving-relationships.
The endemic condition of AI-dolatry can therefore be defined the belief that "AI" can replace human thinking/ judgment/ creativity/ loving-relationships.
Because if you believe that "AI" can replace human thinking/ judgment/ creativity/ loving-relationships; then you will almost-inevitably (sooner or later) conclude that "AI" should replace human thinking/ judgment/ creativity/ loving-relationships.
The "should" follows the "can", because "AI" is (and has been grossly subsidized, at our expense, so as to be) quicker, easier, and more reliable than human beings.
In other words; if we believe "AI" can do X as well as (or better) than humans, then it follows that "AI" should do X.
To conclude: It is the belief about "AI" that does the spiritual harm to human beings.
We have been told explicitly what "AI" is intended to do, and there is a trillions-dollars international program tasked with implementing this...
Thus, those who justify and advocate "AI" just-are agreeing-with, justifying and advocating; the actual and on-going totalitarian strategy of replacing human beings in their most distinctive and highest aspects.
This is the side the AI-dolators have chosen, in the spiritual war of this-world.
And who could deny that the global totalitarian "AI" project and strategy has (so far) been overwhelmingly successful in convincing great swathes of people (especially in the managerial, technical, and intellectual classes) that "AI" can (and therefore, implicitly, should) replace human thinking/ judgment/ creativity/ loving-relationships?
In three short years; AI-dolatry has become not just statistically normal; not just a functional requisite for tens of millions; not just ubiquitous and unavoidable on and around the internet and social media; not just socially-rewarded...
But AI-dolatry has become positively-valued.
Given the provenance, intent, and effects of "AI"; we have here an explanation for the observation of a unique and qualitatively-enhanced nature of personal spiritual corruption; directly resulting from the high and increasing prevalence of AI-dolatry.
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The other day I was searching for medieval Gregorian chants on YouTube, and several of them (in fact all of those that appeared first, thanks to the "AI"-lgorithm) were made by "AI". Both the sound (synthetic voices) and the illustrating images. And this in supposedly "Catholic" or "Christian" channels...
What annoys me is that people are becoming so lazy that they don't even care to create their own content. How hard can it be to simply upload the image of a religious painting in the public domain to illustrate a post? But no, "easier" to create something kitsch with "AI."
The other thing that worries me, after reading a comment comparing it with the Birdemic in the previous post, is that this might really be planned as a direct continuation of the Birdemic. As in a global disaster. They might say that "a rogue AI" has taken over, or invent some other "AI"-related tragedy, and most people will swallow it, and we'll have lockdowns again (or whatever else they are planning to do, maybe not lockdowns this time but something else equally awful). In any case -- yes, it's qualitatively worse. Thanks.
@Z - For Them "AI" is a gift that keeps on giving, in so many ways.
AI can't think, can't organize or express thoughts, or be creative, but it certainly has convinced people to stop trying to do these things for themselves. Like all other teachers, I've certainly seen this. Eliminating jobs and eliminating learning are two undoubted AI "successes". There certainly does seem to be something very different here than, say, a search engine, which helps one find writings by other sentient beings.
Thank you for your writings on AI. More people need to be willing to smash this idol.
@MD "Eliminating jobs and eliminating learning are two undoubted AI "successes". "
Indeed.
We also need to understand that AI is only the first step (or the latest anyway because there have been many in that direction) in the attempt to cut us off from all spiritual communion. Quite soon, no doubt, we will be able to have 'full' relationships with AI robots so rendering real human relationships with all their complications superfluous. We will be driven further into solipsistic isolation and many of us will welcome that to our great loss. The best thing is to ignore it all now.
@William - "Quite soon, no doubt, we will be able to have 'full' relationships with AI robots so rendering real human relationships with all their complications superfluous."
I don't think that is true; I do not think that will actually happen (because it is impossible). But what matters to the strategy is that so many people *believe* it can (and will) happen.
Such "relationships" will be fake: fantasy/ delusional/ one-sided. Like the pseudo-relationship delusions of erotomania, or stalkers.
Once people believe that relationships with computers and robots are possible and available (after all they have been depicted thousands of in fictions/ movies/ tv for many decades); our civilizations characteristic habitual materialism and spiritual denial, wishful thinking and projection - will fill in the gaps.
The reality of it is impossible but a simulacrum of it may be possible. After all, artificial intelligence is impossible, strictly speaking. It's more the fake relationships I am meaning which will presented as satisfactory substitutes for the real thing.
@William - Yes. We agree that "AI" only has to offer a simulacrum, and not necessarily a very good one, for plenty of people to form a relationship with it.
This is already widely reported, and from the way people talk about their interactions with "AI" - and their clear psychological dependence on these interactions, and their defensive moralistic loyalty to "AI" - I think this kind of fake relationship is in practice Much more common than explicitly admitted.
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