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I thought the sarcasm was obvious enough. Guess not.

Sounds like a good reason to seize greater control of the Internet other people’s computers.

Then we spy on our own citizens anyways. We just use 5E as an excuse if we ever find anything we want to use publicly.

Better force everyone to keep installing backdoors for law enforcement. To keep everyone safe.

Not much of a discussion when you’re just dismissing what I’ve said by presenting a completely fictional version of reality.

If you honestly believe that, you’re incredibly naive. If anything, they wouldn’t want to share what they have with those they see as idiots.

I’m not pretending that the LLMs we get aren’t terrible. Just wondering if there aren’t better AI being used by others more quietly.

What are the odds that all these stories about LLMs being terrible, and the crappy publicly available ones, are all just to convince us that they suck so nobody notices when actually good AI gets used?

Like a limited ‘fake’ world edifice structured through legal fictions like money, debt and contracts, which attempts to assert that it is significantly more powerful and pervasive than it actually is, through stories like The Matrix, to instill a sense of hopelessness upon anyone who even considers not submitting to it.

Not anymore!

You get to feel like a super cool insider in a shadowy club secretly ruling over all the foolish little people who aren’t clever enough to be deemed worthy of receiving dark money!

Business people don’t care what you want. They care exclusively about what they have to to do get you to accept what they want.

I mean, I do personally think that’s an issue, but I think that it’s an issue which has been thoroughly astroturfed so any time someone attempts to use that term to succinctly describe the issue it evokes an antagonistic paradigm which prevents discussion of the actual issues. That’s actually a great example of how social media and journalism can be used to pre-program the conversation, to prevent real discourse.

The important thing to recognize is that the types of people who do these things will gladly use any issue at all which happens to serve their purposes. Treating the world as though certain issues are always good and other issues are always bad will make you easy prey for those such as them.

There’s been an aggressive push against gaming recently. Check all the recent Steam news.

I mean, it’s just musing on what is possible. Certainly the motive exists to explore whatever is possible.

Hell, if you want conspiracy: They could train a generation from a specific culture on heroic epics, then train another generation of the global population with grievance porn to create villains.

You’re thinking in far too limited a scope. It can be as basic as implanting certain ideas about how tasks are performed through the structure of gameplay.

Hell, it could just be implanting newly developed subliminal messaging through background acoustics, or adjusting the general mood of themes.

It’s literally propaganda straight out of the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook, and useful idiots repeat it for them.

Be careful of joining in on overly-broad generalizations.

The missing piece that very few people want to touch is that, at the heart of the industry (as with all industry), they intend to use games as a mechanism for social control. That becomes extremely difficult if they can’t change and adjust everything in response to modern issues.

I’d posit that the people who don’t want their files scanned, and the people suing Apple are not the same people.

Of course it does. You can’t use a physical token if nobody will accept it as payment.