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Cake day: February 28th, 2025

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  • I admire your positivity. I do not share it though, because from what I have seen, because even if there are open weights, the one with the biggest datacenter will in the future hold the most intelligent and performance model.

    Very similar to how even if storage space is very cheap today, large companies are holding all the data anyway.

    AI will go the same way, and thus the megacorps will and in some extent already are owning not only our data, but our thoughts and the ability to modify them.

    I mean, sponsored prompt injection is just the first thought modifying thing, imagine Google search sponsored hits, but instead it’s a hyperconvincing AI response that subtly nudges you to a certain brand or way of thinking.

    Absolutely terrifies me, especially with all the research Meta has done on how to manipulate people’s mood and behaviour through which social media posts they are presented with

















  • The bad thing about those kind of shows, is that while most people see that as a warning, and something to avoid.

    Some people immediately start charting a path to how to make it a reality, and sometimes those people are very very smart and can chart a path that might take decades.

    I say this while on the toilet, writing on a device that has cameras both front and back, always on microphones and location sensors, and facial recognition and 3D scanning equipment.

    When the personalized condom ads start popping up, I will only be slightly annoyed.