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Supporting an Australian creator (Youtube:Struthless) for speaking out against AI. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 week ago by DarkCloud@lemmy.world to c/australia@aussie.zone
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[โ€“] eureka@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's not what I said. I said it can't do its advertised job, which is very different from its real job.

  • This tool is obviously about building control. That's why it has these investors. We both understand that. "It is a censorship tool"
  • However, the tool's marketing lies and gives the public a false premise for its existence - they claim this tool is made to combat misinformation by determining real truth. We both understand it's not made to do that. But perhaps, there could be readers in the general public who take it at face value and might believe that's the real purpose.
  • My point is that, it barely even tries at building that false premise. I'm not saying it won't be able to do its real job and censor dissent, if it gains institutional power.
[โ€“] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think the CIA and major banks ARE "institutional power". I think your viewpoint is a little lagging (which is fine, it's a lot to take in).

It's a reputation destroying tool.

It's advertised job does not matter if it can do it's really job... If you understand it's real job, why are pretending it has to achieve anything else to continue existing?

Extortion, control of narrative, politic construction and destruction. That's power.

So like I've been suggesting, your optimism seems misguided.

The whole Tech VC model is to fund things for decades until they've captured the market (and killed the competition)... But in this case we're talking the complete capture of dissent. I believe the situation is far worse than you're allowing yourself to see.

It doesn't matter if it can't do it's advertised job, it will still be fully funded (by investor money) for decades and escalating it's stock price, not to mention destroying the world in a very socially violent, politically suicidal way.

Which is the point: Peter Thiel is part of a xenophobic Catholic cult (based on the works of Rene Girad), called the "The rad trads". They believe causing an apocalypse will bring back Jesus Christ.

I'm not joking. This is a Hitler type situation. Many many people are likely to die.

P.S Thiel was raised in Swakopmund, South Africa, a Nazi town that praised Hitler.