The 5 most disturbing ways AI is currently being used
Artificial Intelligence — it’s brilliant, isn’t it? I love AI so much I want ChatGPT to adopt me and tell me it’s proud. That’s the kind of innocent wholesome experience I want with AI, anyway. Unlike most of the disturbing things your average rotter would get up to if given the chance.
And that’s the problem, they have had the chance. In fact, at this very minute, beyond the surface layer applications of AI being used in software like Midjourney or Meta MusicGen to make us all feel like Pablo Picasso or Rick Rubin, there are nefarious forces at play doing all sorts of wrong with the same tech that powers even Microsoft’s lovable AI chatbot, Bing Chat.
So readers, let’s hop aboard the Good Ship Laptop and sail our way down a river of doom and gloom, chowing down on black pills as if they were Skittles along the way. Let’s do away with the glamor and gloss that is our supposed co-existence with AI.
Instead, we should face up to how likely it is that our digital deities aren’t here to carve out a human utopia, but a putrid dystopia of crime, violence, blackmail, surveillance, and profiling as we slog our way through the wanton misery that is the most disturbing ways AI is currently being used.
1. Omni-present surveillance
We fundamentally misunderstand the limits of the Large Language Models (LLMs) we are currently interacting with.
According to texperts/techsperts Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin of the Center for Humane Technology, if there was any hope that we as a species would view the book Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning and not an instruction manual it likely just died.
The pair spoke earlier in the year about how we fundamentally misunderstand the limits of the Large Language Models (LLMs) we are currently interacting with in software like Google Bard or ChatGPT. We presume that by language we mean human language, when in reality, to a computer, everything is a language. This has allowed researchers to train an AI on brain scan images and have the AI begin to loosely decode the thoughts in our head with impressive accuracy.
A future where privacy is no longer an option. Potentially,…
