thesohoriots

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Liberals are honest that they pursue electoral politics to improve capitalism. DSA presents the same electoral reformism as socialism. Congressional reactionaries love to smear DSA, knowing its rejoinder will be safely anti-communist. It’s a win-win for capitalist politics.

As I understand it there’s a distinction between analytical AI (the stuff that can help identify tumors and such), and LLMs which are now effectively the catchall “AI” term — your ChatGPTs and Claudes. I honestly have no problem with machine learning if it can be applied, as aforementioned. in research and validated by researchers to improve medical outcomes. That’s a wonderful thing.

On the other hand, I used ChatGPT 3.5(?) for about a day when it first went public. I’m sure the evangelists will scream at me about how much it’s improved, how it brings us closer to God or some shit, etc., but I quickly realized its core issues from a rhetorical standpoint and still stand by my assessment. It knows how to say things, and pretty well. It sort of knows what to say, only as far as you can prompt it correctly. It has no fucking idea why it says what it says, short of what it was told to say by the user and constructing plausible sentences.

I see it as these three prongs, just ramping up with each new release. Slap some more glitter on it. Call it “general intelligence” now. Enjoy your own brainrot echoing from your phone. Let’s circle back.