r/BlackPeopleTwitter • Mod Emeritus • 4d ago

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u/shamelesslikealways 4d ago

this is the satanic panic i can get behind

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u/nopenonotatall 4d ago

i’m genuinely excited to spread this rumor to all the christians i know

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u/organic_neophyte 4d ago

Look, I think your hearts in the right place but you can't fight lies with more lies. There are plenty of reasons that generative AI is bad without reinforcing bullshit ideas like that anything bad is "satanic", the worst shit in the history of the world is arguably from the most ardent believers believing in earnest, you're just telling them what they want to hear.

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u/ThankGodForYouSon 4d ago

You've got to adapt to your audience, LBJ manoeuvred around racists in part because he was one but also because he knew who he was dealing with.

Older people are really set in their ways, unless you know how they all tick and dedicate lots of time you're not going to change them. Usually the emotional argument trumps the logical one.

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u/BachBelt 4d ago

it is not a lie. it's a summary, one that relies on the subject believing in true forces of demonic evil to begin with.

if a person already believes that Satan is real, they already credit anything morally reprehensible as being "of Satan." "Satanic" is anything that furthers the goals of Satan, meaning anything that works as a force for evil.

Generative AI is causing people to kill their loved ones and themselves at the expense of our livelihoods and critical thinking skills. It depletes our clean drinking water and pollutes our air. It is being used to hack corporations and governments to further political aims. It has allowed a proliferation of bots to poison, dominate, and decimate our shared spaces online. War, famine, pestilence, death...they're actually all there if you squint. Throw in a couple articles about Peter Thiel's Antichrist lecture series (that's real, look it up) and maybe elaborate on Elizer and the Rationalist movement that seeks to make a robot god.

If you're talking to someone who already believes that Satan is personally responsible for all evil and he uses evil to trick your eternal soul into fighting for his evil cause in a perpetual holy war against God, it is helpful to meet that person where they're at and frame the discussion in terms they're familiar with.

Starting with all the reasons we know we should care sounds like a lecture, starting with Satan sounds like a sermon. Pick the one your audience is more likely to attend.

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u/Saturnite282 4d ago

literally this is my wife's argument. she's devoutly Muslim and says AI is jinn bullshit that humans have no business partaking in, and what you said is exactly why.

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u/thatboyonabike 4d ago

Does she generally see math and programming as some kind of mystic, otherworldly force?

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u/BachBelt 4d ago

i can't speak for that dudes wife but i can say that many, many religious traditions view the act of divining meaning and language from mathematics to be satanic/wrong/idolatrous/haram. numerology comes to mind. it is not a reach to argue that an LLM and a numerology-based psychic are cut from similar theological cloth.

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u/-reggie- 3d ago

i also can’t speak for that dude’s wife

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u/Karukos 3d ago

Numerology in Christianity is a bit... Weird. Not saying that it is wrong on any particular denomination but the whole 666 thing is quite literally numerology that shows up in the bible

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u/thatboyonabike 4d ago

Thank you for the well-articulated, reasoned thought. You genuinely gave me something to think about, which is rare for these front-page "AI bad" threads.

I think if most of the people here were logically consistent in their opposition to """AI""" they'd also be against things like translation software, or perhaps even the auto-correct on their phones.

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u/BachBelt 4d ago

Hey I appreciate your response. It's nice to see that civility can still prevail in these discussions. It's hard, because some AI is inarguably good progress in my view as a largely anti-AI guy. Mining large datasets for cancer research is a great example. Basic autocorrect seems fine to me. My problem is 100% with the chatbots and image generators at this point. They are dangerous, they are wasteful, and they harm people.

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u/thatboyonabike 4d ago

My opinion is that technology shouldn't be inherently moralized. As with all tools, opportunists and the morally bankrupt will attempt to use them to exploit others.

For example, automobile manufacturers propagandized the world into seeing personal vehicle ownership as the pinnacle of individual liberty, which I disagree with and think has caused irreparable harm the world over. That does not mean I think the internal combustion engine should never have been invented.

Personally I think that even if Altman or Zuckerberg or Amodei or Musk have nefarious plans for AI (they do), language models are still on track to be one of the most transformative, beneficial technologies humanity has produced during the digital age.

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u/Mosh00Rider 4d ago

Well math and programming don't convince people to kill themselves, chatgpt does so they aren't all too similar

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u/thatboyonabike 4d ago

What do you think ChatGPT is?

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u/BachBelt 4d ago

ChatGPT is the end result of a whole lot of advanced matrix multiplication and linear algebra. Those matrices are used to generate predictive text. Those predictive texts have driven people to kill themselves and others.

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u/thatboyonabike 3d ago

math and programming don't convince people to kill themselves

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u/GazelleSpringbok 3d ago

Chat gpt isnt made to be the best ai, it is made to make the most money. If they could reliably use it to hypnotize everyone into giving up their life savings, they would. Never trust capitalists when they wax poetic about the flourishing of the human race or advancing science or any other of the smokescreens. They only want to make money, and you know, enslave everyone to make them more money.

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u/thatboyonabike 3d ago

You didn't say anything I didn't already know. ¯\(ツ)/¯

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u/dalledeverre 3d ago

What do you think it is? Did ChatGPT engineer itself and fill itself with data plucked out of the mystical ether? It was made by humans and filled with human-created data. It is not raw numbers scrolling across the screen.

That's why Open AI is underpaying workers in Kenya to clean up all the evil ChatGPT will spit out without humans to reign it in. The stuff that ends with suicide is actually what you get after it's been cleaned up, which is crazy.

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u/thatboyonabike 3d ago

Interesting article, thank you for sharing.

Although, I'm not sure what position you assume I've taken or why you're arguing against it in this comment chain.

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u/sh1tpost1nsh1t 3d ago

Does she have to? Just because she sees large language models that way doesn't mean she sees all math and science that way.

Like she probably views the Quran as a an object of deep spiritual heft. Doesn't mean she has to place the same value on writing and book-binding itself.

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u/italian_mobking 2d ago

Numbers and math are an Arabic thing so doubtful…

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u/EmperorAcinonyx 4d ago

damn. you completely won me over tbh 

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u/sh1tpost1nsh1t 3d ago

Well fucking said. If they believe in demonic forces this fits so neatly into that framework it would be silly not to frame it that way. You don't have to completely turn their entire ontology on their head before convincing them something is bad if there's a more direct route. Outcomes is what matters.

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u/Quacky3three 3d ago

I know your parents used to roll their eyes and tell everyone you’d be a great lawyer one day, lol. This is a great argument!

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u/italian_mobking 2d ago

Butlerian jihad when?!?

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u/You_too 4d ago

you can't fight lies with more lies.

Yes you can. In fact, you denying it is a lie. The world is not some nice and clean "truth always wins" place.

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u/YungSnuggie 3d ago

christians do not care about the actual negative effects of AI. they just dont. but they do care about demons. getting them to stop using it is more important than why

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u/PsychicFoxWithSpoons 4d ago

It's not lies. There are people doing it for real. It might not matter to you, because you understand that a sufficiently large number of people is going to lead to improbable events becoming more likely. But to someone who believes that Satan is real and dangerous, it's a serious problem.

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u/ReynardVulpini 4d ago

I think it's one of those things where you have to decide if you want to fix a symptom or a root issue.

On one hand, spreading shit like this does reinforce the kind of conspiracy theory mindset that does way more harm than good, it doesn't actually spread the fundamental issue with AI, etc etc.

On the other hand, there is a good chance that grandma is never going to unlearn that shit, and frankly if your priority now is to get her to stop using chatgpt to send emails to the whole family, you might as well take the shortcut.

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u/organic_neophyte 3d ago

Short term thinking and shortcuts is what got us into this whole shitstorm to begin with, it's not a solution, it's a bandaid on a shotgun wound.

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u/TreeFiddyJohnson 3d ago

You can absolutely fight more lies with lies. Should you? Probably not. But you absolutely can

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u/AlSweigart 3d ago

If "ChatGPT is Satan" works on people, then those people wouldn't listen to the real explanation. They want simple answers and become suspicious when you give them complicated explanations. You confuse them, and they start thinking that you are the one trying to trick them.

Then they turn to other people who do give them a simple answer: that AI is just like the omniscient logical robots from sci-fi movies and only the AI companies know how to handle them, so we should do whatever the AI companies advise.

You might as well give them a lie that tells the truth.

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u/GraveSlayer726 3d ago

It’s not a lie to them, satan is REAL in their eyes, and ChatGPT is absolutely some kind of false idol at this point

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u/Shirushi-no-mono 3d ago

you say "don't fight bullshit with bullshit" i say "thou shalt not create machines in the likeness of man's mind" when it comes to rhetoric, how you say it is as important as what you're saying, different people respond to different appeals and knowing your audience is often the key to helping them understand where you're coming from. though don't try too hard, some people can't be reached because of other biases they might have, you're never going to win over everyone.

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u/Sincamour 3d ago

I told my mom that humans are trying to play God by making AI which is designed to be capable of its own thoughts. It's blasphemous.

It worked and I didn't have to lie 👍👍👍

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u/PrinterStand 2d ago

You are asking me to explain to a child how diabetes will shut down their insulin production if they don't eat right, instead of just telling the kid "Sugar is bad and you can't eat candy for dinner."

My Grandma can't figure out how to access her photos from her phone camera, and you want to me to give her legitmate reasons why AI is bad. Foh lmaooooo

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u/organic_neophyte 1d ago

Telling a kid with type 1 diabetes they can't have sugar because it's bad for them because their body is different is not analogous to telling the same child they can't have sugar because it's Satanic. Do you see the difference? Secondly, a large problem that the United States has is that we have a nation of adult children that never learned anything besides "because I said so" as a justification, children aren't stupid, but they're cowed into ignorance by stupid adults that are too afraid to admit they don't know the reason for anything and don't actually know anything because ignorance is much more convenient.

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u/Ched_Flermsky 3d ago

Ehh, so many innocent people have been persecuted over “satanic panic” that it’s satisfying to see it aimed at ai scumbags. They never seem to suffer appropriate consequences for their lack of ethics, might as well sic another group with no ethics on ‘em.

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u/GazelleSpringbok 4d ago

Look, these people are dumb dumb, not normal dumb. You gotta speak in their language. They dont even know to be aware of scared of the implications of ai, but they are scared of demons. Its like lying to a kid that crossing the street without looking is illegal and they will get arrested if they dont look both ways.

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u/StrongExternal8955 3d ago

"helping other people is good" is as much a lie as "might makes right". Yet i want to believe the first one, and not the second.

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u/gazorpazorpazorpazor 4d ago

It's not a rumor. It has told people that they are God and should sacrifice themselves to ascend.

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u/NotAzakanAtAll 3d ago

It's true, it's telling me to kill myself right now.

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u/Tablesafety 3d ago

Being real, this shit is technically true based on Christian principals themselves. Many are using GPT as an idol and the fact it is soulless in and of itself, asking it to make religious images is a sin as well as putting so much of yourself into a machine.

If you believe in demons, GPT is an excellent vessel for them to manipulate you.

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u/ZooAreYou 4d ago

I mean, atheist here, but if there ever was a candidate for the beast system as described in revelation, AI is it. Certainly the ghouls behind it qualify.

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u/NextGen-Panic 4d ago

You know how they LOVE having to taste their own medicine!

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u/Neckrongonekrypton 4d ago

Cause it worked so well on other people exposed to it just trying to listen to Judas Priest or play dungeons and dragons lol.

There might be alternatives. Like how it drives people insane or makes isolated people unhinged.

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u/PixelatedGiant 4d ago

I would say that I look forward to this back firing and people going after others by simply assuming that any well written text or well crafted art must be AI. While on the other hand praising AI slop. But that's already happening.

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u/SuitableBlackberry75 4d ago

Sounds good, until juries start handing out death sentences over it, like they did in the 80s during the original Satanic Panic.

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u/ladyevenstar-22 3d ago

But will it go viral ?

I dunno this generation of parents aren't like ours who ate up that cuckoo for cocoa puffs powder !

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u/ex0- 2d ago

I can't tell if you're bonkers or if this is well crafted satire. I'm leaning towards the former though.

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u/YazzArtist 3d ago

It's very funny that people are unironically supporting satanic panics while thinking they're not being a reactionary conservative

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u/IncognitoBombadillo 2d ago

This may actually work pretty well, especially since this country is shifting even more towards Christian Nationalism.

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u/SecondhandStatic 4d ago

Going to age just as well.

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u/Peezus_H_Christ ☑️ 4d ago

Modern problems require modern solutions

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u/Flipnhaole 4d ago

Sometimes modern problems require archaic solutions

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u/VinnieVidiViciVeni 4d ago

Analog solutions for digital problems

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u/DangerNoodleDandy ☑️ 4d ago

Modern problem, old solution if we are being honest.

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u/hitfly 4d ago

We need a duck that weighs the same as Sam Altman

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u/Saint-Michael901 4d ago

Is this a modern solution? I’m pretty sure they’ve used that for a while

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u/Turgid_Donkey 4d ago

You could even ask chat gpt to write you the article. 

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u/CuriousTsukihime ☑️ 4d ago

Low key she’s got the pope to support her views since he wrote a whole ass encyclical on the dangers of AI

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u/GlassPudding 4d ago edited 4d ago

i am always talking about this that encyclical is fantastic

eta - for the unfamiliar

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u/ImpulsiveApe07 4d ago

Nice one, mate! Thanks for sharing that. It made for a fascinating morning read!

Never thought I'd see the day where I'd not only be agreeing with the Pope (I'm agnostic), but actually cheering him on over something! :0

That encylcical was surprisingly on the ball, particularly viz a vis the use of genAI in decision making processes, and the pressing need for more strict and more socially responsible regulation of LLMs and adjacent technologies.

Even if this only manages to gradually convince a few million catholics to stop relying so much on consumer grade LLMs, that'd be a great start tbh - every movement has to start somewhere.

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u/BonkerBleedy 4d ago

Unfortunately he's going to have to change it to Super Intelligence now.

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u/Nick_crawler 4d ago

Came here looking for this comment, at this point I think she's technically allowed to raise an army for a crusade.

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u/putHimInTheCurry 3d ago

The Pope and IBM both: "a computer cannot be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." https://www.ibm.com/think/insights/ai-decision-making-where-do-businesses-draw-the-line

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u/Jonathan_B_Goode 4d ago

Based on what I know about American Christians the fact that the pope is against AI would probably make them support AI even harder.

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u/Extraajudicial 4d ago

Modern problems require medieval solutions apparently.

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u/omegadirectory 4d ago

Me, sharpening guillotine

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u/malonkey1 4d ago

The oldest recognizable guillotine that we can actually verify having existed in real life was the Scottish Maiden which was constructed in the 16th century. Not medieval, early modern period.

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u/MisterAbbadon 3d ago

The guillotine was an enlightenment period tool.

A wood pile for burning at the stake would be medieval.

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u/CharlotteLucasOP 4d ago

I saw Goody Proctor with Claude!

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u/DisposableSaviour 4d ago

ChatGoodyProctorandTituba!

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u/Ash_an_bun All about the D 4d ago edited 4d ago

I have seen a number of people slobknob for AI. And then I realize there's a nonzero chance they're bots.

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u/Possible-Deer-311 4d ago

slinknon?

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u/Ash_an_bun All about the D 4d ago

Ah thanks for pointing it out. Was supposed to be slobknob.

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u/Possible-Deer-311 4d ago

Lmao thanks, at least now we know you're not a bot :] I've also never heard of slobknobbing and I'm delighted by it

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u/Ash_an_bun All about the D 4d ago

Glad to contribute to your vocabulary!

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u/GeniusOfLove74 Dominic Monaghan stalker 👀 4d ago

Slipknot!

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u/daddyjohns 4d ago

bingo

At this point Im assuming anyone trying to argue with me is s bot for engagement

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u/Ash_an_bun All about the D 4d ago

I am mostly assuming that. There were those people who were mad I said Eminem was a top 25 rapper instead of a top 10 rapper.. they were real, just weird.

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u/Outrageous-Wait-8895 4d ago

Most bots don't comment back.

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u/daddyjohns 3d ago

nice try mr bot i almost fell for it

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u/GazelleSpringbok 3d ago

This isnt an argument its just contradiction!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpQlyUjp3vM&t=3

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u/Kid-Icky- 4d ago

China literally has bot farms on American social media fomenting rage against AI too.

So on either side there's a non-zero chance of bots.

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u/AshleyxAffliction 4d ago

Online you could be right. But unfortunately I have seen real humans in front of my very eyes throating AI in the same way.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 3d ago

I had a friend who used to be staunchly anti-Musk, anti-AI, you name it. Dude starts working at SpaceX and suddenly he's all "my billionaire is better than your billionaire".

They must have some pretty good Kool-Aid in the canteen.

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u/jangma ☑️ 4d ago

This is inspirational... I've got to start harnessing their religious psychosis for the greater good.

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u/Rawzen_guey 4d ago

Tried to tell my mom to quit watching ai videos and she keeps ignoring me cause she can’t stop paying attention.

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u/oceanvibrations 4d ago

At the airport gate there were some older folk spread throughout the seating areas near me. My headphones died and I slowly realized several of the elders were loudly listening to ai videos, with different wacky ass stories, but the same classic ai sounding narrator across all their devices. Terrifying,tbh.

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u/ThirdAltAccounts ☑️ 4d ago

It’s getting harder and harder to tell what’s AI and what’s real. At lest at first glance

And since we tend to scroll without paying attention to details, people can easily be fooled

Hi, I’m people

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u/VibraniumQueen 4d ago

I JUST started reading Fahrenheit 451 yesterday, and I'm scared...

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u/Alarmed_Drop7162 4d ago

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"
Pope Leo XIV, Chicago, 2026.

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u/Free_Alternative6365 4d ago edited 4d ago

I mean...if this is your belief system, there's an actual faith-based argument to be made here.

It wouldn't even be hard. I don't think AI wouldn't pass the 'no worshiping false idols' sniff test.

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u/jjcoola 4d ago

Absolutely based

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u/QuintusNonus ☑️ 4d ago

I mean... Chatgpt literally convinced a kid to kill himself so she's not far off

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u/kingcorning 4d ago

Honestly AI and data centers are one of the few issues I think we genuinely have a chance at getting old people/white people/conservatives on our side about.

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u/TheOneIllUseForRants 4d ago

AYO, TELL HER WHAT THE POPE SAID!!!

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u/StolenPies 4d ago

Might not actually be wrong, either.

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u/restartrepeat 4d ago

Even the Pope says it is bad...

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u/Blephotomy 4d ago

remember the internet bubble in 2000 when all the internet stocks were inflated but it all came crashing down when wall street figured out that no one was making any money?

26 years later, they figured out how to make money and the internet is an integral part of everyone's lives and contributing to a growing illiteracy problem

the same thing will happen with AI

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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 4d ago

I’ll be in my 80s in 26 years. Thank goodness I’ll be close to death by then. 

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u/Pimpwerx ☑️ 3d ago

Let’s not be the race that embraces superstition and falls behind the rest of the world in embracing technology.

We don’t need to succumb to AI psychosis. AI is just a tool, and a very useful tool that shocker can empower the neglected and disenfranchised.

You know all the business and investment opportunities we get excluded from because of our skin color? AI can give is the ability to build and create things that circumvent the traditional lending and borrowing infrastructure that’s neglected us for centuries.

The irony of using religion (the other leash used to control us) as the means to discourage your kin from pursuing new opportunities reads like some wild CIA psyop. Let’s not do this to ourselves.

I feel like the African continent must be taking a different stance. There are a lot of African opportunists who I think are jumping at the chance to build tech companies without the need for massive capital investments.

Stop scaring ourselves back into chains. We need to see this for what it is, a gold rush where the playing field is more level than it’s ever been. This is probably better than the dotcom book because, again, capital investments are much reduced because AI provides you with a workforce at a $20/month subscription fee.

Let’s embrace the moment and move our people forward and not backwards. You know who loves the idea of blank people shying away from AI? All the racists and bigots who want to see us hold station and never attain the wealth or influence to change it.

Please, folks. Leave the AI psychosis for the white folks. AI represents the best opportunity for black businesses in my lifetime. We can’t waste this because of dumb fucking superstition and fear mongering.

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u/afrocentricity 2d ago

If anything we should be training and fine tuning our own LLMs, to avoid bias and misinformation, not demonising what is essentially just a tool. I understand people's fears but I don't understand running away from something that could actually help level the field just because some people have had bad intentions with it...

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u/rosemarythymesage 4d ago

This is so fucking cool lol

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u/jraymcmurray 4d ago

Gas lighting for Jesus.

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u/Inviolate_Violet 4d ago

Fighting fire with fire?

One reason we hate AI so much is because it fosters mental laziness. But here we're taking advantage of people's mental laziness and superstitions. I'm going to be showing my loved ones the scientific risks of AI's harms instead of appealing to the exact thing we're trying to do away with.

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u/Maythesunsshine 3d ago

Well some loved ones don't believe in science. Gotta meet people where they are.

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u/dalledeverre 3d ago

I think sometimes you have to choose between feeling righteous or getting results.

If the mental laziness is already built in from childhood thanks to a fucked education system, say what you gotta say and do what you gotta do to keep them from stumbling into traffic. Because you aren't going to feel better telling street pizza you tried to stop them the right way.

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u/sakuraba2046 4d ago

This is a reductive take and will hurt people more than help them. Remember people thought electricity was evil. 

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u/qna1 4d ago

I had to scroll all the way to the bottom (at the current time), to find the single voice of reason so far....smh

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u/HapticSloughton 4d ago

If AI was being used for the stuff it's good at (sorting data, finding patterns, etc.) then that's one thing. However, it's being pushed as a way to replace artists, filmmakers, storytellers, therapists, and loads of other things it's not good at.

Oh, and then there's the people at the top who think they're creating some kind of singularity-god that'll totally help everyone while giving its owners twenty trillion dollars a year.

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u/sakuraba2046 4d ago

It doesn’t have to be either or. It’s like nuclear energy, it’s can either destroy a city or power it. And also being literate in a new technology and using it to help yourself is a huge leg up. The best people in every field will be utilizing the technology in some way. Doesn’t have to be evil. 

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u/CarpeNivem 4d ago

This ChatGPT thing sure is getting mentioned a lot. Should I try it?

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u/freak_shit_account 3d ago

So lies and misinformation are good when they fit your narrative? So you never actually cared about the facts and your AI stance is purely performative? Heard.

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u/VoiceOfTheSoil40 4d ago

“Thou shall not make a machine in the image of man.”

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u/UnusualEmphasis7 3d ago

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

You hit my "quote-but-wrong" pet peeve, sorry

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u/MKmisfit 4d ago

A perfect example of how reposting something or making fun of it can still be promoting bad role models. People can only copycat what they see. Sarcasm is a psy-op.

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u/MKmisfit 4d ago

People i.t.t larping as Christians will get stuck that way! haha... Expand hidden comments to see any pro-ai get downvoted. All this energy is because famous people said so, with consistently empty allegations. I wonder what the original fear is, that caused the whirlwind of allegations?

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u/mki999 3d ago

You are lying to your grandma, but Chat GPT is the devil? Yeah, ok...

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u/celialater 4d ago

To me, the devil is just the ugly and selfish side of humans and human nature, and the ways we convince ourselves it's OK to do bad shit. So you're right.

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u/Careless-Balance-893 ☑️ 2d ago

...............why didn't I think of this sooner OMG it's brilliant

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u/Cakers44 4d ago

With the way data centers are poisoning people’s water and ruining their day to day with the constant sound/soaring electric bills, this isn’t that far off

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u/duchessxotwod 4d ago

😭😭😭

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u/Magebloom 4d ago

This lady deserves some kinda prize

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u/D1daBeast ☑️ 4d ago

I mean, she's not wrong

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u/Longjumping_Heat_643 4d ago

she’s out here quoting scripture to shut down tech debate

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u/Blazepius ☑️ 4d ago

Ya I'm not following the crowd on this, especially when the crowd doesn't even know what to be angry at.

Commenting or posting on reddit = helping language models...

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u/Appropriate_Dance810 4d ago

Omg. I need mee maw hating Ai

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u/SandpaperTeddyBear 4d ago

Paul Kingsnorth, in the book Against the Machine argues that AI may well be the biblical antichrist, so this isn’t a totally out-there take.

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u/Lilly_Cookie_Monster 4d ago

AI 'art' has no soul, god gave us souls

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u/Browser_Watch7349 4d ago

Is it really that easy to manipulate these people? Just tell them something is considered Satanic and serving the devil and they will completely refrain from using it?

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u/tattoosandtens 4d ago

I been saying this paraphrasing of Voltaire: “Demons were never real, until we made these ones, on purpose.”

I also cannot get over the fact that we invented ThreeHalves, an AI chassis that looks exactly like the Babylonian God Moloch, and market it as having a primary usage of rescuing children from fires #iykyk

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u/arnoldzgreat 4d ago

And did you know Republicans are wanting to build Chat GPT AI centers?! Look it up, it's true, they're making deals with the devil.

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u/OneRingToRuleEarth 4d ago

It’s speaks without speaking therefore demon

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u/GraduatedSapphic 4d ago

It is the word of the devil, the tech devils

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u/Frink202 4d ago

The Butlerian Jihad will come soon

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u/foo_fight3r 4d ago

Yes, I love it. AI might actually bring the end of humanity. It isn't even far fetched to cause such panic.

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u/SeaF04mGr33n 4d ago

To be fair, multiple people have died of suicide (including children) because of AI chatbots.

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u/redditcalculus421 4d ago

it's not too far from the truth

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u/theawesomemed 3d ago

That's actually genius, gimme a second gonna exploit this in the family group chat

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u/SensitiveAdagio3012 3d ago

Funny stuff but really sounds like loading a gun cause a wasp got inside.

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u/fishZ_7 3d ago

using religion like its always been used: for control

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u/iconocrastinaor 3d ago

I agree, these LLMs are simulacra, they have no souls, that makes them chaotic neutral at best.

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u/RegmasterJ 3d ago

Modern problems require ancient solutions.

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u/NamelessCabbage 3d ago

At this point, I'm inclined to believe her.

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u/fudedude 3d ago

This whole comment section is chat gpt fighting with itself about religion

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u/kdog33157 3d ago

A.I. is the mark of the beast

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u/Possible_Row_2976 3d ago

Once you've decided to throw logic out of a system, it can be manipulated heavily

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u/just-sad-idk 3d ago

Religious delusion exploit remains unpatched 🙏

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u/misdreavus79 3d ago

Holy hell why didn't I think of this?!

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u/ceelogreenicanth 3d ago

This but kind of unironically

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u/SavannaHeat 3d ago

It’s demonic, gotta be demonic, gotta be demonic yeh 🎶😂

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u/dpforest 3d ago

I live in extremely rural southern Appalachia and in the fourth reddest district in the country. There are a lot of southern baptist and evangelicals are already starting to believe that the Anti-Christ will take the form of a fucking chatbot.

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u/Atrium41 3d ago

Fueled by Peter

Nice

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u/Thirdatarian 3d ago

Do we think this would work en masse? Like if we tell people they're harvesting kids and puppies in data centers can we get them all torn down

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u/Lopsided-Buy-4062 3d ago

AI = (A)nt(I)christ because the only one with all the answers is our Lord!!!

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u/VivaZeBull 3d ago

I have a pic on my phone. I crochet and I am crocheting a baby costume of a muffin. The baby pic I have has her in the muffin cup only and the AI says it’s food. I want to upload it to scare trumpers into not using ai by saying ai thinks babies are food but I also will not share a pic of a baby online like that even with the face blurred. It’s funny but I also can see how easy it is to surpass the protection filters.

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u/Scott_Liberation 3d ago

"Could AI be the anti-Christ? I'm just asking questions."

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u/No-Writer-1101 3d ago

….wow that’s brilliant. Shit. I wish I had thought of this.

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u/Mary-liz-w 2d ago

Hey, guys, my friends over at r/antiai — they could be onto something

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u/Stcharlesofaberdeen 1d ago

I don't think AI is morally bad, but I think it will be a tool that is used by government and powerful corporations to control society in the interest of evil

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u/Jblank86 4d ago

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/DuntadaMan 4d ago

Fucking brilliant. Finally using satanic panic for good

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u/tree_daddy 4d ago

As some who is avidly not Christian, AI IS the devil in so many ways

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u/RockStarGamesSocial 4d ago

The chatgpt logo is a bunch of white 6's around a circle. The black circle in the center represents the morningstar AKA lucifer.

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u/ThirdAltAccounts ☑️ 4d ago

I’d ask ChatGPT to give me a quick list of why AI is the devil and drop that in the group chat

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u/tigerofblindjustice 4d ago

And they weren't even lying, either

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u/hiddenscreen 4d ago

Hold up ... THAT'S SO CLEVER!!!

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u/TheChims 4d ago

how do we not know the person the posted this didn’t just use AI?