everyone talks about ai “assistants” like it’s some whipsmart loyal sidekick, but they’re actually this guy: a scheming, sycophant vizier who whispers delusions in your ear and is actually working for another master

@camwilson yep. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.

It’s modern day Sisyphus. Bros whispering the words of endless riches into the guessing machine, only to run out of daily credits and realise they are right back where they started.

@camwilson

and in both instances, all the manipulation flows to palantir

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Think the lords of commerce are smart enough to figure that out? 😸

@camwilson
Steven Miller as #Wormtongue! Love it!
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@camwilson There is definitely one of these in Albo’s office.

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Ouch! Truth hurts... 😐

@camwilson not as close an analogue as corpo social media and denethor with the palantir, but yeah
@camwilson excellent, sublime analogy. nice post, neighbor.

@camwilson

I never thought about it that way. I am looking forward to becoming again the Theoden that can raise Herugrim 😎

@camwilson Somewhere was a post screenshot of someone posting "'I asked ChatGPT! I asked Grok!' Oh yeah? Well I asked Gandalf and he said he had not passed through fire and death to bandy words with witless worms."
@camwilson that is so brilliant 😂
@camwilson Much of our world's leadership has the Mechanical Grima whispering in their ears.
@camwilson Shoggoth with Smiley Face seems like a more apt metaphor every day

@camwilson

"I used AI to....", is nothing more than, "Listen I'm not an asshole but....", for the 21st Century.

#FuckAI

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A scene from the Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, in the second film The Two Towers, a dark and slimy character called Gríma Wormtongue is whispering to old looking and white bearded and haired King Théoden's ear, who is possessed by Saruman and weakened and manipulated in the king's court in Rohan.

@rolle @camwilson thank you for this work❤️

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Therefore you should install it locally. If you don’t know how: don’t use it.

@camwilson except he's also on crystal meth
@camwilson and a bit creative or intelligent vizier, just more of an a hole bully

@camwilson

"Actually working for another master" is a point I haven't seen made before, and it seems very important.

If you're using an AI and don't know the rules it is operating under - you may well be the product.

@camwilson

The opposite of "assist" is "hinder".

They're “AI hindrances”

@AnnaAnthro

@camwilson without alttext this post makes no sense at all. @MeaningfulBits