Bernie Sanders just created a video to make a point about issues of privacy in AI (a real problem). His supporters on Muskrat's platform came for me when I quote tweeted his post saying, "at this point, Bernie’s job seems to be lobbying for Anthropic."
So I'm going to elaborate on the corporate psyop that has been happening since the beginning of time and how no one seems to learn their lesson.
I don't remember who said this, but it's like telling you to buy Camels instead of Marlboros while claiming to fight tobacco companies. If any politician parrots talking points of a CEO on a funding round, even on the harms of AI systems, you should be worried.
Remember when Altman schmoozed them and newspapers had headlines of him "begging" to be regulated and hailing him as an Oppenheimer figure who is so worried about his own creation 🙄?
That was just last year! https://time.com/7267797/ai-leaders-oppenheimer-moment-musk-altman/.
You don't believe Altman is such a figure but you think Amodei, who insisted that OpenAI use all 10,000 GPUs and train the biggest model possible, when he was there, is such a figure?
In his video, Bernie is literally creating a Claude ad, showing the system as an all knowing being that answers all of his questions. An ad for Anthropic, a company claiming that they can't even confidently say that "Claude isn't conscious".
On another day, we'll discuss why this is happening.
Effective altruists and overall TESCREAL bundle billionaires have infiltrated the labor movement and journalism, offering fellowships with staggering amounts of money like they invested ridiculous amounts of money into these companies claiming to build machine gods.
Money for the "problem" and money for "the solution."
Crassus and his fire brigade of slaves.
Set the house on fire > negotiate to buy it for nearly nothing > put the fire out > sell it back at a grossly inflated price.
"First a toy, then a tool then a weapon". The AI Ethics debate is so shot-through with self-dealing I just don't think I want to waste time on it. I will be ethical in congruence with my belief we are all in this together. that as I fare, so also shall our machines be created in our image.
Money for the "problem" and money for "the solution." - that's the literal definition of HyperNormalisation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperNormalisation)
This documentary keeps popping into my head recently, things keep reminding me of it's thread on Technological utopianism.
Still highly relevant 10 years later, and maybe eerily prescient
It's so disappointing to see politicians who should be calling out Trump BS and the simultaneous AI crowd that works to support him so oblivious to the hyperbole. The world and USA needs a younger generation of politicians that are more tech savvy and yet cynical about the industry and its players
As an old guy getting played, it's clear Bernie's judgment and ability to help proactive moves against Republicans and their oligarchs has eroded or he has been compromised.
Bernie's video is what I would call #trojan_ai
#trojan_ai in the sense that the AI discourse disguised as journalism never questions the ethics of the AI and so becomes marketing.
Your Camel/Marlboro example is a good examplec of the "any publicity is good publicity" idea.
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