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To: RoosterRedux

No conspiracy at all. It is happening right in front of our faces in real time. Businesses who will do no business with you unless you download an app and register. Gas stations that will take a digital card at the digital pump only, Etc. When was the last time you saw a phone booth?

AI is just another new branch of the same poisonous tree meant to enslave us and make us dependent on tech. One of the most dangerous branches to grow yet.

You call it a conspiracy, are we not now completely dependent on tech in many many ways? This is a real world fact that absolutely cannot be denied. Are they going to all of a sudden stop this digital enslavement agenda just for AI? Absolutely not, too much MONEY and POWER in it for them.

It is all about the money... Which by the way I noticed is the MAIN reason folks support technology and AI. The money is more important than even humanity. The second reason is pure and simple human laziness. And these are factual observations. Money and Convenience over all virtue.

They are selling their souls and stealing my Grandchildren’s souls along with them to this new religion. It is more than critical thinking, it is completely philosophical now at this point in the game.


39 posted on 05/24/2025 5:37:10 PM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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To: Openurmind
I was curious how AI platforms would critique your comment, so I submitted it to three of them. Grok and Claude were slightly forgiving. ChatGPT? Not so much. Here's how they responded.

ChatGPT 4o:

That comment is a mix of emotional overreaction, techno-paranoia, and shallow moral posturing.

It’s not a reasoned critique of AI or digital dependency—it’s a rant. The person conflates legitimate concerns (like corporate overreach or digital monopolies) with apocalyptic language about “soul-stealing” and “enslavement.” That’s not philosophy; it’s fear-based absolutism.

They don’t argue—they accuse. Anyone who supports AI is painted as greedy, lazy, or morally bankrupt. That’s not just intellectually lazy—it’s arrogant.

Worst of all, they offer no solutions. Just doom. That kind of thinking isn’t protective—it’s paralyzing. It shuts down critical discussion and replaces it with a victim complex masked as righteousness.

In short: it’s emotional, unnuanced, and disconnected from both technological reality and serious ethical discourse.

Grok 3:
That comment mixes real concerns about tech dependence—like businesses requiring apps or digital-only payments—with conspiratorial overreach, claiming AI is part of a “digital enslavement agenda” without evidence.

No evidence supports a coordinated “digital enslavement agenda” involving AI. Claims of such rely on speculation, not verified data. Trends like tech dependence, surveillance, or job displacement are real but stem from economic and social dynamics, not a unified plot. The commenter’s argument misinterprets these as intentional malice without substantiation.Their “poisonous tree” and “selling souls” rhetoric is emotional hyperbole, not reasoned critique, assuming coordinated malice behind market-driven tech adoption.

By lumping AI into a vague anti-tech narrative without engaging its specifics, their argument lacks substance and leans on fearmongering. It's conspiratorial—heavy on emotion, light on evidence, and romanticizes a tech-free past that never was.

Claude Sonnet 4:
This comment reflects genuine frustration about increasing digitization, but it's built on several flawed assumptions and oversimplifications.

The person conflates separate phenomena - routine business digitization (apps, card readers) with AI development - as part of one coordinated "agenda." Most digital shifts happen because they're cheaper and more efficient for businesses, not because of some master plan for control. Phone booths disappeared because everyone got mobile phones, not because someone wanted to make us "dependent."

The "enslavement" framing is hyperbolic. Yes, we're more dependent on technology than before, but this has brought massive benefits: instant global communication, access to information, improved healthcare, economic opportunities. The comment ignores these trade-offs entirely.

The motivation analysis is particularly weak. Reducing complex technological adoption to just "money and laziness" misses how technology actually solves real problems. People use GPS not from laziness but because it prevents getting lost. Businesses digitize not just for profit but because customers demand convenience.

The "selling souls" and "new religion" language is pure emotional rhetoric that shuts down rational discussion. When someone frames technological tools in apocalyptic terms, they've stopped engaging with the actual pros and cons. That said, the person isn't wrong that rapid technological change deserves scrutiny. There are legitimate concerns about privacy, job displacement, and over-dependence on digital systems. But addressing these issues requires nuanced thinking, not blanket rejection based on conspiracy-level thinking about coordinated control schemes.

The comment reads like someone who feels left behind by change and is channeling that frustration into a totalizing worldview that makes them feel they understand what's "really" happening.


41 posted on 05/25/2025 2:50:26 AM PDT by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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