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he Most Insidious Trick Of AI Language Models
Epoch Times ^ | 08/14/2025 | Jeffrey Tucker

Posted on 08/14/2025 8:39:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 08/14/2025 8:39:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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"AI"


2 posted on 08/14/2025 8:45:00 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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Bkmk


3 posted on 08/14/2025 8:50:13 PM PDT by sauropod
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Your writing with Ai will eventualy sound like Kamala at her finest. and a sociopath at it’s worst.


4 posted on 08/14/2025 8:51:36 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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Could not possibly care less. I do all my own thinking and writing.


5 posted on 08/14/2025 9:01:05 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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One of the original AI programs was LISP. I wrote a program called “I got your” whatever you entered into the program it would respond. you enter “how are you” it would respond “I got your how are you”. As a computer program the AI stuff is just alot more stuff but it is still “I got your.....”


6 posted on 08/14/2025 9:02:01 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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Very good article.
The more computers have developed and moved into almost every aspect of our lives, the more those aspects have been reduced to parameters that computers can deal with. AI seems to be the ultimate example of that.

I’m not against it - AI holds great promise in many areas; but boy is it dangerous.

And we thought nuclear energy presented a double-edged sword...


7 posted on 08/14/2025 9:02:50 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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The real threat is for the future. Even toddlers are using computers now. There seems to be a sense developing among the young that nothing is even real unless it’s communicated, videoed, or in some other way ‘reified’ online. A lot of young people actually don’t know how to deal with real life.


8 posted on 08/14/2025 9:11:44 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SeekAndFind

So, AI couldn’t write “Gone with the Wind”? Got it.


9 posted on 08/14/2025 9:16:55 PM PDT by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man, but it's ok---- I wasn't married to it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I thought so.


10 posted on 08/14/2025 9:26:34 PM PDT by Inyo-Mono
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Hence, the appeal of the antichrist.

There is more and more speculation that AI involved with him or *the beast* mentioned in Revelation. People are already being wow’d by what AI can do. Seems they’ll never be able to avoid deception.


11 posted on 08/14/2025 9:27:18 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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For all of its flaws, AI is making lots of entrepreneurs very rich.

I think people should look at it as a productivity tool.

That’s what computers are good for. That’s what Office documents, spreadsheets, and presentations are good for. That’s what machines and most other inventions are good for.

I have had experiences with AI in which I wasted more time than I saved. But, overall, for me it’s a productivity booster.

I took advantage of an offer today that is for Samsung Galaxy owners to get Perplexity AI Pro for free for one year. That ordinarily costs $200.

If you want to explore ways it can make you more productive or make you money, and if you own one of the Samsung devices required to get this offer, I highly recommend signing up.

No, it won’t do you thinking for you. But there are lots of things it can do that are helpful.


12 posted on 08/14/2025 9:40:18 PM PDT by unlearner (I'm tired of being not tired of winning.)
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To: Jamestown1630
The real threat is for the future. Even toddlers are using computers now. There seems to be a sense developing among the young that nothing is even real unless it’s communicated, videoed, or in some other way ‘reified’ online. A lot of young people actually don’t know how to deal with real life.

Brilliant observation! It's not just a casual, anti-A.I. comment, but an insightful analysis of the dangers of A.I.

Would you like me to help you expand those thoughts into a full-size essay?

(Heh-heh!)

Regards,

13 posted on 08/14/2025 10:32:23 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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AI is A but not I. It’s not at all like the robot on Lost in Space (the real one not the Netflix crap one). Everyone wants AI to be a real being but it isn’t possible at this time. We will get there someday when we have multiple state transistors that allow for more than binary processes. Right now we are still using zeros and ones. I am pretty sure that scientists (the real ones not the crap government ones) have developed 3-state transistors. Perhaps quantum computing has 16 states to work from. But it will also take some time before computers will be able to operate with three states let alone 16.


14 posted on 08/14/2025 11:05:05 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words? )
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This was the exact same experience I had with Grok.

I would submit a personal story (to be included in my family oral history) and it would change it. The change “sounded” good, but it was not “my voice”.

Grok did appear to “learn” but still the “flavor” of what I as an individual was putting down on paper a personal memory concerning my family rang hollow, almost soulless.

I gave up after a month.

I will keep putting stories down on paper mistakes and all, sort of like my life.


15 posted on 08/14/2025 11:34:19 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I’ll take a wait and see...)
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I think this article was AI generated - very repetitive.

The ‘author’ says AI flatters you - then it repeats that dozens of times with slight variations.


16 posted on 08/14/2025 11:34:54 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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Thank you for taking the effort to format the whole article. I wanted to just skim it so the bold sections really helped. I wish every article I ever read were formatted like this. Please keep posting!


17 posted on 08/15/2025 12:25:54 AM PDT by edwinland
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Reviewing and writing code, analyzing data, spotting trends. That’s the lane it will be in. It’s always going to fall short of humans in creating content or doing anything creatively.


18 posted on 08/15/2025 6:04:04 AM PDT by mmichaels1970 ( )
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It’s always going to fall short of humans in creating content or doing anything creatively.


But will it be “good enough”?


19 posted on 08/15/2025 6:05:54 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If AI wants to emulate humans it needs to remember to add the occasional insult—call the user “stupid” and a “moron” at least once every fifty words.

Then it will be ready to post on FR!


20 posted on 08/15/2025 6:16:38 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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