Good luck to the AI that tries to emulate Laz.
Posted on 03/22/2023 1:52:34 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
In thinking on the topics about which I write, I’m blessed to have close friends of spiritually infused intellect and insight who sometimes help inspire commentaries. We speak on the phone occasionally throughout any given week about various topics of possible Bible prophecy import. Thus, it was in conversation this week when such a friend presented a fascinating matter that spawned the title you see above.
My friend of many years is clued in to many things going on within cutting-edge technologies. As a matter of fact, he works closely within some of these technological stratospherics as a consultant during various phases of development. At least that’s the take from my perspective. He tells no more than he can divulge in order to remain faithful to confidentiality.
So, it is with great interest that I pay attention when he brings forth information of an unusual sort. I listen carefully when I sense he wants me to consider those insider developments in writing these articles meant to look into what’s going on while we obviously are closing in on the very end of the age.
When we discuss things along these lines—well, when I mostly listen, because my thinking process can’t always quite engage due to the complexity involved—my friend usually prefaces his comments with, “I don’t quite know what to do with this.” He then says something like, “But isn’t that interesting?”
It usually is most certainly, at the very least, interesting. More like somewhat mystifying and, on occasion, stupefying.
The past week or so, this friend wanted to give me a heads-up on something that had come to his attention that he thought I would find fascinating. He said his information came to him from a familiar intel channel/forum. It is obviously one he holds in high regard.
The intel involves something called The Lazarus Project.
My friend said someone, under the cloak of anonymity, posted, in part, the following on February 23, 2023.
I’m a Meta insider working on Project Lazarus. We’re building an AI that can take over a deceased person’s social media accounts and continue making relevant posts as if that person is still alive. This includes age-progressed photos, interacting with other people’s content and everything else needed so that person continues on in the digital realm after physical death. We were originally told this would be a service offered to people struggling with the loss of loved ones and people who had missing children. Seemed like a decent idea. Things are getting weird now, and I’m having second thoughts about what this is actually going to be used for.
The AI is extremely capable of impersonating people. It doesn’t take as much initial input as one might think to train the AI how a certain person interacts with the digital world. It’s very convincing. An entire island of people could go missing, and with little to no downtime, the AI could take over all of their social media, and the world wouldn’t have a clue that life wasn’t just continuing as usual. A lot of the project is becoming more compartmentalized. Things have taken a dark turn, it feels like. They’ve forbidden communication between people working on different things. Something isn’t right, and I don’t know what I should do. I’m not going to post any personally identifiable information, but I will try to answer questions that won’t expose my role within the project…
The AI came up with stuff that ranged from absolutely hilarious to completely horrifying. I guess that’s pretty accurate for the human experience. That’s more along the lines of a traditional bot, but it goes to a much deeper level than a bot just reposting the current talking point. It’s when we have live data on real individuals that things truly took off. It’s astoundingly accurate with reproducing real individuals.”
Now, my sensitivity meter is the first to start squawking when so-called reports come across cyberspace that seem bogus and/or contrived in any way. If it were not my friend of many years, who interacts within circles to which most of us haven’t entry, I might easily dismiss this insider’s concern as just another fictional creation. However, my friend doesn’t waste his time or mine with fiction. As a matter of fact, I doubt he has read any part of even one of my own novels. So I feel my thinking along these lines is worthwhile for us to consider.
My friend acknowledges that anything coming across even closely guarded, private communications can be of false origin. It has been my experience and observation through these many years, however, that his sense of what has credence and what doesn’t is exquisitely keen. Here are some of his thoughts about this Lazarus Project matter:
1) The project has a biblically significant name: Lazarus;
(2) Lazarus is said to be very good at impersonating people;
(3) Lazarus is supposed to be strong enough to pass the Turing Test;
(4) Meta is developing Lazarus to mimic the missing, dead, or otherwise unavailable; and
(5) Meta is developing Lazarus under extreme secrecy (small, compartmentalized teams under NDA).
Regarding his reference to the Turing test, a mathematician/cryptographer/pioneering computer scientist by the name of Alan Turing developed in 1950 what he called “the imitation game” but what is now better known as the Turing test. It is a widely accepted test of the power of AI. The Turing test involves two human beings and a machine (computer) having AI. One human being serves as an interrogator. While the other human being and the machine are located out of the interrogator’s sight, the interrogator is tasked with interacting with the other human being and the machine, and discerning from those interactions, which is the machine and which is the human being.
The machine passes the test if the human is unable to discern between the two. A machine passing the test is known as a “Turing machine.” Passing the Turing test does not mean that the machine is as intelligent as the human being, only that the machine appears in that interaction to be as intelligent as the human being. The Turing test is not the only test of AI, but it is by far the best-known.
Even were the posts false, Lazarus is plausible. First, Mark Zuckerberg has publicly announced that Meta will focus on major AI development. Second, Facebook’s user base has been seriously eroding, meaning that Facebook is in desperate need of content to retain and encourage its remaining users; AI is well-suited to generate this content. Third, with the World Economic Forum and World Health Organization working hard to create and conceal mass casualties, simulating an enduring social media presence by the departed would help. Fourth, the powers that be would be strongly motivated to conceal an act of God that resulted in the sudden disappearance of many millions of people.
From this, I gather that the purpose of Lazarus is to cover the mass disappearance or death of people due to one or a very few major events. It may not be able perfectly to conceal the absence of people, but it probably can conceal their absence for a short time and should at least create confusion and doubt and provide the basis of an official narrative that the event or events did not occur. It’s intriguing and plausible.
My friend and I frequently discuss the rapid development across the spectrum of stage-setting for prophetic fulfillment. Spectacular progress in artificial intelligence adds to stage-setting, not only for the fulfillment of prophecy about the coming Tribulation but also about stage-setting for the narratives that will be floated when millions of people vanish from the nation and world. In that light, the Lazarus Project is indeed most interesting, as my friend would have it.
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This “Project Lazarus” at Meta has some folks raising their eyebrows in the Prophecy Community.
With deception being everywhere, this could easily be used to further deceive folks especially those with vulnerable emotions and forcing people to believe things in a fragile emotional state.
Maranatha!
Good luck to the AI that tries to emulate Laz.
A useful tool for totalitarian states. People can be “disappeared” without anyone knowing it for months or even years.
Half what you see and nothing you hear(or read)
Be critical and ask poignant questions.
More and more “christians” listening to mans word, not Gods. Sad.
Very alarming stuff.
Who can even tell what is real or not any more. It’s like we are living in the matrix.
God’s word is the only true reality.
Everything else is suspect.
Big concern is the number of nominal Christians being exposed to deceased loved ones and allowing themselves to be led by demons imitating the dearly departed. Happened to a friend once who was led away from just beginning a Christian life to spiritism by a recently passed grandmother that “came to him”. Thankfully he soon dug deeper in The Word and came to realize exactly what he was dealing with. “The devil would deceive the very elect...we’re it possible” is always my go-to when questions arise.
Lazamataz and Razamataz
I would think that people who knew the person in real life, and knew he was dead, would be disturbed at seeing new posts on his account.
Beautifully said. Amen and Amen!
I was telling my coffee buddies about this and one of them said he got a FB friend requst from a church member who has been dead for 3 years. He denied it
The devil may not be able to deceive the very elect because God won’t let him, but he sure is going to give it a try. It’s his MO.
He’s a liar and the father of lies, and a murderer. His whole mission is to oppose God and keep or turn people from Him.
Agreed, and test everything in the Word.
My desire to be “online” is smaller and smaller. I want my conversations to be face to face. With trusted friends.
I get it.
Even so come quickly, Lord Jesus.
This is funny though... in transliterations from Hebrew, the letters A and I generally represent the alef and yud respectively. A is for Abraham, I is for Isaac. Like that.
So when I see "AI", it reminds me of an island, because alef + yud spell אי, "island". It goes on, an Artificial Island as it were, because the acronym AI isn't the word "island."
No man is AI. It's the simple meaning -- no man is an island.
The AI is extremely capable of impersonating people. It doesn’t take as much initial input as one might think to train the AI how a certain person interacts with the digital world. It’s very convincing. An entire island of people could go missing...
The fakery is doomed to fail because life imitates Art, not the other way around.
In the end times, the antichrist will perform “miracles” and many will be deceived. But his “ miracles” will be illusions and deciet. It is now getting to the point where we can’t trust anything we see or hear because there are so many sophisticated ways to create the illusion that something really happened miracu,ously. Now we can’t even tell which articles are written by a real person or by CHATGPT. Kids will hand in work created by chatgpt and the teachers Wil. Likely not be able to tell.
Some “religious healings” are nothing but fakes as well. Like “spiritual surgeries” that are proven to be fake, but many fall for it still.
We live in a world domi ated by the father of lies and deceit. It is his realm for awhile (within ,imits) and things are only going to get harder and harder as the end nears.
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