Woke AI Means the End of a Free Internet

Daniel Greenfield.org ^ | 10 April 2023 | Daniel Greenfield

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Big Tech has a great big dream of destroying the internet. And it’s mostly a reality.

The vision of the internet was an open universe, while Big Tech’s vision is the internet reduced to the feed on a few proprietary apps preloaded on your locked phone. Trying to censor the internet of the 90s or the 00s was a laughable proposition, but censoring today’s internet is laughably easy. Want to eliminate a site from the internet? Just wipe it from Google, ban a point of view from Facebook, a book from Amazon, or a video from YouTube. It’s still possible to browse a site off the Big Tech reservation, for now, at least until your browser goes away.

Then content will be limited to the permitted apps on Google and Apple’s proprietary app stores. But Big Tech has even more ambitious plans to replace the internet with itself.

Big Tech has dramatically simplified the user experience off the internet. It did so by moving users from ‘pulling’ content by browsing the internet to ‘pushing’ content at them by displaying a feed. When your computer or phone shows you a news feed you never wanted, that’s ‘pushing’. Big Tech loved pushing, but people resisted it until the arrival of social media reduced everyone to scrolling down a feed selected by secret algorithms and pushed through a proprietary app.

Search, as we used to know it, has been disappearing. People still think that they’re searching the internet the way that they used to in the 90s and the 00s when what they’re actually doing when ‘googling’ is scrolling through a feed derived from a much smaller index of corporate and leftist sites prioritized by Google’s algorithm.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

A PhD friend is mesmerized by ChatGPT. A bloody PhD! What chance do the rest of us have?

[Libloather]

The phone will be used to jumpstart your EV.

[gattaca]

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[4Runner]

Search, as we used to know it, has been disappearing. People still think that they’re searching the internet the way that they used to in the 90s and the 00s when what they’re actually doing when ‘googling’ is scrolling through a feed derived from a much smaller index of corporate and leftist sites prioritized by Google’s algorithm.

Absolute truth. Googling "What Can I Do When My Property Is Trespassed Upon" returns something like: "What Should I Do If Arrested For Trespass In Florida". Unbelievable. Property rights don't exist on Google anymore, but criminal's rights are alive and well.

[jroehl]

Google is an American owned company that is headed and staffed by people from India. Its main function is censorship and the destruction of Western civilization. It is doing both very well.

[jarwulf]

Tell your friend that especially as a scientist, they should use an open source version that isn’t hobbled with restrictions and censorship and spyware like gpt4-x-alpaca. Yes they do exist and should be supported to grow them as an alternative.

[KingLudd]

Since I first started participating in chat rooms in 1991, and then all through the explosion of the internet until today, I figured someone would eventually want payment. I figured free internet was like a pusher giving free samples, until the user is hooked. Bam! Now you must pay. Now that every system and every user is completely hooked. Time to pay. You will be allowed to buy only certain things and navigate only to certain approved sites. Was good while it lasted. I miss the analog world.

[avenir]

Yeah, Search on Google really gave the game away. Those of us old folks who have been on the web from its public inception can see this. Not only has it become more directed in a partisan way, even simple commerce has been junked up.

Explosive bursts of freedom via Amazon, eBay, Craigslist, Napster, etc. have been dulled out, becoming flat and lifeless. Top-Down has always been the death of human freedom and creativity.

[avenir]

So true.

[RoosterRedux]

How is that different than saying a PhD friend is mesmerized by physics, astonomy, or knitting...what chance do the rest of us have?

And what's your friend's PhD in? We've all known some real idiot PhD's.

[himno hero]

The dude is a monkey and cannot thread the needle.

Don’t worry about monkeys and parrots.
Parrots with PHDs (Myopic assholes).

[RoosterRedux]

I think the article is referring to free speech.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Math

[RoosterRedux]

I think that's where ChatGPT will shine because there's little ambiguity about language (at least for those of us who still believe that math isn't racist and 2 + 2 still equal 4).

That said, I share your concern that AI is about to change everything.

I've been watching podcasts and reading up on it over the last week and I still can't get a grasp on where it's headed. But one thing seems certain. Human education, business, health, law, knowledge, and ways of thinking are about to make an evolutionary leap.

I wonder if that's why the Woke Movement is trying to take us in the direction of devolution. Is it a kind of knee-jerk resistance to the future?

[Scooter100]

Rumors are they used AI to create the deposition against Trump. Also, the jury pool selection and prosecutor were selected by AI. How can you win a case against AI?

[Scooter100]

AI.....the Snidely Whiplash of the legal profession.

[Pollard]

Search, as we used to know it, has been disappearing. People still think that they’re searching the internet the way that they used to in the 90s and the 00s when what they’re actually doing when ‘googling’ is scrolling through a feed derived from a much smaller index of corporate and leftist sites prioritized by Google’s algorithm.

Yep in the past ten years, search results have gotten useless.

[Pollard]

Google is an American owned company

Google is a CIA run company

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[bankwalker]

Do you have an example or two? Thanks ...