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The fatal flaw in Artificial Intelligence: Climate Change?

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  The fatal flaw in Artificial Intelligence: Climate Change? by Leigh Haugen AI’s role in amplifying dominant narratives will continue to stifle dissent, limit open debate, and impose restrictive controls on society. If we allow this to continue unchecked, AI will become a tool for shaping thought, controlling discourse, and eroding the very freedoms it was meant to empower. This article originally appeared on  LinkedIn,  and is reproduced here with the author’s permission The development of large language models (LLMs) has transformed our world in many ways, making artificial intelligence (AI) a powerful tool capable of generating and interpreting massive amounts of information. These models, however, are fundamentally shaped by the data that feeds them—data taken from the internet, which is itself a collection of human input. While AI has the potential to aid in a variety of fields, there is a glaring flaw inherent to its very design: its reliance on human data. If this...

Trust the (Computer-Generated Gobbledygook) Science!

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  Trust the (Computer-Generated Gobbledygook) Science! THE CORBETT REPORT by James Corbett "Trust The Science!" This is the mantra of the technocratic tyrants. The rallying cry of the Orwellian thought police. The injunction of the modern-day censors who would seek to rid the marketplace of ideas of any and all opposition. If you're reading these words, you already know this. Or you  should  know this, given that the reason I was  censored from ThemTube  back in 2021 was because I dared to produce a  podcast about the philosophy of science  that sought to interrogate and dismantle the "Trust The Science!" injunction. Let's cut to the chase: in this post-COVID era, anyone with their head screwed on straight knows that "Trust The Science!" is a stupid, baseless, self-refuting piece of nonsense that is wielded by authoritarians as a cudgel against political dissent. But as stupid as the "Trust The Science" phrase is, it's about to get ev...