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AOC: AI systems want us to be dependent and outsource our cognition to a machine, and they want us to increasingly rely on AI systems so that they can sell intelligence back to us. (video.twimg.com)

submitted 4 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/tech@piefed.world

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AI needs 2 things. It needs capital-intensive resources. But it also needs an uneducated population that cannot think, that is not educated, that relies on it so that they can sell cognition back to us.

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[–] bitteroldcoot@piefed.social 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Was there any doubt about this?

If anything that is a mild description. The use of sycophancy and censorship (guard rails) was always meant to control the population. The mass manipulation of Facebook, but with a sycophantic smile.

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

It's obvious to us.

It's not obvious to my tech-illiterate family members, coworkers, and neighbors.