Butlerian Jihad incoming!
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2026
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Was double-tapping a school not enough?
It was a school of some desert people far away. So it's basically irrelevant to the citizen of The Great US Empire.
Not so much an AI thing as much as an American thing. Americans and Israelis love doing that shit.
Only a matter of time. We don't need to worry about Terminator and Skynet. We need worry about everything going from engineered to automated cargo cult slop. All run on massive datacenters controlled by a few mega corporation that everyone is hopelessly dependent on and can't imagine working without. The trillionaire owners of these mega corporations are hiding in bunkers waiting on one of coming calamities to happen, or just from us unwashed masses. While they buy governments and media to keep and increases their riches.
This future sucks. Can I try another one?
I came across this conspiracy theory the other day.
You know how back in the day, company towns had to use company scrip to make sure workers couldn't leave?
Well, not you can be tracked by AI, and as soon as you leave your "boundaries" granted to you by your level of privilege, suddenly your bank card stops working, because that looks like a "fraudulent transaction".
The systems are already in place, too. If I go on an impromptu road trip and spend money six states over, my bank calls me and tells me my card is being used in a weird place, and they ask if that transaction is legit. Usually I can be like "yep, let it through" and everything is fine.
What if the AI decides that in fact everything is not fine, and I don't need to be able to spend money outside of my town?
Sounds like an argument for wallets. Digital or with cash.
AI vibecoded nuclear plant. What could go wrong? You just need to add "no nuclear meltdown" at the end of the prompt.
There is info that Microsoft vibecoded an OS...
Wasn't that just the plot of N.U.K.E.E.?
I’ll worry about ‘AI’ when something that can legitimately be mistaken as intelligence is demonstrated.
In the meantime, these explosively imprecise, statistically luke-warm, grey goo extrusion sphincters need to be exclusively opt-in, and not forced on anyone who hasn’t explicitly consented to a lobotomy.
Like any other toxic ingredient, anything made with even an iota of AI-generated content in it should be flagged, and it should be mandatory for sites to provide an easily user-accessible way to filter that horseshit out.
Data is often called the new oil, but I’d argue it more closely resembles uranium.
LLM’s are like asbestos, a carcinogen later generations will need to carefully remove from the environment they’ve inherited.
What is currently labelled as slop will more accurately be treated like irradiated sludge.
Don't worry about "AI", worry about the idiots who will give the imprecise statistical output extruder a gun.
Yeah, this article is promoting the doomsday AI myth which is the narrative that these companies want us to go with, because it makes their products seem powerful. In reality, people are already turning against this technology en masse
not because they're afraid it'll turn into Skynet, but because it sucks shit.
Why wait? What is with people trying to act so slick and cool?
Yes, it sucks, but it’s a) being used as if it’s intelligent, which is arguably much worse, and b) going to eventually get to a point where it’s at least not terrible(at its job, specifically, as it’s pretty bad for a lot of things).
For a personal reason, I’m worried about it because it’s very likely filtering my CV based on a work gap that’s only getting worse because my CV is getting filtered. It’s not intelligent, but HR companies and departments are using it for that anyway.
going to eventually get to a point where it’s at least not terrible
That is far from inevitable, and that's even more true if you're talking about existing LLM technology.
It's already not bad for certain specific, niche applications. Check out PlantNet. It's awesome. You can take a picture of a plant, and it'll identify it for you. No micro-transactions; you don't even have to log in. It just works.
Obviously, that isn't one of the applications of Machine Learning that people have a problem with. It's the LLMs filtering out your resume or spying on you or producing slop.
Issue is, they're already trying to use it for things it shouldn't be used for...
Name one thing it should be used for, where there's not a better, lower-cost, lower-risk alternative.
I'd say "You got me!", but I legit having an issue with finding a usecase for LLMs.
Are these "top ai researchers" real people?
Real grifters.
These top AI researchers are just investment bankers. So no, not real people
Chernobyl didn't turn the world against nuclear powerplants forever so it's probably fine.
In Germany it did.
Did someone say creating fake news in masses to scare people away from genAI?
Count me in!
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