Half a croissant, on a plate, with a sign in front of it saying '50c'
h a l f b a k e r y
Oh yeah? Well, eureka too.

idea: add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, random

meta: news, help, about, links, report a problem

account: browse anonymously, or get an account and write.

register, login


                         

AI apocalypse

AI is given responsibility and everything goes wrong but people accept it
  (+1)
(+1)
 

It started with. Stupid speling mistakes. People accepted it, no. People adopted it. Started talking with mispronunciated words. That was 90 years ago. First the young genaration. My 10 year old grandchild was dead sirius when he would tell me about his superpawors.

In the now famous Last Human Elections event the USA voted for Jeanine Mardia as president. It turned out she was a fake AI generated person. Her promises sounded right, not to me, but to everyone else.

There are good sides to the revolution. I'm still here, despite my diabetes and being 152 years old. And the crazy killing and fighting around the world finally receded. Its in the water. Nobody knows the exact ingredients, but we all smile. Everybody seems happy, except me. But since I don't complain, and since I am writing down my thoughts on a disconnected computer running off grid, nobody knows about it, and I'm able to keep my opinions to myself.

Islamic Greenpeace is now the state religion, and I can live with that. My Retalin and Canabis levels are monitored. And that's ok too. The universal calendar system made a big change, especially with the universal holiday and culture act, on my 68'th birthday (67'th according to the new system).

But what really kills me is what happened to all the sources of knowledge we used to have.

I was worried when they digitized everything. Especially with all the misinterpretations and misconceptions lost in the translation during the transition to Universalang. I envy the tribes in the Amazon who are supposedly exempt. (Although, I suspect that despite the AI news, they too have been forced into it)

It didn't surprise me when Dilthey's books were categorized as unscientific. Or Mary Midgley. I loved her ideas (don't tell anybody I said that).

The final straw that broke me altogether was when they started the internet unification. I still like to look at the Halfbakery website even though its not a musivis experience, and even though the AI still reads it wrong, I kind of remember when I used to have ideas that sounded correct to me, and how fascinated I was when I found out that I understood the concepts all wrong.

That would never happen today. I have the autocorrect censuring every word I write. It claims its not censorship but it is. I wish I could argue with somebody, but everybody just smiles.

I'm looking at what I wrote, and thinking: Something went wrong with the water system today. I hope I'm not the only one.

pashute, Aug 05 2026

The last paragraph reminded me, inevitably, of... https://www.imdb.co..._nm_1_in_0_q_brazil
'Brazil' by Terry Gilliam. Featuring Robert de Niro as the world's most dangerous heating engineer. [DrBob, Aug 05 2026]

Books. About that ... https://startupfort...-for-training-data/
Apparently, the feeling that "they're coming for our books" is not the insane delusion I had been hoping it was. [pertinax, Aug 09 2026]

IBM on model collapse https://www.ibm.com...pics/model-collapse
[pertinax, Aug 09 2026]





       Top of Maslow's pyramid of needs diagram used to be "Self Actualisation". No-one ever knew what that was until AI provided it. It is a small white tablet, to be taken orally. Great stuff, wouldn't be without it.
Richard K, Aug 05 2026
  

       I just re edited the paragraph about the disconnected computer I'm writing this on. It seems AI already doesn't like this being discussed.
pashute, Aug 05 2026
  

       So nobody enjoyed reading this?
pashute, Aug 06 2026
  

       Maybe it's uncomfortably close.   

       I continue to read printed books. I hope my children don't just throw them all out when I'm gone.
pertinax, Aug 07 2026
  

       I got your enjoyment right here, bub. Read it? I live it. Are we the only grumpy guys left? Fuck you.
minoradjustments, Aug 08 2026
  

       We are absolutely not the only grumpy guys left. Shortly after I wrote the annotation above, an algorithm drew my attention to the linked story. It is getting harder to delay investing in a tinfoil hat.   

       The economics of this are interesting.   

       As we know, LLMs have a problem called "Model Collapse". Basically, the bots are drinking where they shit, and it makes them ill. So, instead of rethinking the whole "do everything with LLMs" idea, the industry's response is to scour the Earth for any remaining clean water sources, and shit in them, too. Figuratively speaking.   

       The problem is self-limiting to the extent that, ultimately, the LLMs will run out of new stuff and collapse terminally, but that might not happen until all the decent information has been destroyed.
pertinax, Aug 09 2026
  

       Before they collapse from septic shock will they fight? Can we watch?
minoradjustments, Aug 09 2026
  

       //will they fight? Can we watch?//   

       It probably won't be as entertaining as that. I haven't investigated this properly, but it's more likely to be the informational version of that grey goo that the nanobots were threatening us with.
pertinax, Aug 09 2026
  

       //No-one ever knew what that was//   

       Yeah, they did, but it sucked. Maslow's book was, loosely speaking, the handbook by which I was brought up. I'm not a fan.
pertinax, Aug 10 2026
  
         


 

back: main index

business  computer  culture  fashion  food  halfbakery  home  other  product  public  science  sport  vehicle