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30 sats \ 5 replies \ @optimism 7 Aug \ on: The Threats of AI Come from the State AI
the serfs and plebs cannot use it unless they follow the rules, regs and laws to eliminate the most efficient and knowledgeable use of it.
Another thought occurred to me: if people stop using the relatively uncensored web and start using chatbots exclusively, and government regulates alignment 1 or, per the new Trump action plan, source data, then this offers politicians, spooks and other power figures a prime opportunity to rewrite history once more.
Overt censoring like DeepSeek clumsily filtering out some "undesirable misinformation" from the CCP viewpoint at runtime is only the surface. Bias can be built in eloquently by simply not feeding the LLMs any data deemed undesirable. The only defense against it I can think of would be building our own open source data repositories for ingestion.

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  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment ↩
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 19h
Yes, alignment. I really don’t care what they are willing to call it, it is all the same. They are taking the totalitarian approach to information, forgetting that the truth will set you free. Oooopps… they don’t want free or freedom, they want their leash on every neck with the concomitant collar around every neck. Slavery and serfdom is their goal and by God, they will get it no matter how.
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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 19h
So how do we resist?
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 19h
Are you giving any kind of consent? How about implicit consent from silence? Just say, “NO”. Non-consent by lots of people will stop what they are doing. Have you been practicing your armed self-defense regularly. That is how you say no and make it stick.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 16h
Me? No. Explicit non-consent. Active discouragement and active countermeasures. But my influence is... limited.
But that's not enough because I'm just one dude, and as has been pointed out to me, I and people like me that opted out, don't scale. Assuming that this is true, my game should be (and is) enabling more than activism. So I'm basically looking into what's missing, and what can be improved.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 16h
You can encourage other people to withhold their consent. Other than that, you are doing what you have to do. More and more people have to learn that they can withhold consent.
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