It's Equality

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I really like how the scientology speedrunning trend is developing, in this clip we see that the participants are

Not deterred by the closed door

Working as a group

Protecting their identities

Inflicting material costs to the institution via property destruction

Getting away at the end

Hello guys, sorry for long time no art but I’ve been busy on my other platforms sharing resources and news for the Black Lives Matter movement, so art is currently on pause.

Either way, this is a guide I illustrated for user chivrik on Instagram on how to properly blur and de-trace protest photos. Many protesters have gone missing or turned up dead because they were traced through images they appeared on. Don’t help pigs and protect one another. ACAB and Black lives always matter.

Why should I even care about it?” This is followed by a selection of news articles and tweets reading: “Mysterious Deaths Leave Ferguson Activists ‘On Pins and Needles’”; “A List of All Suspicious Deaths of Ferguson Activists”; Deaths of Ferguson activists lead some to believe something sinister is at play"; “Why Are So Many Ferguson Protesters Dying? Activists wonder is They’re Being Targeted”; “@NewJerseyOAG put a moratorium on Clearview AI’s chilling, unregulated facial recognition software”; “Six young men with connections to the Ferguson protests, including Crawford, have died in the 4 ½ years following the demonstrations”; and “Seeking Information on Individuals Inciting Violence During First Amendment-Protected Peaceful Demonstrations.”

The guide continues: “What to do before blurring: Use a clone stamp tool in Photoshop over a person’s face and other identifiable features. To be completely safe add multiple emojis or randomised images on top of the face. This step can also replace blurring and save the ‘original’ look of your image.

Image Scrubber: This is a very simple tool that you can use both on PC and on your phone. This will also let you delete EXIF data before working with the picture.

Signal: This app securely encrypts your messages so they cannot be tracked, thus making it a great app for communication during protests. It recently added a feature where you can also blur out faces by either allowing the app to do it automatically or draw over things manually.

Facepixelizer: Another great tool similar to Image Scrubber, although it doesn’t let you delete the EXIF data. Works only within your browser and never sends images over network.

One thing you can do to scrub some EXIF data is to take a screenshot of the image; that way, the image’s data will just be that of the screenshot instead of the photo as it was taken. Ultimately it’s better to follow the advice laid out above just to get rid of everything, but in a pinch screenshotting is better than nothing. Make sure to crop out the top bar of your phone screen that displays the time and other info.