In the Age of AI, We Each Have To Choose How Much of Our Humanity We Want To Keep
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has gone full Nazi after changes were made to its programming to give it a heavier right wing bias, sparking international headlines with its tweets praising Adolf Hitler’s treatment of Jews and babbling about Jewish conspiracies to spread anti-white hate.
The official X account for Grok announced that the team is “aware of recent posts made by Grok and are actively working to remove the inappropriate posts,” saying “xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X.”
So apparently they’re having a hard time teaching their chatbot specifically what kind of right wing bias they want it to have.
Shit’s getting weird, man. The age of AI is weird.
AI is presenting a very interesting dilemma to each of us. We now each have to decide as individuals just how human we wish to keep our experience, because we’re hitting a point where we can become just about as divorced from the things that make us human as we want to be.
We can choose to let AI do our critical thinking for us if we want to. We can choose to let it do our reading and writing for us. We can choose to let it create the art we produce and consume. We can choose to let it formulate arguments for us justifying our opinions and our worldview, or to let it reshape our worldview altogether. We can even choose to anthropomorphize it and have relationships with it if we are lonely.
We all have to choose for ourselves where the line is now. What point we will not cross beyond. What parts of our humanity we are willing and unwilling to trade for convenience or cognitive ease.
Just how far into the guts and gristle of humanity do you want to be?
How deeply do you want to be immersed in the breathing, sweating, pulsing fleshiness of the human adventure?
How fully do you want to feel the erotic ticklings of creativity moving through you, and the frustration you’
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