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  • grrk@lemmy.mltoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worlddo computers conspire?
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    9 months ago

    No. Ai cannot “think” any of its own original “thoughts”, it’s usually trained on LOTS AND LOTS of human generated text / data and uses highly complex algorithms to generate it’s response to whatever human input is given as a prompt.

    If it can’t generate it’s own original thoughts, it can’t conspire on its own.

    If i had to guess what the conspiracy theories are about, it’d be related to more recent ai models being trained/created with ai generated text/data. The mere existence of the “rokos basilisk” thought experiment is probably a common starting point / “core” of a lot of whatever zany ai conspiracy theories are floating about. They’ve been floating around for a long time before chatGPT got popular, but chatGPT and other ais all becoming more popular could only ever further increase the amount of ai related conspiracy theories.

    Conspiracy theories and other similar distrusts of new technologies is actually pretty common throughout history, so this is basically just a continuation of that historical trend.


  • Believe it or not, chatGPT does well at providing unbiased answers to controversial subjects. It can even remove bias from articles you copy/paste into a simple prompt like “please remove the political bias from the following article: (paste it here)”.

    Or if you’re old fashioned, your local library / librarian can be a great resource on their own as well recommend some further unbiased materials for you.

    you could ask also chatGPT the same question you asked here and probably get a more helpful answer. Can’t hurt to ask

    Alternatively, you could read his books for yourself and decide for yourself what his ideas mean to you.