DWQA QuestionsCategory: Problems in SocietyPropaganda has always been a huge problem, but may be an even bigger issue for AI. China and the Chinese Communist Party spend more money and effort, and engage more of its citizens to spread blatantly false propaganda, than perhaps the rest of the world combined. To such an extent that it felt the need to create its very own global social media platform, TikTok. The Trump administration has even proposed banning TikTok altogether because of the nefarious role the platform plays in both gathering intelligence and spreading propaganda. Some of the lies people are starting to believe about China, that it has no crime, that its infrastructure is some of the most advanced and safest in the world, that there are no homeless people in China, that everyone there has a meaningful and lucrative job, that they are the healthiest and happiest people on the planet, and on and on. When, in fact, the exact opposite is more often than not the case. And for every good lie they tell about themselves, they tell an equally bad one about America and Europe. The problem is, they are so prolific and extreme with this propaganda that the Chinese people themselves believe none of it (about themselves, anyway), and Americans and Europeans (especially young ones) are beginning to believe all of it. With AI having no way to filter this for truth or falsity other than volume, there appears to be a genuine danger of AI itself presenting this propaganda as gospel truth, that China is great and America and Europe are evil. What is Creator’s perspective?
Nicola Staff asked 11 hours ago
Here again, this discussion needs to focus on the fundamental problem, that AI can only do an extrapolation from present knowledge, so whatever it is presented with will be the basis for proceeding, and whatever is generated that could be considered a new perspective or a refinement of that knowledge base, will be restricted inherently by its quality and inadequacies. You have asked about the Internet in terms of it being a quality resource with so much human emotional negativity, distorted thinking, even delusional representations based on ideological beliefs or questionable dogma like hateful religious fundamentalism that discriminates and leads to many tragic events like genocidal actions. So again, the big picture we would point out here is that when you are looking for a system that can artificially outperform human thinking and creativity, if that definition of human thinking and creativity is the current world and its makeup, you must take it warts and all, and that is the problem underway all too evident in your examples. The world is heavily flawed because it is a slave world, after all, corrupted to diminish, degrade, and to deceive you in countless ways, through mind control manipulation, to cultivate faulty thinking and negative beliefs of all kinds that are simply untrue. All of that is reflected in human culture and its many flashpoints for tension, discord, and political problems for even coexistence, let alone a cooperative humanitarian effort for which there are countless needs currently not being met. Another analogy we could make here is that the quest of AI for an ultimate superior general intelligence capability that can supplant human involvement, and do most things in an automated fashion, is much like the grand notion of the earlier era to send a man to the Moon and return him to Earth. That was ultimately proven to be doable and was achieved at tremendous cost and many lives lost to bring it about. While that was a dazzling technical tour de force by human standards, it was a thrill to outside observers and certainly to the participants themselves, but it has not advanced human culture in a material way. Given the difficulties and liabilities because of all of the physical constraints, high-cost impracticality of current systems, and the paltry nature of human knowledge to base an automated simulation on, the question still is not being asked and considered carefully about whether the end result will be rewarding. We see it as a moot point, because we know your future existence will only be for the next 40 years or so, as one way or another you will be leaving the physical plane altogether and none of the systems used as an adjunct for living in the physical will have any relevance to your future living in a higher plane of existence.