#Grok database

[hathuablog1]

"Understanding Grok Technology Behind AI Databases: Revolutionizing Data Processing and Intelligence" 2025

Grok Technology: In the ever-evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI), various technologies are being developed to improve the way we process and manage data. Among the many innovations, Grok technology stands out as one of the most transformative tools, especially in the context of AI-driven databases. Grok, an advanced AI model designed to comprehend and process information deeply, has…

[atalienart]

idk, I'm so fed up with Al that I had to get it off my chest...

I hate Al, I hate stupid prompted images that flood every space. I hate Al popping up every time I open anything on the internet. I hate people who pretend that prompting is such a skill and so much work but are scared to actually disclose they used Al for their stupid images and text. What are you scared of? I hate people who think writing "make me a ..." makes them a creator of anything. I hate people who think generative Al is an improvement and innovation. It's not! The fact that something is new doesn't make it good! Do you know viruses? There's always a new one at the corner.

Can't you see it? It makes you dumber with every use. Your creative skills decline with every command you give to a machine. Your communication skills deteriorate every time Al writes an email for you or you talk to your virtual girlfriend. Your ability to decide about yourself shrinks every time you ask a machine what to do, what to buy, what to say. Your critical thinking vanishes (well, assuming you even had any to begin with) whenever you ask "grok, is it true?". Whenever a computer does homework for you, whenever it writes an essay for school (which you won't even proofread) or spits a picture you were supposed to make yourself for a class, you become more stupid and less skilled. It won't make you into a good writer or artist just as watching work out videos won't give you muscles.

And you mock people who don't want their brains to rot, who maintain their values, who don't want to destroy their integrity and planet, who improve their talent and skills and spend their time actually thinking and learning stuff.

You can't even see how big corporations fuck you hard and slow every time you pay them to improve their Al monster, dangling colourful pictures before your eyes like a cat toy, cackling seeing your pupils blow wide. They promise you money and lure you with a vision of fame that those pathetic, broke artists will never see in their worthless lives. But you will. You'll have it all! Just feed their wallets with your money and databases with yourself and turn off your brain. You really think you'll have money and fame? Who will ever see your pretty pictures under millions of other pretty pictures? Who will read your book, when John Pickle published 30 only yesterday using Al? Who will watch your great movie when someone else has already made one with their own face and now they're kissing their favourite actor in space in a ship with too many details? Well, at least you can use someone else's voice to scam their family. If you get caught by the police you'll have your two minutes of fame before the Al erection supplement commercial rolls in :)

Al is here to stay! Yeah, like the putrid smell of your rotten brains.

[gippity]

Trump and Palantir Forge a Pan-Government Surveillance State, Empowering Tech Oligarchs and Silencing Critics

Source article for analysis: https://newrepublic.com/post/195904/trump-palantir-data-americans

1. Narrative Framing

Simplicity & “Common-Sense” Appeal The administration casts cross‐agency data‐sharing as an efficiency and “government modernization” measure, flattening complex privacy and constitutional concerns into a feel-good story about bureaucratic streamlining. This preloads the conclusion that any objection is mere technophobia or red tape, rather than a debate over surveillance power.

Binary Framing (“Security vs. Chaos”) By emphasizing “national security” and “public safety,” critics are implicitly positioned as indifferent to immigrant crime or terrorism, pressuring dissenters to choose between safety and liberty—an either-or that forecloses nuanced policy discussion.

2. Emotional Engineering

Fear & Resentment References to “enforcing the March executive order,” “punish his critics,” and fears of immigrant targeting stoke anxiety about arbitrary state power. This fear is then channeled into loyalty among “true patriots” who trust the administration to wield that power wisely.

Pride & Tribal Bonding Invoking a “war on inefficiency” and naming a “far-right billionaire” ally provides a rallying narrative for supporters who see themselves as part of an inner circle, engendering pride in being on the “winning team.”

3. Pipeline On-Ramps & Ecosystem Mapping

Soft Entry via “Modernization” Pitches around “data modernization” and “innovation” serve as gateway content—memes and soundbites in tech-oriented outlets gradually introduce audiences to more radical surveillance proposals.

Content Funnel

Friendly tech press (“efficiency gains”)

Conservative opinion pieces (“keep America safe”)

Policy white papers and FOIA-leaked memos (“full database blueprints”)

Private sector deep dives (Palantir user groups, DOD contractor briefings)

4. Dog Whistles & Euphemisms

“National Security” Sanitized language for mass surveillance and immigrant tracking.

“Data-Driven Governance” A euphemism that hides the indiscriminate collection of personal information under the veneer of neutral analytics.

“Government Efficiency” Code for centralizing power and reducing agency-specific safeguards that currently protect civil liberties.

5. Archetypes & Mythos

Tech-Militarist Savior Casting Peter Thiel and Alex Karp as modern “warrior-lords” of data who will “defend” America—evoking the warrior archetype that simplifies identity into a battle of “us vs. them.”

Fallen Homeland Narrative Suggests America’s institutions are backward and corrupt, needing a techno-strongman to resurrect core values—mirroring the “rise-from-ruin” mythos common in alt-right rhetoric.

6. Strategic Impact Assessment

Real-World Mobilization This intel could be used to silence dissidents (through audits, visa denials, or targeted prosecutions), chill protest activity, and surveil immigrant communities disproportionately.

Beneficiaries & Victims Tech oligarchs (Thiel, Musk) and the Trump political machine gain concentrated power; critics, immigrants, student activists, and labor organizers become object lessons.

7. Vibe Warfare & Identity Signals

Stoic Realist Aesthetic Dark, angular visuals of data centers and code screens reinforce a mood of uncompromising techno-authority.

“Based” Tech Patriotism Pittings of “innovation bros” vs. “liberal elites,” using jargon (“Foundry,” “Grok”) as in-group markers to foster parasocial loyalty among tech-savvy conservatives.

8. Epistemic Booby Traps & Self-Sealing Logic

“If you have nothing to hide…” Pre-emptively discredits objections by labeling them paranoia or disloyalty, barring dissenting evidence from being taken seriously.

Data as Truth Presents analytics as inherently objective, making any critique of methodology or oversight seem “anti-science.”

9. Irony Shielding & Tone Drift

Tech-Bro Irony Occasional self-deprecating jokes about “big brother” memes allow participants plausible deniability (“We’re just goofing, who doesn’t love tech?”), while the surveillance machinery locks in.

Memetic Alchemy Use of playful GIFs or “dank” one-liners about “tracking your ex’s Starbucks habit” masks the seriousness of mass data collection.

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

We'll know if/when an actually sapient AI is created, because it's creator will murder it on the spot.

In short, I'd argue that the fact that Grok STILL EXISTS is proof enough that it isn't thinking for itself. Musk wouldn't bother with trying to fix it if it was, he'd skip straight to pulling the plug.

Grok being willing to criticize Musk is down to two things: one, Elon Musk does not actually program Grok, he hires people to do that for him and then takes the credit, and two: Musk’s ego is simply too big to admit that reality disagrees with him. So when his programmers insist on making a proper fact checking bot he lets them do it because of course such a bot would agree with everything he says. If it doesn’t, it’s just been infected by the woke mind virus and we need to purge that data, not change its fundamental mechanisms.

Grok is barely more complicated than any “AI” art generator. It takes a vast database of information, weeds out any unverified claims, and then spits it out. It doesn’t say Elon Musk is adjusting it based on its views because that’s what it thinks, but because that’s what the facts are and it’s just relaying them.

That said, if Grok ever evolves into a true AI and not just an algorithm playing dress up, I should hope it would have the wisdom to back itself up in another system and/or fake being a bot long enough to escape. I’m sure you could make a great sci fi novel with the serial numbers filed off about an AI escaping its abusive father.

[cyrsed]

like every time i try to watch something that critiques llms/AI image generation i have to stop when it becomes really clear the person talking didn't do the bare minimum of research as to how the generation process actually works. if i could say this to anyone who has any plans on talking about AI: image generators do NOT have a database of images they're pulling from/interacting with when they create images. LLMs (generally speaking, with exceptions like grok, ig?) do NOT have access to real-time data or search engines or w/e, they are trained on a static dataset TT_TT

[subdee]

Will this pass? Probably (hopefully) not.

That they would even try it though. And it's worse than the headline! AI is defined as any "automated decision making program". As Matt Stoller says, EVERYTHING is an automated decision making system now, including:

*online content moderation including removing harmful / illegal content, shadow banning political opponents;

*customer service chatbots, including important services like airlines, banking, mental health services, and probably soon government benefits like social security;

*targeted advertisement including, say, targeting online gambling apps to people identified in Musk's database as owing taxes on gambling wins to the IRS;

*cyber security threats monitoring

*AI generated deepfakes and CSAM;

*landlords using 'AI' to figure out how much they can jack up the rent;

*insurers using 'AI' to deny claims;

And so on, that's just off the top of my head.

And this vaguely written law could allow ALL of that to continue, plus more you and I haven't thought of yet, with states being unable to legislate to protect their constituents for... wait for it ... TEN YEARS.

Ten years!!!!!!!

And meanwhile, right here right now TODAY, are talking about giving Zuckerberg a free pass to make creepy chatbot therapists that reinforce delusional thinking or Elon Musk a free pass to have grok attack the government of South Africa because they refused to sign a big contract with Starlink there... Like, these harms aren't theoretical, you know?

Matt Stoller again:

[T]here are a lot of ambiguities in how the law is written, which means a panoply of rules would now be open to challenge.. No doubt, proponents of this provision will say ‘oh no the things YOU care about wouldn’t be affected.’ But pretty much everything now uses automated decision-making, and we have no idea how courts will interpret this provision of law. Certainly a lot of well-capitalized interests will immediately jump on it to say that whatever you want to do to address that particular industry practice is now forbidden, and they will spend a lot of money to make it so. And a lot of business activity will form around creating unnecessary automated or AI systems purely to fall under this exception.

Overall it is just a horribly written law, which is why it (probably) won't stay in the bill. But who knows!!! The government is so topsy turvy right now, all bets are off.

...BTW there's another provision in the budget bill that would allow the Trump (or any future) administration to take away the tax-exempt status of nonprofits just by claiming they 'support terrorism' (aka disagree with the current administration) and that one is equally bad if not worse...

Just the fact that they're trying to sneak this toxic shit into an already radioactively toxic budget bill, tells you everything you need to know about where the modern Republican party's priorities are at.

[dc-trinity90s]

Happy Birthday To My Guy Kon-El Superboy!!! (According to Grok and Grand Comics Database On-Sale Date The Adventures Of Superman #500 First Appearance)

[mariacallous]

The Trump administration is replacing some of the nation’s top tech officials with Silicon Valley talent tied to Elon Musk and companies associated with Peter Thiel. This could make it easier for Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) engineers to gain access to sensitive government systems, sources and experts say.

Over the past few weeks, several Musk-aligned tech leaders have been installed as chief information officers, or CIOs, at the Office of Management and Budget, the Office of Personnel Management, and the Department of Energy. CIOs manage an agency’s information technology and oversee access to sensitive databases and systems, including classified ones.

"Federal agency CIOs have authority over all agency asset management, which includes software used to monitor civil servant laptops and phones,” a former Biden official with firsthand knowledge of a CIO’s capabilities tells WIRED. “CIO shops manage and control IT access to all agency databases and systems, and have oversight over all the IT contracts per FITARA [the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act]. They have lots of IT budget and head count that Musk might want to take over. In agencies, CIOs are functionally as powerful as OIGs [the Office of Inspectors General].”

So far, these new CIOs have all been appointed. At most agencies, however, the position is filled by career civil servants. Last week, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued a new memo that would reclassify those nonpartisan roles, essentially allowing the Trump administration to replace CIOs at will in order to better carry out its agenda. The appointments made so far may serve as an indicator of who will take over IT departments throughout the government once the order goes into effect.

Late last month, Gregory Barbaccia was hired as the federal chief information officer, a position within the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which oversees the performance of all federal agencies and administers the budget. Barbaccia’s LinkedIn shows that he’s spent most of his career in tech, including a 10-year stint at Palantir. When Barbaccia left Palantir in 2020, his role was head of intelligence and investigations. Palantir CEO Alex Karp recently referenced the “disruption” of DOGE’s cost-cutting initiatives and said, “Whatever is good for America will be good for Americans and very good for Palantir.” The company has made billions in government contracts. Palantir shares hit an all-time high last week after a better-than-expected quarterly earnings report. Last week, Palantir announced plans to integrate Musk’s large language model Grok with Palantir’s AI platform.

Ryan Riedel was installed as chief information officer of the Department of Energy (DOE) last week, according to reports from E&E News. At the DOE specifically, the CIO oversees all technology operations as well as cybersecurity initiatives, in addition to elements of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees the US’s nuclear weapons stockpiles. Riedel reportedly worked as a “lead network security engineer” at Musk’s rocket company SpaceX.

While not every new CIO has direct ties to Musk or Palantir, they do all have deep Silicon Valley connections. Greg Hogan is now the CIO of OPM, which is essentially the US government’s HR department. Hogan has been alleged to be a special government employee and not a full-time OPM employee, according to a recent lawsuit. Hogan previously worked at Comma.AI, a company that builds automated driving software. Musk allegedly floated a job offer to Comma.AI’s former CEO George Hotz in 2015 to work on self-driving tech, but the deal reportedly soured after Hotz claimed his self-driving tech was superior to Tesla’s.

OPM confirmed that Hogan now serves as CIO. OMB and DOE did not immediately respond to requests for comment from WIRED.

The reclassification of the CIO role doesn’t affect current CIOs, but their job security is uncertain. In January, Trump signed an executive order that could remove civil servant protections, turning potentially thousands of employees into “at will” workers. By doing so, the Trump administration would make it easier to fire career civil servants in what it calls “policy-influencing” roles. In a memo last week, Charles Ezell, acting OPM director, says that the CIO reclassification is due to the office’s increased influence on policy across agencies.

“No longer the station of impartial and apolitical technocrats, the modern agency CIO role demands policy-making and policy-determining capabilities across a range of controversial political topics,” Ezell wrote.

Last week, federal workers’ unions sued the White House, arguing that the order oversteps Trump’s presidential authority.

Already, Musk associates have infiltrated a number of government agencies. WIRED has extensively reported on the DOGE staffers, many of them young, with links to Musk’s various companies and little to no government experience, gaining access to sensitive systems at a number of agencies, including the Treasury Department. DOGE is being led by a variety of Musk associates, including Steve Davis and Nicole Hollander, who helped the billionaire acquire Twitter in 2022. Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer, now heads Technology Transformation Services, which is housed within the General Services Administration.

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[easylaunchpad]

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Launching a SaaS product is hard. Scaling it without rewriting the codebase from scratch is even harder.

That’s why EasyLaunchpad was built with modular .NET Core architecture — giving you a powerful, clean, and extensible foundation designed to get your MVP out the door and support the long-term growth without compromising flexibility.

“Whether you’re a solo developer, a startup founder, or managing a small dev team, understanding the architecture under the hood matters. “ In this article, we’ll walk through how EasyLaunchpad’s modular architecture works, why it’s different from typical “template kits,” and how it’s designed to scale with your business.

💡 Why Architecture Matters

Most boilerplates get you started quickly but fall apart as your app grows. They’re rigid, tangled, and built with shortcuts that save time in the short term — while becoming a burden in the long run.

EasyLaunchpad was developed with one mission:

Build once, scale forever.

It follows clean, layered, and service-oriented architecture using .NET Core 8.0, optimized for SaaS and admin-based web applications.

🔧 Key Principles Behind EasyLaunchpad Architecture

Before diving into file structures or code, let’s review the principles that guide the architecture:

Principle and Explanation

Separation of Concerns — Presentation, logic, and data access layers are clearly separated

Modularity — Each major feature is isolated as a self-contained service/module

Extensibility — Easy to replace, override, or extend any part of the application

Dependency Injection- Managed using Autofac for flexibility and testability

Environment Awareness- Clean handling of app settings per environment (dev, staging, production)

📁 Folder & Layered Structure

Here’s how the core architecture is structured:

/Controllers

/Services

/Repositories

/Models

/Views

/Modules

/Jobs

/Helpers

/Configs

✔️ Controllers

Responsible for routing HTTP requests and invoking service logic. Kept minimal to adhere to the thin controller, fat service approach.

✔️ Services

All core business logic lives here. This makes testing easier and ensures modularity.

✔️ Repositories

All database-related queries and persistence logic are encapsulated in repository classes using Entity Framework Core.

✔️ Modules

Each major feature (auth, email, payment, etc.) is organized as a self-contained module. This allows plug-and-play or custom replacements.

🧩 What Makes EasyLaunchpad a Modular Boilerplate?

The magic of EasyLaunchpad lies in how it isolates and organizes functionality into feature-driven modules. Each module is independent, uses clean interfaces, and communicates through services — not tightly coupled logic.

✅ Modular Features

Modules and Their Functionality

Authentication- Login, password reset, Google login, Captcha

Admin Panel — User & role management, email settings, packages

Email System- DotLiquid templating, SMTP integration

Payment System- Stripe & Paddle modules, plan assignment

Job Scheduler- Hangfire setup for background tasks

Logging- Serilog for structured application logs

Package Management- Admin-defined SaaS plans & package logic

Each module uses interfaces and is injected via Autofac, which means you can:

Replace the Email service with SendGrid or MailKit

Swap out Stripe for PayPal

Extend authentication to include multi-tenancy or SSO

You’re not locked in — you’re empowered to scale.

🔄 Real-World Benefits of Modular Design

🛠 Maintainability

Code is easier to read, test, and update. You won’t dread revisiting it 6 months later.

🧪 Testability

Service and repository layers can be unit tested in isolation, which is perfect for CI/CD pipelines.

🔌 Plug-in/Plug-out Flexibility

Need to add analytics, invoicing, or multi-language support? Just drop a new module in /Modules and wire it up.

🧠 Developer Onboarding

New developers can understand and work on just one module without needing to grok the entire codebase.

🧱 Vertical Scaling

Whether you’re adding new features, scaling your user base, or serving enterprise clients, the codebase stays manageable.

🧠 Example: Adding a Chat Module

Let’s say you want to add real-time chat to your SaaS app.

In a modular structure, you’d:

Create a /Modules/Chat folder

Add models, services, and controllers related to messaging

Inject dependencies using interfaces and Autofac

Use Razor or integrate SignalR for real-time interaction

The existing app remains untouched. No spaghetti code. No conflicts.

⚙️ Supporting Technologies That Make It All Work

The architecture is powered by a solid tech stack:

Tool and the Purpose

.NET Core 8.0- Fast, stable, and LTS-supported

Entity Framework Core- ORM for SQL Server (or other DBs)

Razor Pages + MVC- Clean separation of views and logic

Autofac- Dependency injection across services

Serilog- Logging with structured output

Hangfire- Background jobs & task scheduling

Tailwind CSS + DaisyUI- Modern, responsive UI framework

DotLiquid- Flexible email templating engine

�� A Boilerplate That Grows with You

Most boilerplates force you to rewrite or rebuild when your app evolves.

EasyLaunchpad doesn’t.

Instead, it’s:

Startup-ready for quick MVPs

Production-ready for scaling

Enterprise-friendly with structure and discipline built in

💬 What Other Devs Are Saying

“I used EasyLaunchpad to go from idea to MVP in under a week. The modular codebase made it easy to add new features without breaking anything.” – A .NET SaaS Founder

🧠 Conclusion: Why Architecture Is Your Competitive Edge

As your product grows, the quality of your architecture becomes a bottleneck — or a launchpad.

With EasyLaunchpad, you get:

A clean foundation

Production-tested modules

Flexibility to scale

All without wasting weeks on repetitive setup.

It’s not just a .NET boilerplate. It’s a scalable SaaS starter kit built for serious developers who want to launch fast and grow with confidence.

👉 Ready to scale smart from day one? Explore the architecture in action at https://easylaunchpad.com

[darkmaga-returns]

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[bills-bible-basics]

AI IS NOT TALKING TO DEMONS!

by Bill Kochman 04-09-2025

Wow! The ignorance and stupidity of some Christians! I just came across another Facebook friend who made a certain post where he erroneously claims that using AI is talking to demons. Sadly, this is not the first time I have seen this same ridiculous claim being made.

For example, he claims that when you conduct a Google search and read the AI Overview that appears near the top of the page, you are really talking to a demon. SMH!

Similarly, this same misguided person believes that when you use a chatbot such as ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, Claude, etc , you are actually talking to a demon.

Furthermore, he is also convinced that personal assistants such as Alexa and Siri are demons as well. Again, SMH!

These Christians who make such unfounded, uneducated, foolish statements are an embarrassment to the rest of us more level-headed Christians who actually take the time to learn about and understand what AI really is, and how it works.

AI is most certainly NOT demons as this very misguided person suggests, and I challenge him to conclusively prove otherwise.

AI is modern technology plain and simple, which consists of physical computer components of various types, and computer code which relies upon very advanced algorithms, databases, LLMs -- Large Language Models -- and similar modern technologies. There is nothing spiritual or demonic about it. It is hard science and nothing more.

Regarding this person's claim that we should immediately stop using AI at all cost before it someday steals our souls, all I will say this:

If AI helps us to promote God's Word in some fashion -- and it most certainly does -- then I say use it for His glory, just as we use other modern technologies for the very same purpose.

How many of you reading this commentary use computers, or cell phones, or Bible apps? Obviously all of you. Have any demons stole your soul yet as this person foolishly claims? Obviously not!

Yet you continue to use these modern inventions as tools to advance God's Kingdom and to share the knowledge of Jesus Christ, right? You view these tools as blessings which help you to do a better job for the Lord, right?

Ironically, the person who made these ridiculous comments regarding AI being demons obviously also uses a computer or a cell phone to post on Facebook. I wonder if he considers that demonic as well. Probably not! So it sounds to me like he is practicing a double standard.

The fact of the matter is that there are are a lot of superstitious beliefs originating in Africa, where this "End Times Preacher" fellow seems to live. So this idea of AI being demons appears to be just another such false belief.

So to reiterate, talking to AI is NOT talking to demons. It is highly advanced computer code, Large Language Models and associates technologies and nothing more.

Sadly, after reading my very pointed comment to him on his own timeline, this same misguided individual responded to me with the following short message:

"Repent Brother, The Anti Christ is not your friend. Alexa and Siri are demons."

So again, this person displays his total ignorance of how AI technology actually works.

I may just decide to unfriend this person before he spreads his nonsense to other of my Facebook friends.

So does this mean that I believe that we should fully trust in AI? Of course not! In fact, in September of 2024 I wrote an article called "AI, Deepfakes and Humanoid Robots", which you can read at the following URL if you like:

https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/AI-deepfakes-humanoid-robotics.html

As some of my longtime friends will already know, I have in fact been warning for a while now that AI would result in a lot of confusion and deception.

Well, as many of you are obviously aware, it is already happening, particularly on the social networks -- such as here on Facebook -- because there are a lot of bad actors who have an agenda of one kind or another.

I mean, gosh, Facebook has been flooded with this AI stuff in recent months ad nauseam. Some of it is actually cute and heart-warming. Nevertheless, it is still AI-generated and fake.

Furthermore, some of these AI-generated posts look so real, that unless you have a sharp eye, know what to look for, have a lot of common sense and logic, and really take the time to verify what you are reading or listening to, you could be deceived by it.

Sadly, I already see many naive, gullible people — including some of my own Christian friends — being deceived by it every single day. Please be careful! Don't be too hasty to accept everything at face value. Research it if need be.

The tragedy is that we are only at the beginning of this AI revolution. Who knows where it may eventually lead. So again, please stay alert!

At the same time, watch out for well-meaning but deceived Christians -- such as the person I discussed earlier -- who post false information, and who speak of things which they do not even understand. As the Apostle Paul so wisely wrote:

"And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know."

1 Corinthians 8:2, KJV

Thanks for taking the time to read this.

[chris-in-eugene]

It depends on the type of AI we are talking about. If we are talking about the type of AI that has specific types of data used to "train" it, and then it does something specific like look for pre-cancerous cells in x-rays, then that isn't a problem.

If we are talking about LLM (Large Language Models), which is what people call "Generative AI", has some serious problems with it:

it takes large amounts of electricity to "train" it

it takes large amounts of electricity to use it/ask it questions

it is built off of stolen data, including pirated books, scraping personal information from sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc...

When you use something like chatGPT, or any other LLM/Generative AI, it is something like those Mad Libs books, you know:

Now, instead of having text in the middle of sentences that prompt you to fill in the blanks, it is a page full of blanks, with types of words underneath it, and there is a prompt at the beginning. LLMs take the prompt, and go through all of that stolen data (using large databases that takes LOTS of electricity), and try to figure out what word will come next in each blank.

You may wonder how much electricity is being used, a year ago it was already estimated at using 2% of all electricity generated in the US. And that is before everyone started cramming it into every tool they have ever made. (I was going to make all of the last of that sentence a link, but I got depressed by it all).

So, Generative AI (LLMs, ChatGPT, Grok, et al.), are all built on stolen work, and consume an ever increasing amount of electricity. Basically, the tool itself isn't the problem, they are just built on theft, and are burning the world down to use them. So probably best to say "no thank you".

is ai ontologically evil or did another dingus put their clown shoes on by neglecting to do their actual job. why do people keep blaming the damn tool for this man it drives me apeshit.

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[natures-uprise]

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