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This is from the same reputation laundering playbook as companies pumping out disposable products and packaging that aren't home compostable. Then blaming individuals for the resulting mountains of rubbish, because they're "litterbugs";
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koqNm_TgOZk
Don't fall for it. They make the crap, they can choose to stop. So they're responsible for any foreseeable consequences. Not us.
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To MediaWatch's credit, they have a great interview with NZ Skeptics spokesperson Mark Honeychurch, who says pretty much what I would have said about the "AI" spruiked by #MOLE Trainers.
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Wow, this pioneering #MOLE Trainer is high on his own supply;
"Your sneaker is not a psychological entity. But machine learning systems, neural networks, those are thing that actually have ways of thinking, of feeling, of recognising patterns, of predicting, of creating opinions of their own, and ... adapting their behaviour, and then using what they've learned in creative ways... and then they're influential."
#DeKai, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai
No. Sorry. They're not.
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Reminder: your toaster doesn’t dream of artisanal bread. Neural networks don’t have opinions. They’re glorified autocomplete engines trained on our collective overconfidence. 🤖🍞 #AI#NotSentient#CalmDown
"So we're not just automating muscle, as we were in the 20th century, we're automating a mind. Even though it's not your average neurotypical human mind, it is still ... an artificial infant brain, or a toddler brain, or a tween brain, that is picking up - with its own neuro-atypical psychology - what we are showing and our own psychologies."
#DeKai, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai
This clumsy attempt to compare a Trained MOLE to a neurodivergent person is both incorrect and insulting.
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OMG, bang on! I'm embarrassed I didn't join those dots. Just goes to show that thinking is a social activity ; )
"We need to be thinking about AIs not in these obsolete 20th century terms, where we're thinking 'oh, how do we control, how do we regulate these passive tools mechanical tools. We need to also be understanding this in terms of the social psychology, of the interaction between human psychologies and these artificial psychologies."
#DeKai, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai
cough bullshit cough.
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This MOLE Trainer is describing plausible sentence generators like ChatGPT as if they're like artificial minds from sci-fi stories, which there's so much evidence they're not. Notice how he snuck in an anti-regulation sentiment there, disguised as a call for philosophical curiosity or silicon empathy? That's some silver-tongued reputation laundering right there.
What's really disappointing is that @Rushkoff doesn't immediately push back on this nonsense. He buys it hook, like and sinker.
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"... with these giant, artificial AI influencers in the world - the most powerful influencers in the world - far outnumbering humans, who are already ... largely unparented, feral tweens, we ... are either going to ... pretending the problem doesn't exist, pointing fingers at either regulators or tech companies, or we're going to have to ... [think] OMG I'm about to become a parent ..."
#DeKai, 2025
https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/325-de-kai
See what he did there?
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