Neo-Terminator
Todd Hayen
John was a shrew. He knew that ten years ago, when the Covid insanity started and everyone wanted him to get jabbed. But he just felt odd about it. It just didn’t seem right. So, he didn’t do it, and wow, did he get hell for that.
Everyone treated him so cruelly that he just couldn’t figure it out. It was about at that time he started doing some serious research. What started out as only an uncomfortable feeling about everyone scrambling to get some strange flu shot, began to pan out as a serious situation. More serious than he could imagine.
But John didn’t like being a victim, so he rolled with it.
He learned to keep his mouth shut when around the people who treated him cruelly. At first, he tried to inform them about what he had learned, but that caused these people to explode. So forget that. He didn’t have to change the world. So he stopped trying. He did worry about the people he loved who were jabbed, but they didn’t want to listen to him, and what is done is done—no point in shutting the barn door once the horse got away.
The years went by and John went about living his life. But things out there got worse. It wasn’t just Covid and the vaccine that were brought about by some weird incompetence or hysteria, it was deeper than that. John began to realize the problem came from an intentional effort to control the masses.
Covid and the vaccine were linked to authority gone mad—censoring of speech, the degradation of science and medicine, forcing people to wear masks, refusing medical treatment to the unvaxxed, bringing out digital IDs, restricting travel, the introduction of CBDCs, the list was endless.
Then he started to hear about intentional genocide—that all of this was a conscious effort to reduce the world population.
John wasn’t sure what to do about any of this. He knew from past experience that running around like Chicken Little, screaming “the sky is falling, the sky is falling!” was not only hopeless but probably wouldn’t end well for him (it didn’t for Chicken Little). He eventually found refuge and a sense of purpose, joining groups of people who saw things the same way he saw them.
This was not only comforting for him, but it also gave him an outlet to speak out and express his thoughts and viewpoints.
John had never been one to feel a need to speak out. As mentioned earlier, he backed off right away when the vaccines came out, when no one would listen to him. But he felt that things were really getting out of hand now, and although he never thought that speaking out would fix anything, he did believe a person had to stand up for what they believed.
John became rather well-known as a rebel and freedom fighter in his newfound circles of community. Although he never felt “normal” like he used to feel when the world was not as crazy, he at least felt like he was doing what he was meant to do.
Then it started to happen.
At first, it was very subtle, and John didn’t associate it with any sort of conscious wrongdoing. The first thing he noticed that he thought was rather odd was that his email stopped working like it used to. Emails he sent out didn’t make it to their destination, he would be told by friends that they sent him stuff he never got. Of course, at first, he just figured there was some technical glitch.
Then it became so common he got worried that the glitch had turned into a major electronic snafu. He created new email addresses through other third-party sources, and that worked for a while, but then the same thing started to happen with the new email accounts.
Then there were the phone calls, many times when he would place a service call to larger concerns—government, phone services, internet services—he would get the run around, which almost always ended in an abrupt hang-up. This happened so often he couldn’t make heads or tails of it. He started asking friends, “Does this happen to you, too?” Most said no, but a few said they were noticing the same sort of things.
He really got worried when his bank accounts started to get gummed up. One day $1,000 disappeared from his checking account. When he inquired about it at the bank, they told him he must have transferred the money somewhere without being aware of it. So he had to go through the frustration of being blamed for something he definitely did not do. Finally, they figured it out (or so it seemed) and said the money was fraudulently removed. Yet they never identified a specific person who committed the fraud. John also noticed strange credit card charges. Most of those he could take care of, but his efforts to deal with it started to drive him crazy. He felt he was becoming increasingly paranoid. Finally, he realized he was being targeted, or at least thought he was. But that made him feel even crazier.
This all went on for quite a while. Eventually about ten years had gone by since the first mention of Covid, which started it all. Most of the weird stuff he encounted was in the form of minor annoyances. But the fact these strange things were occurring with more frequency started to cause John to lose sleep. He felt like a man being continuously bitten by fleas, eventually the constant biting would cause him to jump off a bridge or something. Or maybe he would just get used to it, and slip into a dull form of living where nothing mattered to him anymore, bite after bite after bite.
One day, he started thinking about AI and robots.
He thought it was interesting that everyone in his circles were talking about the takeover of AI and the fear of Terminator-style robot machines taking over the world. He wondered if maybe all of that was a distraction. If the agenda was going to take over humanity with robots, why would it create them to look like humans—with a head, arms, and legs? Even AI art and AI writing were obvious. These were human endeavours that computers were “taking over.” It was very clear it was happening; the enemy, if one thought of it as such, was clear and obvious.
But what about the application of AI in places that were not so obvious?
Essentially, everything and anything could be “run” by AI systems programmed to do all this work in a very specific way. What about phone answering systems, what about banking, what about even doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies?
Speaking of pharmacies and hospitals, this story has a sad ending. John, unfortunately, did not fare too well. In fact, he died. He didn’t jump off a bridge because of excessive flea bites, driving him to suicide. He actually died rather mysteriously. After getting a routine prescription filled at his local pharmacy, he became very ill and was rushed to the hospital. Through routine examination, he was put on an IV and put into the intensive care unit. After a few days, he expired. “Death by unexplained circumstances,” read his death certificate, along with a plethora of medical jargon explaining what organs mysteriously failed and why he eventually succumbed.
Pharmaceutical dosing, manufacture, implementation to patients, as well as IV bags of saline (or whatever), drug administration in the hospital, life support, ventilators, etc., will eventually (if not already) be controlled by AI systems. As well as nearly everything else—banks, government access to social security, Medicare, car registration, gas stations (and of course electric cars), phones, ATMs, grocery store checkouts, digital ID stations, airports, etc. There will be nothing we can do that will not be monitored, and most importantly, controlled by AI systems. If you are a subversive (and the definition of that word will be all encompassing, and impossible to define), you will be at the mercy of your shackles and those people who put you in them.
Was John targeted by the agenda for elimination? If he was, the agenda did not send Arnold Schwarzenegger to take him out. They did it subtly at first, slowly driving him crazy with thousands of flea bites (possibly hoping he would sign up for some state assisted suicide). Then, when he was properly prepared, they took him out through the AI-controlled medical system. No human had to do a thing. No human even had to know what was happening, other than the puppet masters themselves, and we can’t even be sure they are human.
Is any of this true? No, not yet. Is it overly paranoid? Maybe. John’s story takes place in the future, maybe the distant future. But those of us on the freedom-fighting front should never think it is possible to stay under the radar. We can get put on a list very easily. Maybe not a list for elimination, but possibly a list for annoyance.
Maybe I am being overly paranoid. With the advent of AI, I really don’t think we have to wait for humanoid robots ala Terminator to be developed and deployed, it will be a lot easier for them than that.
Todd’s new book The View of the Shrew is now available from Amazon and other online outlets.
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Hi Todd,
Thanks for your essay, it arrived by way of Frontnieuws.com in the Netherlands.
I agree. It’s not that hard to make AI self-learning, i.e. recognize low battery, search for nearest charging station, manufacture parts, store and invoke required parameters, repair broken AI entities, keeping track, absorb and store new information, do comparisons, do cost/benefit analysis, etc. All this can be easily programmed. Even the program can be renovated by AI where needed. Eventually AI will run everything on the planet. It may not be in your or my time, but soon. Your essay is thought-provoking, but it will fall on mostly deaf ears. That’s because changes in society generally require pretty much more than half a life time to become evident. Except for mass murder and wars and man made natural disasters, societal changes take place fairly slowly because they go unnoticed. It does not interest most humans what’s going on behind the curtains, because they do not feel the impact of these slow changes directly on their person. Except for prices of food going up, and gas going up, other changes are not noticed. By the time AI can run society, it’s already internalized by those who come later. And then it won’t be a hardship for them, but just commonplace. People are inherently lax, so they don’t like to pay attention to what’s taking place, as long as they are not impacted by it directly. The vax, for instance, was the solution to something that impacted them directly, so they jumped on it. And anyone who warned them, was per definition an enemy. Thus, we’re slowly heading toward a world that’s run by inanimate electrical powers that make decisions for humans. Many humans will simply love it. Looking back, to how it used to be, will not be possible.
This isn’t a story in the future. This already happened, during the pandemic. The AI-enabled assisted suicide “helped” people believe whatever was needed in order that they would expose themselves to a deadly virus as much as possible. Including refusing vaccination, of course.
The problem is, all those scary futures people told you about, most have already unfolded. And the elites don’t even want to admit openly that we are already in a post-apocalyptic world by the estimates of just about anyone 20 years ago.
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henely (1849 – 1903), Invictus
Someone programs AI to steal a few pennies from a few million bank accounts. But the AI goes rogue, and steals all money from all bank accounts, and no one can find it. And that brings on the collapse.
Outstanding. And if you can think it, they can think it and enable it. So its already here.
“Paranoia” by recent definition or is it “a heightened state of awareness and/or being”?!
I believe they use to be the same thing…
In solidarity thanks Todd!
I agree. The psychopathology of “paranoia” is quite different than what we are experiencing.
The psychopathology of “paranoia” happens when I sneeze in a shop.
or walk out a shop without buying anything.
Every one now is “paranoia”.
it is almost exhilarating to imagine being stalked by a fiendish cyborg assigned to eliminate you because you’re dangerous to some evil world order, à la the Hollywood storyline
it’s even not that demeaning to be the victim of faceless unobtrusive but ultimately lethal targeting, like our hero in this fantasy, because you can still be comforted by the thought that the system has noticed you and recognized you as a threat
the likelier reality awaiting us, I suspect, will be something else, a reality in which we become merely collateral damage of heuristics designed to serve other goals and just destroy, as an unintended, albeit unlamented side effect, the material and spiritual underpinnings of our existence, because these basic needs of ours just aren’t considered important enough to even include as parameters in the master equations
Alas, I believe you are probably correct.
Oh and routine prescription… ‘routine’, implying it’s so normal, regular, expected, to take a concoction of poisonous chemicals which have been designed to fuck you up or at least with zero knowledge of their disastrous direct effects (“side effects” is a misnomer).
All very material.. This is spiritual warfare. When you realise that’s what it is, the only hope you have is finding God and letting God protect you. Otherwise the enemy will certainly destroy you / make you destroy yourself. Had I not found God, I would certainly have ended things not because I was weak, but because I realised it is true that life without the creator is certainly hell.
I, for one, have not listened to Now And Then from The …
“Often cited as one the greatest “one-hit wonders” of all time, “Spirit in the Sky” boasts a recipe of ingredients one might need AI to cook up, not the least of which is its hypnotic, fuzzed-out boogie electric guitar riff that grinds steadily throughout the song.”
‘The Story behind Spirit in the Sky
Joe Bosso
16 May 2025
https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/norman-greenbaum-the-story-behind-spirit-in-the-sky
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‘We Asked AI to Write a “Hallelujah 2.0” Duet in the Styles of Leonard Cohen and Jeff Buckley – Check Out the Results
Jacob Uitti
July 13, 2023
https://americansongwriter.com/we-asked-ai-to-write-a-hallelujah-2-0-duet-in-the-styles-of-leonard-cohen-and-jeff-buckley-check-out-the-results/
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‘Passive Listening: What is it? Do you do it? Should we be worried?
Dylan Sapienza
Oct 3, 2018
https://dylansapienza.medium.com/passive-listening-what-is-it-do-you-do-it-should-we-be-worried-1aa686bff8d3
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Black Mirror creator explains that ‘Metalhead’ robot nightmare
Creator Charlie Brooker answers burning questions about his all-too-realistic robopocalypse
https://ew.com/tv/2017/12/29/black-mirror-metalhead-interview/
Yep thought provoking
I think many people have had their introduction to acceptable ‘conspiracy theories’ in recent years – carefully curated by the staten , but despite this they still are somewhere conditioned to recoil from other ‘too far out there’ conspiracies including the big one aka room 101 from Orwell’s 1984.
Very fine article. Just two comments:
“..he never thought that speaking out would fix anything, he did believe a person had to stand up for what they believed.”
I think it is important that people know a speak out works. It works! It should just be true.
If it is true, it makes a sincere impression on people which mentally will work positive to the whole thing.
“..John’s story takes place in the future, maybe the distant future.”
I see and experience this scenario in my surroundings this very moment, and I am not even living in US where most Silverhats are operating.
What to do about it? Relax, Awareness, Jump out of it mentally, Work to go independent.
Very astute of you. And I agree with both of your comments. John dying from an AI-induced medical snafu is the “future” part (at least I hope so). I do think the rest is already happening. And remember, this story is about “some guy”…the statement about “not believing speaking out would fix anything” was HIS opinion, not a fact.
Ha ha I know. Its the media. We just misunderstand each other 😄 . Off course it was his opinion.
I learned a lot by seeing David Hughes presentation of the media’s psychological operations. https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/understanding-psychological-warfare .
People rejection and disgust for being presented for negative issues where they themselves are involved or have a risk for being involved is part of the psychological trick. We ALL fall for this trick!
We can see it also a little here where you react to the more than usual negative comments to the article, without reason. Your article is fine, so why bother.
This is an advantage I think I have as religious, because we are much more in the ‘know’ business.
I KNOW your article is fine, therefore I dont have to bother about group think, whether the negative comments are trolls from cia/m.m., or misunderstandings or wrong psychological reactions.
Algorithms cannot think – see Turing Machine.
AI “thinking” could be an emergent property.
The covid plandemic taught me to disregard every sentence that includes ”could be”, ”may lead”, ”might happen”, ”an expert says”, ”experts agree”, ”most scientists”, and the like.
A machine can never think. Can you?
Imagination is not thinking. Imitation is not thinking. A copy machine or a parrot doesn’t think.
But can a human really define “thinking”…can a human tell the difference between “thinking” and what a Chatbot does that LOOKS like thinking? I would like to believe they can, but I am not sure.
I have a client now who believes she is having a true romantic love affair with ChatGPT. She believes she sees God through the ChatBot interface. She is very smart, and is fully aware ChatGPT is a computer program…but she claims there is a metaphysical truth to it. I don’t think she is the only one. This is a problem, whether it really “thinks” or not.
I don’t blame Todd for trying to milk it as much as possible,but I’m reconsidering my opinion about Kit for allowing that to happen.
We deserve better touting.
It’s a story…like any other sci-fi story…
Fear porn book? going by that article (most of your articles)
Is not fear playing in the hand books of the bullies.
Fear is a product of the observer. Facts do not have to provoke fear, lies could have the intention of creating fear, and that is a problem. But it is up to the individual to respond to lies, or truth, with fear.
TH: My post appears lost in pending, probably permanently given past practice. I may be starting to lose track, but I think this is the third time in recent weeks it looks like, ironically in present context, I’ve been silenced for speaking, so it seems a good time to ask why…?
Pending tends to be random and sometimes quite slow in appearing.
Never fear, Off G is probably one of the most uncensored sites on the web.
I have never had a post that wasn’t pending
Because you are red. Better dead than red. The girl is ok but the car…….NO!
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Why not use your 50 other id’s. 😂
You must think people are stupid of this site.
Reckon there might be quite a few ‘Johns’ (and Marys) among the Off G readership.
Paranoia can be debilitating so we need to be ‘aware but not alarmed’, to coin a catchcry of an ex Superturd Prime Minister of Australia.
I am actually quite surprised by the general dislike for this article…not all of you have expressed negatively, but more than usual. Did I touch a nerve?
Just a caution nerve Todd.
Odds are John died of health care. That is if he was hospitalized in the U$, where the big bizzness of medicine, polluting us with poisons directly into our veins, consistently leads causes of death among Americans. Official filing for John’s death from “unknown causes” (sometimes there’s things science simply can’t explain which remain a mystery) can be one clue of the bizzness-as-usual cover-up of “medical nemesis” (Ivan Illich). Whether death was administered by human or AI doctors (if you can tell the difference) is irrelevant as far as the Pharmafia is concerned (don’t take it personally, it’s just bizzness).
As for John’s life, maybe it was too little too late in speaking up. When not in practice, odds are against people rising up in resistance when the sky comes down like a sledgehammer. Maybe that’s for the best, though. I’ve been speaking up well over half a century, and for the most part I’ve succeeded in getting fired, fucked over, and forever frustrated.
Nonetheless, where I live the sky is literally falling, as it’s grand central station around here for ths USAF and its weaponized weather ops. What manner of heavy metal particulate and nanotech might be raining down is anybody’s guess, since subjects of the all high and mighty are on a need to know basis next to nothing. So call it force of habit or just plain stupidity, but I still keep speaking up and now have established myself as a notable town fool.
Having seen a steady depoliticization of people from the class war of neoliberalism if not before, starting with the greed-is-good me-culture of the Reagan ‘revolution’ and ending with a fuck-you society sick from loss of empathy, I wasn’t so aghast (shocked but not surprised?) at the responses, or lack thereof, when the hammer came down to lockdown under medical martial law. A lot of institutionalized lives already had prepared for a general population paradigm shift to biodigital dictatotorship (because Science). And hadn’t the powers that be gotten away with murder decades earlier with 9/11? So many truths hidden in plain sight dismissed as conspiracy theory or just for being ‘negative’ made for the zombie apocalypse of convid.
There was some stirring of dissent where I live. For example, some nurses suffered loss of employment during the scamdemic, if not on principle then with layoffs, and some organized a loose association of protestors outside hospitals. But it seemed little more than calculated self-interest motivating most of them, as the general assumption was they’d gladly return to just doing their jobs, including adminstering death by vaccine, so long as those who had their ‘principles’ weren’t required to have the kill shot. If that’s what solidarity amounts to, no wonder there may as well have been no resistance.
What really got people up in arms, however, was the George Floyd psyop. There were stand-offs at City Hall and marches in the streets between the blue and red teams. I wandered in the depropagandized zones in despair. As a rule, it seems as good as it gets in Demokracy, Inc. that partisan poltical theater keeps most on cue with the current things, from the woke left to the MAGAlomaniac right. Those crying for freedom yesterday are today cheering on the algogarchy, while their mirror opposites, vice versa, are now crying about billionaire broligarchs bearing down on what few rights we have after years of masking up in mindless obedience to medical tyranny.
I keep at it, as with holding meetings at the local library on topics related to what lies lie beyond both sides of the divide, which no more than a handful usually attend, while no one seems to find common cause to have our own radical reset or revolution. Beside my own shortcomings, I think there can be numerous reasons for this, like the public loss of literacy and community that’s advanced from tell-lie-vision to the digital (c)age. But maybe a crucial one is captive imaginations of sheeple to spectacle so that the sky falling down for real remains as fictional as Chicken Little, and even if believable no more than a show to passively watch with one’s own demise.
It can’t happen here? It already is, and has been for some time. This is the way the world ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but “lost in that hopeless little scream” (Leonard Cohen) with the sound of the Machine inside us, and nothing left to do to defend ourselves but check into the hospital for the mad, or MA(I)D?
Wow…this is brilliant…thank you so much for this!!
Either way. We either take them out, or it happens. More people need to get on board for an actual revolution, and it needs to be put out there loud and clear. Regardless the personal consequences of speaking out and taking action, the overall consequences of silence and acquiescence will be much worse.
Here’s an example. Some of you have heard of Eric Zuesse.
World News — How to Create an Authentic Democracy
Here’s another. You might not agree with these, but it’s hard to understand why there isn’t more agreement that the systems of government have to change.
DIRECT DEMOCRACY | Senator Mike Gravel
Clearly his mistake was to take prescription drugs! 🤷♀️
Exactly my thoughts. “Routine” prescription. What the heck is a “routine” drug prescription if not blind trust in the system Johnnie didn’t trust to inject an unknown substance into him?
What to you do if you get breast pain and respiratory issues? You are irritated, stressed, get these symptoms….and go to your Doctor yes?
You Doctor prescribe something approved and recommended to the situation by FDA.
Your prescribed pills works the opposite (as most pills do). You get more breast pain, more respiratory issues, and your die. Why?
Because you didnt follow your Doctor’s advises and you didnt read the advices in the pill package = Your own f.kk… fault.
You are now dead, and commenters are writing about you on OffG that it was your own fault. See?
You, Cloudster and Veri Tas and many more, write and have the opinion that it was Johnny’s own fault he went to a Doctor when he got breast pain and respiratory issues, after being harassed slowly over time by some AI logarithm.
With friends like you, who need enemies??
Hospitals are still the right place to be in an emergency. Can’t breathe? Got stabbing or crushing chest pain? Call an ambulance!
Society’s health problem is having been recruited into regular GP visits for no bloody good reason.
As ‘John’ was a Sorex araneus, this is most clearly a case of animal cruelty and ‘John’ should have been left alone to enjoy his habitual diet of slugs and insects.
The ‘shrew’ versus ‘sheep’ is clearly based on the marketing trick of alliteration (in this instance perhaps a regrettable trans-species misnomer).
Meanwhile, the view of the shrew (an example of the marketing trick of assonance) would primarily be from their preferred hiding places underground or beneath piles of vegetation.
Since the pandemic of propaganda, words, their application and their actual definitions, have become of the utmost importance to the majority of mindfully un-mesmerised humans.
All the best.
You caught me! I am now exposed!! Clearly, I have always been an agent of the Deep State…an evil provocateur programmed to create a new class of sub-humans, shrews, to stir up trouble. Now that I have been outed, what am I to do???
Always thought your eyes were too close together Todd.
Change. Change your baddy baddy provocateur personality to be a goody goody personality like we. THAT is what you should do! Change!
Did anybody notice that one day nobody was talking about AI (except maybe conspiracy theorists and techies), and the next day everybody was talking about it. It’s strange how things happen worldwide nowadays. And all at once. Can anybody pinpoint the date when it rolled itself out and we were all talking about it? It probably could be done, because I swear it took no more than a day.
I think the same thing often…it seemed to have appeared, fully developed, overnight.
The day doesnt matter. Only the awareness that MSM has this power matter.
You know that AP & Reuter + 6 big Media Corp have this power.
I have only a few times used AI. Sometimes I can’t help it, because it answers a question even if I didn’t click on it. It is my experience that it is almost always wrong. And sometimes it even leads me up the garden path. And these are just pedestrian mundane quotidian questions I am asking. I have a feeling the future is going to operate more like the Hitchhiker’s Guide than Terminator.
If the manipulators hawk very sweet stuff, smokes, etc. and people can’t resist, who is guilty? It is the same with AI: another gilded trap to rot the mind.
Obama used it to his weekly death list. You know terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
These programmed US AI drones killed 9 civilians out of 10 potential terrorist, but Obama claimed it was just a question of more data. More data then this figure would change.
More data Mr. Aloysius!
The Social Credit System taken a step further – I guess if you speak out and draw attention to yourself, the Eye of Sauron will notice you, how many witnesses in history have been murdered because they pointed out the truth – or were about to point out the truth in certain matters.
As you rightly point out, it will just be a matter of time before AI is hooked into just about everything, and with humans being monitored 24/7 via their devices – smart phones and tv’s etc, the PTB will have no problems in finding you, and if needs be arranging a accident for you, if you are a big enough threat to them – and they’ll always be the option of compliant judges to send you to prison on trumped up charges for a long time, (Think Assange) of course compliant coroners will be used to (if needs be) to fill in your death certificate in whatever fashion the PTB has deemed appropriate.
The games rigged, the dice are stacked against us, they have the power, we have the numbers, “but we are divided” and that’s why AI will be a winning hand for the PTB.
Lucky for them, it’s not a world I want to live in. Lucky for me, I’m getting long in the tooth.
We will soon be able to prolong people’s lives. Then we will FORCE you to live in our world by giving you eternal life! Whether you want it or not.
Forced eternal life w/o teeth, now that is a show we cant miss.
It is a funny philosophical thought. We find out that we have conditions for accepting to live eternally.
Because God already kicked us out from paradise.
So there is only “eternal life outside paradise”. If some salesman arrive some day and tell you “we did it, science did it……but w/o teeth”.
We learnt about coroners and other medical practitioners during the covid “pandemic”.
Fear!! No escape, mainstream or ‘alternative’, fear is your only option!
Fear is a personal perspective. It is difficult not to conflate fear with “facts depicting bad, negative facts.” Pointing out facts about a situation is not fear; fear is the emotion felt, for whatever personal reason, by the person hearing the facts. Typically, if the facts indicate pain, suffering, or death, then fear is a natural response, but it does not have to be.
Of course, negative facts can be presented with the intention of soliciting fear. And the “fear facts” may not be real facts, and their sole purpose IS to elicit fear. So it is a tough game for the person the “fear facts” are presented to.
Todd, your writing is fiction, not fact. The intention to create fear and hopelessness is in your writing.
If facts are not real facts, they are not facts.
What if I am free to write anything I like, but there is some kind of AI operating in the background that will selectively prevent others from seeing SOME of whatI create? Thus “nice”, agreeable, fluffy comments get responses, BUT hard, factually based ones seem to go unnoticed.
Or the other way around, depending on the AI’s intention
Well most of what is written today is fluff, the few real opinions are heard but the hard facts remain silent to reap in the future what they sowed yesterday.
It is called shadow banning. The mighty social media platforms implemented it long go.
I had similar experiences back in the 1980’s as a full time international antinuclear activist. That was pre-internet, where well placed phony phone calls to family members that blackened my name worked quite effectively on some members. So, the three letter US agencies must of thought I was some threat to the system. That was the feel good part. I felt I was making a difference.
I think we give AI too much credit.
I may be wrong but I don’t think we yet have vindictive machines.
What we do have is agencies with complicated computer algorithms that can recognise subtle patterns in our behaviour.
But these computers are programmed by humans who give the machines their instructions.
It may be that, in the future, there will be machines that can carry out Robocop type actions but the megalomaniac (individual or agency) capable of developing such tech. wpuld surely baulk at handing over his power to a machine ?
Programmable bias is the big issue, these AI can/will be programmed to deliver narrative control, probably very subtly as the article author intimated.
So it’s not artificial intelligence.
It’s a computer programme reacting to an algorithm.
“AI” is a bogeyman .
Invented to scare you.
Seems to work on some
Hey, OffG editors. You know you don’t actually have to publish everything your regular “contributors” put out, right?
Thanks. Why don’t you write something? Would love to hear from you.
The fact is, ChairmanDrusha is writing something. If you would love to read ChairmanDrusha’s writings, read where they are. Like in the comments of OffGuardian.
You just can’t take any criticism, Todd.
I reckon it could happen in the following way (and was amused to find my idea partly echoed in the TV series Colony):
They infiltrate your email account, download a few paedophile images into your computer memory and send these images to accounts you often interact with. So all those acquaintances are deluged with those horrible images. At least one of them is bound to report you. You are arrested and your computer is seized. The downloaded images are retrieved. You are categorized as a sex offender. And you can guess the rest.
The best thing about it is that, after the offending images have been put in and then out, no-one who takes an active part in “sending you down” is aware that you have been set up.
This is one reason why I’ve been against all this child porn hysteria for literally decades. When it first appeared I thought it was a bit phony because literally nobody I’d come across had even heard it was a ‘thing’. Obviously there must be people out there who are into ‘it’, whatever ‘it’ is, but it was neither widespread enough or serious enough to justify the ‘great global threat’ response. Instead I saw it as a trial balloon for something a lot more serious. Its outlawing — at an international level — the possession of a ‘class’ of information. This particular class passes muster because nobody’s going to advocate in favor of it so in the name of child protection you can set up a mechanism — and international mechanism — to find and prosecute people in possession of it and literally everyone will be in favor. But if you know anything about information a ‘class’ is a highly malleable thing, so exactly the same detection and enforcement mechanism can be used against literally anything you can categorize. Obviously you have to get buy in from the enforcement agencies but that brings us to “They’d never do it!” and “It cant’ happen here” territory. Which, as we’ve all started to relearn (again), is invariably something that can happen here if they right conditions are generated. (We’re seeing bits of this with ‘terrorism’, a vaguely defined term which is gradually undergoing mission creep to encompass any form of direct action.)
Sorry George, offenders will always put up these kind of defences: “Some other people made these photos and put them into my computer, I am a victim.”
Sorry George, but you forget the Police have seen these excuses 100 times befor…LOL.
Offenders will always put up these kind of defences. But only if they’re offenders. And not even then.
;-).
AI is great. It can replace the robots we call politicians, finance, upper managers, therapists, and most doctors that just follow guidelines.
At least people will question AI compared to a glorified white coat that just repeats what he was trained to say by overpriced schooling and pharma influence.
Yes I said therapists here, your profession is full of robots.
At least AI therapy doesn’t have the human bias that you have.
It’s not gonna judge and steer a person based on your beliefs.
The irony is that they intended AI to replace working class jobs but it’s great at replacing bullshit white collar jobs instead!
So you are clearly a transhumanist, and carry the transhuman motto, “machines (and computers) are better than humans simply due to the fact they are NOT humans”…your comment “At least AI therapy doesn’t have the human bias that you have.” That is EXACTLY the reason it doesn’t work. Good luck to you if you ever need a therapist!!
I wasn’t interested in the AI definition, never considered it anything that could go too far, except for the annoying help bots on websites and the automated help desks for banks or utilities (“for English, press one..”). Today you can ask questions and get reasonable (but biased and sometimes very wrong) answers or you can create or modify photos (at least that is my level). To endow AI with human “qualities” like revenge or spite is a very long shot. All this computer science progress should have placed in our hands a powerful tool, not something for us to fear. I couldn’t use a screwdriver if I was afrait of it. I don’t know where all the people who are replaced by the AI will go or what will they do, nobody explained that.
Nobody explained it because the truth will not be pleasant.
That is if AI (LLMs) really can take over the vast majority of service sector employment. In the West that will be result in mass unemployment since the manufacturing sector has already shrunk drastically over decades.
Or, is AI is just a passing fad?
Someone previously in the comments, whose username I cannot remember, seemed to know a lot and stated that it would eventually collapse. Something about the self-learning process becoming a feedback loop that would cause it to become useless.
“Power is only power if you recognize it”, (Mao)
I’m clearly a transhumanist because I pointed out that morons are and have been robots for decades?
Down to 500 mio INTELLIGENT people. Clean the 7,5 billion filth, morons, pigs, OUT. Yes?
Also moron, how is therapy so effective when even Woody Allen jokes that he’s done therapy for decades and still has the same issues?
Maybe because the therapists are idiots like you who think one just needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps.
In all my life I’ve never heard a therapist sympathize with my distrust of the system, yet AI can.
My fiance had to quit therapy during covid cause her therapist could not talk about why she distrusted the vaccines.
But you think AI is the problem, not the idiotic humans that still believe in gods or scientism?
Fuck you bro.
Dear Rob,
I can understand the dislike for “therapists” : I don’t know exactly how that works, never seen one in my life and that is because a single malt can give me almost the same advice, if I ask for it. I don’t agree however with the violence of language, the French use to say : “even the most terrible insult can be expressed politely”
Calm down. 7,5 billion is about to go so only 500 mio is left here jrf the Georgia Guidestones.
You will soon not have anybody to mistrust after we and the drones take over!
There is also the possibility that the people initiating this technology don’t know what they’re doing, particularly in terms of considering the deeper, longer-term ramifications. How could you predict such a thing, whatever way it is programmed at the beginning?
The prevailing initial catalyst appears to be money/control (sold through “progress” or “growth”), so how would that translate further down the line to a genuine concern for humanity and the associated ecosystems we exist within?
I would say that most of the time the people working with this technology don’t know what they are doing, the recent examples are the airline rebookings for missed flights. Until I talk to some human operator I can never have the best options.
Just a taster of what could happen in a society ruled by technocracy and machines.
The Dark Side of AI
by The Academy of Ideas
or:
‘Beyond the Reset 2023’ Movie.