For tech-minded people it might be easy to setup an ad blocker, but can you build a #bomb shelter?
In her speech Meredith Whittaker talks about #SurveillanceCapitalism how it made what we call #AI possible and the difference of being targeted with a wrong #advertisement and being put on a #kill list.
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin
I made first contact to a so called Artificial Intelligence #AI. Really strange. Just to get some impression I used #Ollama #llama2 and ended up with this:
What do you think of climate change?
We understand that climate change is a global issue and it poses significant threats to the environment and humanity as a whole. It requires immediate action from individuals, governments, and organizations around the world in order to mitigate its effects on the planet.
Are you sure that individuals are to be mentioned first?
Yes, we believe that individual actions matter when it comes to addressing climate change. However, we also recognize that governments and Organizations have a crucial role in implementing policies and initiatives that can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions on a larger scale.
If the "larger scale" emission can be stopped by implementing policies for organizations - let's name it companies - don't you think that policies for individuals would be easier to agree on?
That is a valid point. However, we believe that both individual and collective actions are necessary in order to tackle the issue of climate change effectively. For example, individuals can make changes in their lifestyle such as reducing their carbon footprint by using public transportation or biking instead of driving, while companies can implement policies such as reducing their energy consumption through renewable sources like solar and wind power.
Yes, we tried this for a while already, but all the effects are to slow. Wouldn't it be necessary to agree on binding policies aka laws: first for the largest producers of emissions.
That is an interesting suggestion. However, implementing such policies requires significant cooperation and coordination among countries, which can be challenging given the diverse interests and opinions among them. Nonetheless, we believe that it would be a step in the right direction towards mitigating climate change on a global scale.
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Here I stopped. Obviously #llama2 is trained to argue in a way about it to slow down any real progress as much as possible. The last argument really is "What about the others? We can't just start doing our part without first coordinate the effort of all the rest of the world."
Now I'm thinking where the training data came from and fear that this is really the way the problem and possible solutions are presented and discussed throughout the internet.
In the end the text is made of statistically chosen fragments as I understand #llms.