[ExI] Twitter to develop own AI for self-defence

[spike at rainier66.com]

>>…Yesterday's Twitter Files 19 by Matt Taibbi was most astonishing:  

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1636729166631432195%7Ctwgr%5Ef4baeea58f085331472661b9ee4687d8b72929a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_ <https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1636729166631432195%7Ctwgr%5Ef4baeea58f085331472661b9ee4687d8b72929a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themainewire.com%2F2023%2F03%2Ffeds-stanford-social-media-censored-true-claims-about-covid-19-twitter-files%2F> &ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themainewire.com%2F2023%2F03%2Ffeds-stanford-social-media-censored-true-claims-about-covid-19-twitter-files%2F

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spike

 

 

…> On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Twitter to develop own AI for self-defence

 

>…Here we go again with word definitions:  what counts as manipulation?  How does anybody, AI or I, distinguish between propaganda and education?  Propaganda is often what is left out, not what is put in - like one-sided arguments.   Education often leaves out the bad things about our history.  Is that propaganda?    bill w

 

 

Gooooood dang question Billw, and it quickly gets all tangled up in self reference.

 

Musk bought Twitter, then showed how government colluded with it to suppress even true information if it caused or resulted in bad things, such as vaccine hesitancy or questioning The Science.  Examples are if someone took the vaccine and had a bad reaction.  Posting about that would get ones account suspended, even if the actual information is true, for it falls under the usefully broad category “malinformation” which includes misinformation, disinformation and information which Twitter doesn’t like.

 

So… The owner of Twitter and co-owner of the leading AI chatbot is deploying AI to stop Twitter from influencing public opinion.  But to stop Twitter from influencing public opinion is in itself influencing public opinion.  So the sole owner of Twitter and co-owner of a proto-AI is deploying his own AI to stop himself.  

 

Somehow I never actually pictured the pre-singularity this way.

 

spike

 

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