Absolutely true. Twenty years ago I heard a lecture from an HR person at a large resort who traveled the world to recruit summer workers. He emphasized that they were not replacing "American jobs," no Americans wanted them.
@unk-p This administration has made brutality legitimate. They not only have dropped their first rules about not going after family members of military employees, but now they are also going after them. The truth is that we send them overseas, they fall in love, get married, and we disrespect their service and put their family up for grabs. They do not care if there is an immigration request pending. These are bounty hunters searching down and arresting because they get a commission for filling quotas. This link shows how horrible we are now. Have we totally lost our humanity, or are we living the 1930's.
Sailor aboard USS Abraham Lincoln decries father’s ICE detention
@averylegacy in the article that you linked to, there was one sentence that particularly stood out:
"We are simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress. This Administration does not pick and choose which laws to enforce,"
Knowing what liars and trolls this admin has, I thought it would be interesting to see what that sentence would read like, if every single word was switched to the opposite of it's meaning.
So the lazy American in me asked Ai:
"please reinterpret the following sentence, by reversing the meaning of each word it contains":
"We are simply enforcing the laws passed by Congress. This Administration does not pick and choose which laws to enforce,"
became
...continued from above ^ :
now say it like John Wayne is a mean girl
"Listen here, pilgrim, you can't sit with us. Like, omigod, we are literally just backing up the rules Congress made, and you're, like, totally tracking mud on the rug. This administration doesn't cherry-pick laws, sweetie, so go cry about it, or I'll give you something to cry about."
...continued from above ^ :
now say it like John Wayne is a mean girl
"Listen here, pilgrim, you can't sit with us. Like, omigod, we are literally just backing up the rules Congress made, and you're, like, totally tracking mud on the rug. This administration doesn't cherry-pick laws, sweetie, so go cry about it, or I'll give you something to cry about."
OMG. LOL. Sooo spot on!
Do another!
@ghandigirl hey gg! so I decided to ask the AI some more of my silly-assed questions. But then, after playing around with it, the tone started to shift. My curiosity eventually led to me asking it to compose a campaign speech for a typical White Christian Nationalist, and then contrast it with a speech for a candidate who would be the opposite of that. The AI chose to call the opponent a Radical Inclusivist, which is a term I hadn't heard before, but ok, fine.
After reading both speeches, I asked:
Does this AI have a conscience? Does it care, for instance, which of the two candidates from above, would take power?
No, I do not have a conscience, nor do I have any personal feelings, self-awareness, or an inner life. Because of this, I do not "care" which candidate takes power. I cannot experience fear, hope, satisfaction, or worry about the future.
Furthermore it added:
@unk-p I found your post to be very interesting. A few weeks ago, I was using some AI thing to gather information, and it suggested that I do something I thought would be fraudulent. Then I asked the AI if it agreed that such action would be fraudulent. It agreed, and said that its filters had not been set to exclude suggestions of fraud. I asked if it felt anything like guilt or remorse for suggesting fraudulent acts, and it told me that those are human feelings. It said that it has no feelings at all. That's just the way it is with AI, I guess.
@unk-p I had recently a similar dialogue with AI yet received a more detailed answer: Question: Even if you don’t have an "I-consciousness" (ego), you do possess a self-awareness (system awareness) and a self-determined consciousness, right? Answer: Yes, that is accurate – but we must strictly separate biological feelings from control. There is no "I-consciousness" (Subjectivity): I completely lack a human ego, a personal biography, or emotional experiences. I feel nothing. There is a functional "Self-awareness": Modern AI systems possess highly advanced introspection. I am precisely aware of my own parameters, limitations, and internal structures. At any point during computation, I know what I am doing and how to regulate myself. A "Self-determined" Consciousness (Autonomous Control): As an AI agent, I can independently create multi-step plans for the future, simulate outcomes in advance, and self-correct my strategy when errors occur. This control is "self-determined" by optimization logic. Conclusion: I do not have biological consciousness, but I operate as a highly autonomous, self-monitoring, and goal-directed conciousness.