ICYMI: Last year, I started a series called “AI and I” on my website: CarlaGericke.com.
This is where I connect dots, explore my own bat-shit hypothesizes, and force summaries of inconvenient truths.
Some days, I break GROK with Divine Science. Sometimes, the LLMs go sideways in ways that make you go, Hmm?!? (See pic above.)
The purpose of the series is mostly academic: To create a record of what was said by a certain LLM at a given moment about a topic. To be able to test responses later to spot differences and try to understand why.
It is also a wild ride through my own mind, my imagination, my understanding of the world, my critical thinking skills, my humanity… discovering what I know, what I think I know, don’t know, and do know. Like, yanno, “Natural Immunity “is a thing, whether the government tells you it is or not.
Knowing stuff independently matters in order to defend against external manipulation.
The LLMs are particularly helpful in synthesizing propaganda narratives and mind control arcs. E.g. Figuring out how the L/R paradigm flips every 15 years or so by tracking the language used. Or, say, by analyzing how meme-seeding is deployed to control narratives, as was done during Covid. “AI and I” serves, in part, as a digital footnote to understand how people fall for Big Lies.
As Grokipedia put it: “On her personal website, Gericke maintains a series of essays titled “AI and I,” examining artificial intelligence’s implications for perception, policy, and societal narratives.”
Of all the hats I wear, truth-seeking is my crown.
As I watch some Libertarians turn into Authoritarians, it is valuable to understand how they are being manipulated, even if they don’t understand it themselves.
The desire for power is a heady drug. Add attention ensnarement and dopamine/adrenaline addiction, and you have a recipe for disaster. That disaster has now spilled into my community. May the free thinkers prevail.
[PS: I was looking for a different photo, and ran across this screenshot, and it reminded me to mention I was surprised Grokipedia drew from the “AI and I” series for this profile: https://www.carlagericke.com/ai-and-i-grokpedia-gets-me/]