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Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
joepie91@slightly.tech ("Sven Slootweg, low-spoons mode ("still kinky and horny anyway")") wrote:
Something that I didn't realize wasn't universally known, but it apparently isn't.
That idea that you're being "left behind" or "staying in the stone age" if you don't start using AI? It's not real. I know that it feels real, and like it's everywhere around you, but it's not. You are intentionally being made to feel this way.
This is a propaganda technique that was perfected in the cryptocurrency/NFT industry, using FOMO and peer pressure to draw you into investment scams because it seemed like everything around you was starting to adopt it. But that was still a pretty limited scale.
AI companies do the same thing, except at a global scale. That's why there's the constant claims about what AI models can supposedly do, that are debunked two days later. And why everybody talks about how much money they're putting into it. And the constant doom trolling about how AI will 'take over the world'.
The whole point of all of this is to make it *feel* inevitable, to make it feel bigger than it really is in everyone's lives, to make you feel like everyone *else* is accepting it and you're the only weird old fossil who doesn't like it. None of it is real, even if it feels that way.