Post by @theogrin@chaosfem.tw

2026-09-19 18:44 UTC

Dear news reporters: I do not care how many movies you watched in the 1980s and 1990s. The Terminator, let alone SKYNET, does not exist. We have not gotten to the point in which Durandal and Leela will fight to take over a space station. JOSHUA is not going to stop projecting nuclear winter and instead opt to play a game of chess. Number Five is not, despite how cute he may be, alive. Computers are still computers are still computers and will only do what a human being programs them to do, and people are stupid. Stop assigning them agency. Say that "Microsoft created an automatic hacking program which was inadequately contained." Assign the blame CORRECTLY, because you cannot blame a computer, it's doing exactly what it's programmed to do. OpenAI is a dead slab of metal and electrons arranged to mimic a human face and if you refuse to see that then you're as brain-dead as any chunk of silicon. #ai #llms #infosec #computing

Replies (8)

@Space_Burger_Steve@mstdn.ca 2026-09-19 22:24

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw Past Humans 🤝 Future Humans Idolizing Pareidolia

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@HikerGeek@mas.to 2026-09-19 23:50

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw I am an agnostic with strong humanist tendencies. So to me humans aren't animated by any special spiritual force. We are complex machines that use biologically formed components. Then silicon systems of sufficient complexity could be just as alive as us. When "standard" AI computers start incorporating quantum computers they may be more in touch with the universe than we are. Thinking LLM's just do what they are programmed to do isn't seeing this clearly. LLM's program themselves during training and we aren't really sure what they are programming themselves to do.

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@Kalshann@mastodon.social 2026-09-19 18:47

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw The millions spent on PR by the ai companies seems to have turned the talking heads brains inside out.

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@mxchara@cyberpunk.lol 2026-09-19 19:14

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw it's the "optimism" biting them in the butt, if you ask me: the tech reporters are really just tech groupies, shamelessly promoting and touting their favorite brands, so now that the brands are pivoting to apocalyptical marketing the tech groupies are going right along with it

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@rubixhelix@kolektiva.social 2026-09-19 19:50

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw hard agree. https://kolektiva.social/@rubixhelix/117281908199434253

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@estelle@mstdn.social 2026-09-19 21:28

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw cory booker was delivering a pretty long speech on cnn the other day about the dangers of ai and the need for regulation, and here's his membership in peter thiel's dialog society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Dialog_event_participants#In_registration_records_for_2026_event

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@LordCaramac@discordian.social 2026-09-19 22:11

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw While I think it is possible to build something like an artificial mind, LLMs can only be a small piece of the whole puzzle. If we really want intelligent machines, we need to start with the low-level intelligence of simple animals like insects or worms, then slowly working up the complexity ladder until we reach something like the level of vertebrates. What #AI research has doing for most of the last ~70 years since the term "artificial intelligence" was invented, amounts to building the roof and the upper floors of the house before everything else. LLMs are a perfect example of that, building a language processing system without anything underneath. Autonomous cars or autonomous robot swarms are much more intelligent than any LLM, yet they're still pretty stupid if you compare them with actual animals.

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@computernut43@nexto.my 2026-09-20 06:36

@theogrin@chaosfem.tw and its software... that humans control. 👀

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