The news, the search engines, the social media, the LLMs…they’re all owned by a small club of billionaires.
We make all these references and parallels to the surveillance state of 1984 but we forget what the protagonist’s occupation is. When we read it the concept seemed absurd. How do you edit history in-place? All those newspapers, the microfiche, the libraries…there’s just no way.
Nowadays, though, it seems that it would be exceptionally easy, and likely already happening. Though not as in your face as directly editing newspapers, the algorithms are no doubt tainted, as is the narrative on the evening news.
There are 1000s of open source LLMs on hugging face alone. You can download them for free and run them if your system can handle it.
Each LLM is a compressed artifact of all of human history. There is absolutely no way to control a narrative anymore. History can no longer be rewritten by the powerful.
The news, the search engines, the social media, the LLMs…they’re all owned by a small club of billionaires.
We make all these references and parallels to the surveillance state of 1984 but we forget what the protagonist’s occupation is. When we read it the concept seemed absurd. How do you edit history in-place? All those newspapers, the microfiche, the libraries…there’s just no way.
Nowadays, though, it seems that it would be exceptionally easy, and likely already happening. Though not as in your face as directly editing newspapers, the algorithms are no doubt tainted, as is the narrative on the evening news.
There are 1000s of open source LLMs on hugging face alone. You can download them for free and run them if your system can handle it.
Each LLM is a compressed artifact of all of human history. There is absolutely no way to control a narrative anymore. History can no longer be rewritten by the powerful.
Ask grok what it thinks of Elon musk.