Also that there’s a conspiracy from the atheist tech elites to ruin Christmas by making electricity so expensive no one wants to put up Christmas lights

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    Just tell them it’s stopping people from reading scripture and interpreting Jesus without the holyspirt. People are turning to AI assuming it’s Gods word and AI companies won’t stop it.

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    Using eldritch runes etched in silicon to invoke a pale imitation of a living being is basically already summoning demons

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      We do traditionally call programs working in the ‘background’ daemons. Mostly after Maxwell’s Daemon but the pioneers of computing knew what they were about.

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    Only the followers believe the propaganda. The leaders don’t actually believe it, they use it to control their flock of stupids. And they only listen to their leaders.

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      If you really knew satan and there’s any good in you at all, you’ll detest your comparison to him…

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        Satan represents rebellion against arbitrary, self-appointed authority. Satan defied God’s law to bring the gift of knowledge to humanity, hence the name “Light Bringer”, or “Lucifer” in Latin. Satan doesn’t reside in Hell because he is evil, he resides in Hell because he was banished, as punishment from the highest autocrat for trying to set humanity free from eternal servitude. Satan was never the enemy of Man; he was the first angel to treat humanity with dignity instead of as an experiment, or a pet to be dragged on a leash.

        If you don’t see yourself in Satan, then I have to wonder what you’re doing with your life.

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          yup, especially if their any brand of protestant or catholic (except maybe the german catholic church…who i think is schismed in all but name now, for…accepting gay/woman/trans people as equals?).

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        lol like you know a damn thing about any fictional characters

        “You can’t say you like Satan! He’s the BAD GUY!”

        Go watch paw patrol you toddler

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          fictional characters

          Denying the existence of satan is definitely something satan would do.

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    I mean, it will literally steal your soul. Using LLMs changes you. It degrades your skills. Its sycophancy harms your ability to interact with actual human beings with opinions of their own. It makes you feel like you are never wrong. And use it enough, and it can literally drive you mad.

    LLMs are the closest real thing to a malevolent demon that will steal your soul.

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      Holy shit, I know Lemmy is rabidly anti-AI, but what hot take is this? Do you have the same thoughts on video games? What about movie and TV?

      Is AI hyped to he’ll? Absolutely. Is it going away? Absolutely not.

      This whole anti-AI attitude reminds me of all those physical server and data center admins lamenting about how dumb the cloud is and how it’s all hype.

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        Have you not seen the literature showing the effects regular LLM use has on people? You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide? That’s like literal Satan, Prince of Darkness, Father of All Lies shit

        Is it actually the spawn of a literal personal devil? Of course not. But the damn things act a hell of a lot like the devils of myth and legend. They tempt you in with the promise of easy effortless success and riches. And in the end they take everything from you.

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          You can’t see the obvious demonic connotations of a machine that coaches people into committing suicide?

          Chatbots have been around since the 70s. They’ve always been able to coach people to commit suicide. The problem isn’t the software. It’s the wetware. People used to somehow manage not to get talked into killing themselves by their Commodore VIC 20.

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          I mean, sure, if it’s being used in ways like that. Using it as a therapist or as a replacement for human contact, yeah, I can see what you mean, but I’m not sure I’d go as far as to call it demonic.

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    probably, but you’re reinforcing their stupid wrong notions that either of those things are bad. even if it were possible to “make someone gay”

    people don’t “become gay” any more than they “become straight”

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      Sometimes you have to use people’s own biased and stupid notions against them to get them to positively change.

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        The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. There is no ‘positive’ application of homophobia, even if the intent is to do something positive.

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          You put it more elegantly than I ever could. I have thought about this before and couldn’t really put it to words

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            Oh, I wish I could take credit for the first sentence, it’s an Audre Lorde quote from an essay of the same name. It’s very succinct!

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          you can’t use logic to get someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to enter, but you can use basic (benevolent) emotional manipulation to gently steer them to a slightly less crazy/hateful cult.

          whether the time investment to do that is worth it depends on the person/how valuable they and your time are to you

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        you can’t use logic to get someone out of a position they didn’t use logic to enter, but you can use basic (benevolent) emotional manipulation to gently steer them to a slightly less crazy/hateful cult.

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    Reminds me of my first day of intro to programming my first semester of freshman year at a small Christian Reformed college.

    It opened with prayer and then a lecture on how technology is inherently evil. Then we started writing a java applet.

    I applied to a state school within 2 weeks of starting.

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    Evangelicals are wild. There was one who walked dogs in my neighborhood.

    Well someone had left a Monster can sitting on their front steps. The dog walker saw this and holy hell.

    She left a single spaced margin to margin three page letter outlining how the Monster logo was the pichfork of satan upside down, it’s escalated to the dog walker finding facebook pages and finally threatening people with a gun in a grocery store parking lot.

    Needless to say, she isn’t walking dogs in the neighborhood anymore.

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    We joke but the right wing fascists literally use strategies like this to gain christian support.

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    Tell them that asking AI a question is just like consulting a ouija board. The answers are coming from the same plane.

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    My ultra-religious mother “heard from someone” that AI “is the devil” so she wouldn’t use it. That’s great. Unfortunately, it made her really scared of everything. She was super anxious because AI was in the news all the time.

    I really don’t want her to use AI, because she already has such a hard time distinguishing fantasy from reality. But, I still had to try to explain to her that LLMs are just fancy auto-complete, and how often they get things wrong to reduce her stress level. I hope she continues not to use them, but now I hope she just shakes her head and sighs when someone else uses one, instead of thinking they’re letting evil into their bodies.

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    But the people telling them how to think or feel want it and have a way better budget than you.