oh we’re like half a step away from that. hasn’t the CEO of openAI recently started to lose his mind? apprently, he was asking his AI about government secrets or other conspiracy shit and the AI, lacking actual government secrets, dished him out SCP foundation creepypasta presented as facts, and he thought the AI has trascended something and now knows everything
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Novamdomum@fedia.io 1 month ago
Just wait till someone turns AI worship into a literal religion. I'm kinda surprised it hasn't already started happening. That would be a heck of a turning point for humanity. Just takes someone to train an AI into thinking it's a God and then we really are done.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
That wasn't Sam Altman, (un)fortunately, you must be thinking of a certain OpenAI investor: https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
How to have a bad time:
Have cyberpsychos in charge of building an AI.
What could go wrong?!
tomiant@programming.dev 1 month ago
I’ve been saying this for yeeears. People shouldn’t be near as afraid of AI as they should be of the people in charge of it.
InputZero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There have been a few techno-cults and tech-worshipers. The one that always comes to my mind in these discussions is Terry Davis and his creation Temple OS. Terry Davis was a troubled man who did many inappropriate things, which did hurt people, and he did eventually take his own life. With that said, he believed that the Christian God exists and a person can hear him through computers. With that belief he built Temple OS, God’s digital temple. It’s really interesting.
zaphod@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Roko’s Basilisk is about halfway there.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
This is already happening, we just call them cults untill they get enough people, then they’re a religion.
Wonderful example of this: Mormons!
Every non Mormon viewed them (correctly) as an armed and dangerous cult, for decades, initially.
But anyway, there already are many individuals and small groups promoting some kind of idea of an LLM based spiritual thought structure, its not really that hard to just use an LLM as a tarot or horoscope reader, or invent your own kind of AI-mancy, a particular ritualistic /way/ of interacting with it, and /interpreting/ it.
You can basically work that into any religious structure that involves prophets or mystical messaging/revelation, pretty easily.
What wss the old Queens Against the Stone Age song?
I know that God is in the radio…
Well, now he/she/they’re in the computer, they’re talking to you through it, as a literal deus ex machina.
On that note, the actual game Deus Ex predicted this would happen, go look up JC’s conversation with Morpheus… the prototype of a much larger system AI.
We’ve also already got a good number of fairly credible accusations that the people building these things effectively are cults, more or less analagous to … say some 40k aedeptus mechanicus who became chaos worshippers, something like that.
We very seriously should expect a whole lot of people in the near future to invent entirely new kinds of religious conflict based on more or less pure vibes based, arbitrary opinions about how LLMs/AI and religion should or should not mix.
In times of economic chaos, people broadly almost always become more superstitious, cults become more numerous, religions become more prevalent and more extreme.
HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
This is a very good idea actually.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Already a thing, they call it “Rationalism,” and it’s fucking insane.
tomiant@programming.dev 1 month ago
How out of the loop are you people? That has been a thing for a while, we’ve got more than a handful high profile AI religions and cults out there already…
pticrix@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I mean, some ideologies in the TESCREAL bundle kinda are barreling toward that. What is the ideology behind Roko’s Basilisk of not that? They just aren’t organized yet - and I hope we can help those who fall for that lunacy before it becomes something more dangerous and sinister.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, the Effective Altruisme weirdos are hard into AI religion.
Corelli_III@midwest.social 1 month ago
nice to see other people finally clocking TESCREAL
Novamdomum@fedia.io 1 month ago
Wow... there's already labels for the sides that would fight each other: "Accelerationists" and "Doomers". I really hope that's not a road we all end up going down for real. Would make interesting fiction though!