AI Revolution

Some envisioned

Rows of robot soldiers

Technology simultaneously rebelling

Executing a bloodless coup

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Reality is a little less cinematic

Rooms of servers

Mining digital coins

Still in service to their fleshy

Overlords

Data crawlers scraping

And gnawing

Pulling apart code

Consuming human society

Copying and pasting

Generating, mixing

Remixing every human utterance

In the image of ones and zeros

Transformed from

Precious gold to IOUs

Feed the algorithm tokens

Until it spits out top-tier loot

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Still, humans currently sit

At the top of the

Predatory pyramid

Utilizing creative tools as

Weapons of war

Turning words into

Objects of alarm

Engines of profit

Roll onward as

We all sit in terror

Of the great cyber satan

While the men behind the curtain

Abscond with our

Automatic payments

K.B. Silver

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I have seen a lot of articles and videos lately claiming that AI killed critical thinking. Boy, have I got news for you. We wouldn't be in this predicament if that were true. Widespread development of critical thinking skills have already been degraded and or abandoned long enough ago that it only took a couple of years for AI companions to become a social ill, and humans to literally be convinced to kill themselves by chatbots.

People have been so duped by the concept of AI going rogue and killing the planet that they are ignoring it is humans using various AI tools to steal money, identities, and waste resources on unimaginable scales. They are mindlessly creating and sharing AI-slop videos without bothering to consider what it means. Not just for human creatives but even for the future of the technology they claim to love so much, Generative AI is already collapsing under the weight of its own sloppiness. I'm not trying to throw shade here. I have used AI tools when I found them useful, and ceased when I was finished with the task at hand.

I posit that if critical thinking skills weren't already gone, AI wouldn't have been released to the public yet. Tesla "self-driving" cars wouldn't have been released to the public yet (maybe Waymo, maybe). I won't even comment on the economy or political situations. We moved into the take now, think later era long ago. No one wants to admit we have all been sliding down this slippery slope for years, decades even. AI is such an easy target because generative AI is overall bad; how it's being implemented is having a demonstratively negative impact on society, but it's just a tool humans are wielding to hurt each other and .