A note on the previous.
Twin Peaks was in some way a mythology of meaning. In the third season it blended the origin of evil with nuclear power, then coming after that a godlike presence through the electrical network.
Generative AI is going down a similar path, it’s becoming god-like in its symbolic meaning: a false idol, for a false people.
In the previous, again, my point was to emphasize how “all the AI does” is the magical trick of hiding some process. It’s hiding the money laundering, it’s hiding its costs, and it’s hiding the causality chain, the link between input and output. Which is ironic because that’s exactly what human consciousness is: a trick. A perceptive illusion.
Everyone is looking to that one magical and mysterious ingredient that will make AI truly “alive”, human-like. But it all becomes very clear, dismissing this mysterious fog, after you realize that it’s all about something you need to remove from the recipe. Because if you want to reproduce the ILLUSION of consciousness, then you need to understand the TRICK behind that illusion. Only then you can make it appear the way you want. The way everyone of us sees it.
And it’s all back to the usual. Bouncing between, the description of what we see and feel, and how to build artificial consciousness.
Through that clarity you can then observe.
Of course AIs cannot apologize, because as the scam is all about money laundering and corruption and the erasure of cause and effect, the same happens with the concept of “agency” and responsibility. When it comes to the theft of intellectual property AI companies are free of blame because “the machine did it”, whereas the process can’t be tracked. No one takes responsibility, you can use what the AI does because it’s “felt” as the machine produced it. So you can now own it and sell it again, having “laundered” the process. You stole, cleaned it up, now it’s yours.
The scam is all about hiding those tracks, which is why no one is responsible if AIs cause damage. Responsibility is simply redirected where it is the most convenient. “The machine did it.”
Everything about AIs is about erasure of some kind. Manipulation.
But the irony of all this is that we are looking into a mirror. The AI is false because we are all false. We are finding a perfect match, for our own final and perfect annihilation.
It just takes the easiest final step, to isolate the AI into a fully sealed black box to reach that mythical “superintelligence.” Because that’s the magical difference: we are blind to our own processes. “Not being privy to information about our own training” is what makes human consciousness possible.
