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We’re Heroes Of Our Own Lives
Life often seems brutal and impossible but we’re coping with gaslighting and building our lives for ourselves better than ever before
This is what I learned from the new AI that’s being sent out to “convince” people that our contemporary work lives, low pay, and poor working conditions are essential to the success of … what?
Capitalism? The U.S.? One of the political parties?
As I’ve written before, I’ve learned through experience that nearly everything I was taught in school or other organizations (scouting, church, etc) is untrue. People told me these lies, or they were written in texts or illustrated in video form. Tech tools now are joining in, creating “personas” online and spreading content that mimics human behavior via social media. Mimics — it’s still pretty easy to tell whether you’re talking with AI or a human. This is just one of the many publically-available tools: imagine what’s going on behind the scenes! What tools like this do is break up longer pieces of content: instructions, articles, studies, books, videos — and take bits of them and use them as social media posts or responses. You know, like when you read something, learn from it, and share it with others. “I read that …” or “I heard that …”
