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AI DISCUSSION
The sources, attributed to Guy Lakeman, offer a critical analysis of artificial intelligence (AI), advertising, and their detrimental impact on social cohesion and individual perception, particularly in Western society. Lakeman argues that while open-source, personally-owned machine intelligence holds promise for providing truth through reasoned judgment, public AI chatbots reflect a majority easily manipulated by fear and consumerism, echoing the "rabble" observed by Plato. The texts trace the roots of current social dysfunction to post-1950s TV advertising, which redefined success through competitive consumption of "bright shiny objects," a concept now amplified by Big Tech's use of AI targeting. Specifically, the author explains that advertisers manipulate the preferred word weight and consensus within Large Language Models (LLMs) through targeted statistics, overriding true probability and reinforcing a cycle of manufactured consent, a process identifiable through feedback control theory. The suggested solution is to monitor the neural connection weights in public AI systems to counteract the subversive influence of commercial and political pressure groups.
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