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Why AI’s hallucinations are like the illusions of narcissism

Why AI’s hallucinations are like the illusions of narcissism | Psyche Ideas

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A good performer knows how to pull in an audience with their movement, with their breathing, with their intention. They’re bringing way more than the dance steps to the stage,” she says. “When you’re working with robots, you don’t have that.”

Dance Artists Are Playing a Significant Role in the Development of Robotic Technologies

What’s more, because our brains don’t fire the same way when we’re watching a robot as when we’re watching humans, artists can leverage how machines can alter an audience’s perception of choreography. “We relate to their movement totally differently,” Cuan says. “With robots, your mirror neurons don’t map it to your own experience as they do when... See more

Dance Artists Are Playing a Significant Role in the Development of Robotic Technologies

Robotics, role of the artist

It’s not hard to see how the problem will continue to grow as AI burrows ever deeper into our everyday lives. Elon Musk has tinkered with the AI chatbot Grok to produce information that conforms to his personal beliefs rather than to actual facts. This outcome does not even have to be intentional. Chatbots have been shown to validate and intensify... See more

It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist

The algorithms of YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and X, which operate on the principle that rage is engaging, have turned into radicalization machines.

It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist

nformation technology is, after all, also misinformation technology.

It’s never been easier to be a conspiracy theorist

nd that I think is one of the most

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impressive things about resistance is do not accept the

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the super poisoned tacky images of AI

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which of course anybody could even confuse that with reality. You say what are you looking at? What can you not

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tell about a human being and ideas and feelings and stuff? And for me, the AI

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thing is so... See more

The Art of Refuge, Resistance and Regeneration with Peter Sellars

a lot of us are thinking of and that we can just think of together uh which is a lot more interesting. I started off with

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um you know like six months ago with the idea of refuge

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of resistance and of regeneration.

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But I got a feeling a couple more Rs are in there like repair.

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Yeah. and and reconciliation, which is how do we actually... See more

The Art of Refuge, Resistance and Regeneration with Peter Sellars

nd that I think is one of the most

48:04

impressive things about resistance is do not accept the

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the super poisoned tacky images of AI

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which of course anybody could even confuse that with reality. You say what are you looking at? What can you not

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tell about a human being and ideas and feelings and stuff? And for me, the AI

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thing is so popular just because it has no moral energy.

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Like there's no right or wrong. There's just stuff. And in fact, the thing that is needed in

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this world is moral energy. Is like this is acceptable and this is not acceptable. And this is who we're going

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to be and this is who we're not going to be. Which is what we feel as human beings every moment of our lives.