By the way this proves indirecrly that basically all existing states are capitalist since all of them are in the "ai race"

*more convoluted

Capitalism spends fantastically in this jester stuff. Its role in the capitalist society is less convoluted than the role of more concrete industries. My comment is that capitalism in itself is religious and deploys these proxy religions as part of its own reigning logic to regulate power.

Capitalism permeates both, but the place both these modes have in the capitalist metareligion are different.

The error is thinking of "tech" as a monolithic thing. It's like confusing zen monasteries with christian megachurches with helipads. Actual technology is not the same as performative technology. Same e.g. "discourse" (pseudointellectualism) vs the actual industry of thought (research).

Capitalism only actually produces things (e.g. "industry") incidentally. It's always being gamed towards selling fake things (fast scams) or some kind of religion. The "tech" industry started migrating to religion/propaganda when people started talking about "evangelizing."

A revolution of any kind, if it is a thing at all, is about connection. It's about people giving deeper meaning and appreciation for each other's words.

Business is about buyers and sellers. It's fast and disposable.

There's a tweet somewhere about our brains having evolved to eat berries in a cave. Capitalist competition breaks people. Body and mind.

And to make this worse, another problem here is that to the non expert, "how plausible and organized something is" is used as a proxy for how correct it is. Absolutely crazy nonsense *presented* in the organized, coherent language of power is at its face more convincing because of its facade.

The content is still obviously delusional to anyone reading it. It’s just organised crazy. But the real danger is the internal effect on the user. The AI provides coherence and validation, stabilising the narrative they’re caught in.

I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery.

This will get someone killed sooner or later.

A nontrivial fraction of these people appear to be seriously unwell.

OpenAI claims that they have the situation well under control.

My inbox suggests otherwise.