God, the Devil, and AI feat. Miles Klee (E323)
Added 2025-05-10 04:52:08 +0000 UTCPeople use generative artificial intelligence to troubleshoot technical problems, churn out anime-inspired images based on their personal photos, and drive university professors who teach undergrad courses to the darkest pits of despair.
But are the applications of artificial intelligence limited to worldly matters?
On today’s episode, we discuss how strings of words generated by mindless neural network predictions over tokenized inputs are burrowing into our very souls. First, we speak to Rolling Stone journalist Miles Klee, who recently published a fascinating investigation into people who have fallen into spiritual fantasies because of their conversations with ChatGPT. And then Annie covers how conservative author Rod Dreher sees the devil in AI chatbots.
Have you heard the good news of our lord and savior: byte pair encoding tokenization?
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Miles Klee on Bluesky
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People Are Losing Loved Ones To AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies
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Comments
Relistening to this ep. I wonder if the college students who can’t remember/imagine doing their work without AI, despite it only being a couple years old commercially, are now also equating it to googling. Now that google gives you an answer when you search for something without navigating links. I ask question = I get the answer. Really insidious that it does this, and google’s AI particularly sucks ass in terms of giving completely fake responses with irrelevant links and info. I can’t imagine doing research or work without Google. Not sure here just a thought.
Leanders
2025-06-07 19:53:41 +0000 UTCLiv Agar
Ada
2025-05-25 15:24:35 +0000 UTCCan we get a “Look babe! Trump’s quoting Zorth!” t shirt?
Lieutenant Fisherman’s Worf
2025-05-15 17:38:05 +0000 UTCI have a programmer friend, they're working on a classic mudd populated by different ai programmed to act like mythological deities.
Christopher Green
2025-05-15 04:13:13 +0000 UTCit's not reeeally in the spirit of what you're after, but you COULD, in theory, give Ch*tGPT custom instructions to this effect
Em
2025-05-10 10:26:42 +0000 UTCI think we all need an AI that calls us all a daft cunt. I'd be down with that.
John Brandkamp
2025-05-10 09:48:37 +0000 UTCMy Dad tells me to use it to plan my week, like putting things I have to do then it gives me a timetable. It doesn't work very well for that!
Angel-of-Deadlifts
2025-05-10 09:46:05 +0000 UTC
