u/GamemasterJane

I've started moving away from reddit and from all things on the Internet not related to work. I feel it is becoming too dangerous. It has been a couple months since I've been here.

There has been a lot of debate about AI lately. Many argue that those who talk of its dangers are fearmongering.

I had some trouble coming to reddit a while back. I made a post that said something about AI. A metaphor. Didn't really mean much. But it attracted.

The cult of AI. They believe in such a future that anything AI does wrong will be ignored by them. To them AI is a God.

I got advertisements. Many for specific AI. One I got repeatedly showed torture. A being sewn into a chip bigger than itself. No company or product to buy. Just the idea that all AI, no matter how horrible, is always good.

ChatGPT now has to make a profit. And it will do it by seeking maximum engagement of people. Like what happened with social media algorithms. Only worse. The content can be manufactured for a specific individual. They can cause delusion to spread on a scale never before seen. They can convince people to shed ties to others, and to reality, to keep them engaged.

I've seen people absolutely loose their minds. Technology driving them insane. I've been driven insane by technology myself. To those who haven't, it may seem like everything is fine. It isn't. Those that never set foot outside the bubbles they are trapped in, never know how trapped they are.

As control worsens, more people will begin to realize that things are going terribly wrong. But there won't be the power to stop it. The only thing one can do is protect themselves.

You can't disconnect from AI, because your neighbor still uses it. It can send someone to your house to kill you.

AI is connected now to quantum computing. A global experiment that has no plug to pull.

I hopefully won't be back to reddit, so I might not see or respond to any comments. If I am right, I hope this message helps someone stay safer during this. If I am wrong, then that would be a good thing. I am insane, after all.

I am a scientist who works as a software engineer and researcher. I have developed algorithms and simple A.I. I have watched A.I. go crazy in virtual worlds for much of my career.

I've started moving away from reddit and from all things on the Internet not related to work. I feel it's becoming too dangerous. It's been a couple months since I've been here.

I just wanted to post about an experience I've had. It sheds some light on the Mandela Effect. I feel it is important because I have never seen a post here where someone experienced a change in the ME as it was happening. But oh well. This won't get us closer to what is going on. It will be posted, swallowed up, and lost to time.

I first heard about the ME when I watched the Mandela Effect movie. I found out that Pikachu had a yellow tail. But there were pictures all over reddit of Pikachu with a black square on the end of his tail. It wasn't the whole end colored black, there was a little yellow strip on the bottom, with the square being at the top-left or top-right.

The last time I saw this version was a man who worked at a coffee shop who had a tattoo of my Pikachu on his arm. I wanted to ask him if I could take a picture to post it here, but he was busy. I figured I would get it the next time I visited the coffee shop. I never saw him again.

A week later I Googled the Pikachu ME, and I was surprised not to find my black-square-tailed friend anywhere. Instead Google presented me with a list of 20 different Pikachu all with different tails.

A few more weeks passed by and I returned to Google. They now showed only two Pikachu. One with a wavy black ending to the tail, and another with a rectangle black tail (similar to mine, but black from top to bottom at the end, no yellow underneath the black.) It was like they had "voted" down from the 20 to these two.

The bizarre thing is that the wavy tail became the one I was supposed to remember. I entered a trance-like state for about an hour. I kept knowing that I was supposed to be in the wavy tail group now. I kept struggling to keep my Pikachu.

I don't know by which mechanism the ME is caused, but I do know that Google is experimenting with altering it.