AI Is Going To Make the Future Full of Fools

But even worse, fools with little to noone to correct them.

A fool. It’s defined as someone who lacks clear judgement or prudence or a person lacking in common powers of understanding or reasoning. With the coming of technology, we’ve transitioned from a society that would read books starving for information to a a horde of of angry virtue signalers, only glancing at words when we need to one-up a rando on the internet or feeding trolls on Twitter. We have increaseingly become a society who no longer starving for education with long-read books, and are not just waiting for the next short blurb in a meme to wrap tightly with a pretty bow, and share it will all our friends. We want things quick and easy now like a whore in a titty bar.

And as if it were perfect timing, now here comes artifiial intelligence, dubbed AI. Which really isn’t any kind of intelligence at all, but just scrapes the foam that bubbles to the top like on Reddit or some obscure forum that ‘sounds” smart. We are no lolnger looking information, we are looking quickformation and AI has not been forced out to us whether we like it or not on our phones. On our compturs. In our cars. And soon in our healthcare, real estate and even government. It’s a worm, writhing through our society forced upon us by tech bros, shadow government? Who knows.

But from my experience from using it too far, it just seems like a machine for disinformation to be spread evenly across everything, bending realityh, the future, and the past as we know it. I’ve had accss to Perplexity AI free for one year that came with my personal AI handheld assistant, an Rabbit r1. And when I first started using it, it seemed amazing, catching things, providing information, seemingly fast and thoroughly. But then I noticed something over time. I asked it things that I knew were true, but it would return alternative information which are called “hallucinations”. In human terms, it was gaslighting me. And that got me to thinking, what about people who don’t know to do this and take everything that AI says as truth? This flawed technology is being installed on our phones and everything that we do everyday. AI doesn’t have the capacity to reason. It doesn’t know what’s a bias and what isn’t, so it can give you information based on bigotry wrapped in an innocent box. It doesn’t know how to decipher things like sarcasm and doesn’t know how to determine something that’s colloquial from fact. This kind of information being disseminated around the globe with no oversight will bring confusion, “educated ignorance” and chaos. And perhaps, that’s its purpose.

Generally when people think of chaos, they think of burnt out cars and dilapidated buildings but it’s going to be nothing like that. AI is already being launched around the world to everyday people irresponsibly and igniting little fires everywhere. “AI wars” based off misinformation from social media, are already happening and tech bros aren’t taking any responsibility for it, but make no mistake, it can and will eventually reach to the levels of government.

Unfortunately Americans are so arrogant and think they’re better than everyone else, and are assuming they’re immune from it, but just look at Pizzagate when a armed man stormed into a pizzeria looking for a child sex ring because “he read about it on the internet” or we can even go back to the 2016 election how people put their whole vote on the election of Donald Trump because of misinformation of Hilary Clinton. In recent years, India has witnessed a troubling surge in riots and violent incidents fueled by the rapid spread of disinformation, particularly through social media platforms. These events highlight the dangerous intersection of online misinformation and real-world consequences, demonstrating the power of false narratives to incite unrest and violence in the world’s largest democracy. The ethnic clashes in Manipur between the Meitei and Kuki communities serve as a stark example of how disinformation can escalate tensions and lead to violence. Despite an internet shutdown in the state, misinformation continued to spread through various channels, including social media and even local newspapers.

One of the most shocking incidents occurred on May 4, 2024, when two women were paraded naked and assaulted in Kangpokpi district. This horrific act was triggered by the circulation of a fake picture claiming a tribal murder in Churachandpur. The image, which actually originated from Uttar Pradesh and was unrelated to Manipur, falsely alleged that a Meitei woman had been sexually assaulted and murdered by members of the Kuki tribe.

The Southport riots in the UK demonstrate how quickly disinformation can lead to chaos. On July 29, 2024, a 17-year-old teen attacked a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport, murdering three girls and injuring ten more children and parents. Within hours, false information about the attacker’s identity spread rapidly online, with unsubstantiated claims that the perpetrator was an asylum seeker or Muslim immigrant. The next day, hundreds of protesters attacked a local mosque, throwing bricks, bottles, and rocks.

The riots quickly spread beyond Southport, leading to violent clashes with police, property damage, and over 1,000 arrests across the United Kingdom. The government activated Operation Early Dawn, an emergency measure to ease prison overcrowding due to the large-scale prosecutions. By August 19, 2024, 470 rioters had been charged with offenses, many facing years in prison.

The spread of misinformation was amplified by various actors, including Russian state TV, controversial influencer Andrew Tate, and far-right movements. Reform leader Nigel Farage contributed to the spread of false information by suggesting the attacker might be known to UK authorities, a claim later proven untrue. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of X (formerly Twitter), further stoked tensions by posting that he believed “civil war is inevitable” and blaming violence and protests on “mass migration and open borders.”

These events highlight the dangerous power of online disinformation to incite real-world violence and underscore the need for swift, accurate information dissemination by authorities to counter false narratives.