Author: Doug Smith

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Doug Smith
Date
June 6, 2025

Categorized
Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Aza Raskin, Hallucination in Large Language Models (LLMs), Jeremy Utley, McLuhanian transformation, Tristan Harris}

Big Tech’s Recent Big Admission: Chatbots Are Not Very Reliable

_{Here in Part 2, I discuss Stanford prof Jeremy Utley’s hype video in the context of that and other sobering facts} _{Doug Smith
June 6, 2025

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Large Language Models (LLMs)}

When using chatbots and other GenAI, keep the long-term goals of the developers in mind. Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
June 5, 2025

Categorized
Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships

Tagged
Esther Meek, GenAI as non-neutral tool, Jeremy Utley}

Should We Use Generative AI Chatbots to Spark Our Creativity?

_{What if we become so disconnected from human ways of knowing that real life relationships, desires, and reality itself begins to shrivel away?} _{Doug Smith
June 5, 2025

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Creativity, Large Language Models (LLMs), Relationships}

Jeremy Utley uses unmistakably spiritual, almost salvation-like language: epiphanies, transformation. GenAI is a savior, and Utley is a prophet… Read More ›

ai generative ,Artificial Intelligence technology big data.globalization and analytics management

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Doug Smith
Date
February 9, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Cannon Hackett, GenAI as non-neutral tool, GenAI as scheming, In The Beginning Was the Word (2009), Jay Owen, Jonathan Haidt, Russ White, Slave girl story (New Testament), Understanding Media (1964), Vern Poythress}

Gen AI: A Neutral Tool? Let’s Look More Closely

_{All technologies change us. Some technologies change us in ways where the harms far outweigh any benefits.} _{Doug Smith
February 9, 2025

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Ethics, Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

GenAI is not neutral. It rides on our God-given gift of language, builds trust that leaves us open to deception, and changes us in ways we don’t notice. Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
February 2, 2025

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion

Tagged
Artificial intelligence and the occult, Artificial intelligence in ministry, Chatbots in ministry, Church of Eleven22, Craig Mundie, Eric Schmidt, FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), Gary Smith on AI, Henry Kissinger, Ilya Sutskever, Jay Owen, Median humans (Sam Altman), Rod Dreher}

Why We Must Not Use AI In Ministry: Response to Jay Owen

_{An open letter to Jay Owen, a popular proponent of AI in ministry} _{Doug Smith
February 2, 2025

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Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs), Religion}

Smith: “It’s really hard, but I hope you’ll consider what I have to share and stop telling people they should use AI in ministry.” Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
January 26, 2025

Categorized
Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)

Tagged
Amusing Ourselves to Death, Bootup script, BS as philosophical concept, ChatGPT, Fear of missing out (FOMO), FOMO, Hallucinations, Humans as bootloaders, Large Language Models (creativity issue), Neil Postman, Non-Computable You (Discovery Institute Press 2022), Sam Altman on the merge, Tool trope, Understanding Media (1964)}

AI and the Destructive Lies of the Tool Trope

_{You've heard this, right? “Technology isn’t good or bad; it’s a tool, it’s just how you use it that matters.” False.} _{Doug Smith
January 26, 2025

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Addiction, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models (LLMs)}

Because LLM AIs never understand a single word, image, video, or line of code, they can’t know whether anything they say is right, true, or good. Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
June 20, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Media

Tagged
Unintentional (book)}

Apple Vision Pro, Part 2: When Other People Are Not Fully There

_{The immersive nature of Vision Pro seems formative in a different way than computers or phones} _{Doug Smith
June 20, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Media}

The false sense of vision, connection, control, and spirituality remain, and are even more evident as people are starting to use and study the device’s impact. Read More ›

The young man stands on the crowdy street

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Doug Smith
Date
June 19, 2024

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Media, Relationships

Tagged
Adam Rogers, apple vision pro, Featured, Jacques Ellul, loneliness, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman}

How My World Looked Inside Apple Vision Pro

_{I felt everything the script intended for me to feel. But I left with a lot of questions} _{Doug Smith
June 19, 2024

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Artificial Intelligence, Media, Relationships}

What happens when people perceive reality differently? Will our painfully divided culture will be even more fractured? Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
October 1, 2023

Tagged
apple, Big Tech, Doug Smith, Virtual Reality}

See Through the False Promises of Apple Vision Pro

_{The illusion of connection so shapes our desires that we may lose our taste for the real thing} _{Doug Smith
October 1, 2023

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Vision Pro isolates us by the mere fact of its presence since everything we see has this device in the middle. Read More ›

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Doug Smith
Date
February 26, 2019

Categorized
Social Factors, Technocracy

Tagged
[Un]Intentional (book), addiction, Cal Newport, Featured, free will}

Will we surrender our free will to screens?

_{We may be surrendering while we aren’t paying attention} _{Doug Smith
February 26, 2019

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Social Factors, Technocracy}

If “the machines” ever do take over, it will be because we have stopped thinking, not because they have started to.