Tag: Understanding Media (1964)

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Doug Smith
Date
February 9, 2025

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

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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
January 26, 2025

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

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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 ›