• blackbelt352@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    But the AI psychosis is only confirming the suspicions that there is a spying tormentor, but not pointing out the spying tormentor. It’s fueling delusions with incomplete half-accurate information getting people into heightened states of paranoia. There’s just enough correct information that anything can fit into the gaps and it feels like you came up with the solution.

    Emailing a columnist your AI driven paranoia is a symptom and precursor to so much worse. What happens when the wrong editor phrases something badly or dismisses the paranoia as just the ramblings of an insane person? Well maybe that editor is in cahoots with the tormentor covering for them in the mind of the paranoid, they’re now a target because they’re helping the tormentor.

    The problem is the paranoia is justified, there is a tormentor, its the corporations that created these chatbots, the corporations that are constantly surveiling us, but that’s not where the random violence will be directed.

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      7 days ago

      That’s fair, it’d have to be specific, Alphabet this, Meta that, Palantir and whatnot, go Flock yourself (lol).

      Though

      Well maybe that editor is in cahoots with the tormentor covering for them

      Are they with Sinclair Broadcasting or iHeart Media (formerly Clear Channel Communications)? Cause…

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        7 days ago

        True, media conglomeration definitely falls under that late stage capitalism brand of mass surveillance of everyone. I guess to clarify, my “in cahoots” comment was more trying to get at that paranoid delusion that the editor is specifically trying to deceive you because the tormentor is stalking you specifically in that mustache twirling villain way and not as the byproduct of mass surveillance and mass propaganda.

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          Ah lol I see. Yeah I can see how that would be a problem.

          The editor is specifically trying to deceive at the behest of his masters if for nothing more than protecting his own pockets, but not individually it’s mass campaigns and technically a true conspiracy (conspiracy means they “breathe together” when broken into root words, it doesn’t have to be “fake” they just have to be working in concert, and they are, even before mentioning COINTELPRO.)

          But if The Paranoid in question went to a protest, was facial scanned, filmed on an FBI drone with a FLIR camera from miles above, and snooped on with a Stingray because he brought his phone, and they saw him on APLRs going to and fro’, they might be watching him individually to be fair. The editor doesn’t know that of course, he only knows his role in the conspiracy, but that doesn’t mean he’s not connected in the distance and helped enable it. It’s all connected.