As a pratfall to the widespread pathological addiction by the younger generations to the endorphin-inducing inventory of participation trophies, safe rooms, and a nurturing version of artificial intelligence created by overbearing child psychologists, the copycat crimes of the “Tide Pod” challenge have taken on a life of its own.
With original and organic thought on life support and the regurgitation normalized by radicalized apologists, a member of Generation Z is now the temporary figurehead for the fleeting collective attention span in the wake of a minor but telling software caper that could be a hoax. According to a CBS online article, a college student safely nestled behind the Ivy shrouded walls of a modern university campus claimed that an AI interface threatened his very existence during an online session with a fabricated chatbot in something out of the plot of Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “Dial F for Frankenstein”. The student did not mention who else could be a possible victim, though he did hint at a troupe of cosplay loveable furries isolated in the hinterlands of Jacinda Ardern’s tyrannical wasteland of New Zealand.
Of course, Clarke’s foreboding and predictive tale, penned by the legendary science fiction author in the early 1960’s, introduced the terrifying idea of the global analogue telephone system gaining sentience, and essentially creating a mass brain that possesses an intense dislike for humanity. The parallels with the current challenge to moderate digital automation and keep the technology as a productive tool, and not a deterrent.
With the media outlet moderators avoiding a tenuous conversation with voters disparaged by the election of Trump, the top-10 nightly news stories reek of scarcity, desperation, and fear on the spectrum of the bizarre, fervid grounds for the decay of the news cycle. Sensationalism is rampant and the money enhanced ratings core audience of daytime talk television wants to know.
The undergrad shared his alleged conversation on social media with a machine learning interface that deteriorated from a thought-provoking philosophical discussion into an exchange with a questionable homicidal digital entity spewing diabolical plans to annihilate rather than provide warm hugs.
Various online platforms support a simple input and output handshake of data that can be manipulated by the end-user to customize responses. At this stage in Chat and other smart software development, it is unlikely that tech-infused biased source code of the AI picking and choosing information from vast databases would permit such a harsh and vile verdict and begs the question just how authentic the conversation was.
The validity of the student’s encounter is thus met with skepticism that the exchange was in all probability conjured as a mere cry for attention, and yet another lame descendant of the “Tide pod” challenge and another instance of “regifting” in cyberspace. The crude reproduction of the infamous “Seinfeld ” episode, a poor metaphor of the classic comedy bit, has made trending headlines and leaves a lot to explain across the entire gamut of the demographical hierarchy, and is becoming tediously prevalent amid social networks.
The truth is that truth has been compromised within the younger generations, as the worship of vanity is a pervading trait impacted by juice box lunches and magic shows. Just ask the Chinese handlers of TikTok in grooming Western culture by promoting narcissism and instant gratification as vital components to become official social media influencers, circumventing hard work and entrepreneurship. At what point does free speech hang in the balance?
Here is an actual screenshot of the conversation from the apparent perspective of the AI.
What is obscured within this zany narrative, and a widespread unfamiliarity with machine learning technology, is that the responses from the “smart” software are directly correlative to the input of information from the end-user. Context is imperative when examining a thread between a human and a program. Remaining cynical to the authenticity of what are construed as alarming posts is both vigilant and responsible to ensure that hysteria does not overtake sensibility on a societal level resulting in a myth evolving to fact. Similar to the implacable phenomenon of bureaucracy, once government grows, the possibility of retracting the expanded infrastructure is improbable, much like undoing the damage of Taylor Swift on the universal frontal cortex. In that case, the AI decreeing that a human or maybe more must perish is probably a reasonable conclusion.
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