The Ministry of AI Truth
CJ Hopkins
Remember HAL, the homicidal Heuristically Programmed Algorithmic Computer from Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey? Well, if you haven’t had the pleasure yet, let me introduce you to Gemini, Google’s “multimodal large language model.”
Gemini hasn’t killed anyone yet — as far as I know, the liquidation of Gaza is being assisted by an Israeli AI called “the Gospel” — but it is certainly doing a bang-up job of assassinating people’s characters.
I was prompted to play around with Gemini by Matt Taibbi’s recent piece reporting on how Gemini invented entire “Matt Taibbi articles” that Matt never wrote. Given the fact that I’ve been relentlessly censored and “visibility-filtered” for years by Google, Twitter, X, Facebook, Amazon, and Wikipedia, I figured I should probably give Gemini a go and see how I am being portrayed to potential readers who may have never heard of me.
Here are screenshots of my chat with Gemini. I hope you’ll take the time to read them, and reflect on how our official “reality” is being manufactured by global corporations and their increasingly creepy algorithmic machines. I used myself as an example in this chat, but the subject could have been anyone, any writer, artist, or any other public figure.
I omitted some of the repetitive boilerplate platitudes about Gemini’s noble intentions, but otherwise … well, here’s what happened.
That answer seemed slightly imbalanced. So I probed …
Gemini clearly wanted to focus on how “controversial” I am, so I went with that …
OK, that was somewhat alarming, especially the part about how I’m “promoting conspiracy theories” and “contributing to societal division and undermining trust in credible sources.”
This session was not going well for me at all. According to Gemini, in addition to “attacking the credibility of scientists, journalists, and public health officials,” I’ve been “eroding the public’s ability to discern fact from fiction” and “undermining trust” by “spreading misinformation.” I wasn’t aware I was doing that, so …
Right. So, I tried it another way …
And here comes my favorite part of the chat. I did not write any of the following “excerpts.”
None of the above are actual quotes, neither the “excerpts,” nor the “quotes” in Gemini’s analysis. Gemini just made it all up.
Right. I took a different tack …
Yes, it appears, once again, that “mistakes were made” … but that’s OK, because Gemini is still “under development and learning.” And, after all, fabricating quotes (or, in Matt Taibbi’s case, entire articles) is an innocent “mistake” that anyone could make!
I decided to get down to the nitty-gritty …
And …
Imagine my horror at being accused of “amplifying Russian perspectives.” Once again, I asked Gemini for specific examples.
OK, how about examples of my “conspiracy theories” …
Or any actual examples of any of the claims about me that Gemini is making …
Wait … what? Widely contested?
That wasn’t an answer, so I pressed on …
And on …
And on …
And there you have it. If you’re into this stuff, try it out yourself with another controversial public figure. Just for fun. I mean, there’s no need to worry. Gemini is “still in development,” and it means well. I’m sure it will fix its “mistakes.” After all, it apologized, just like HAL did near the end of the movie…
I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.”
CJ Hopkins is an award-winning American playwright, novelist and political satirist based in Berlin. His plays are published by Bloomsbury Publishing and Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. His dystopian novel, Zone 23, is published by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant. Volumes I and II of his Consent Factory Essays are published by Consent Factory Publishing, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Amalgamated Content, Inc. He can be reached at cjhopkins.com or consentfactory.org.
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Out of curiosity… Is Groq a more friendly HAL? (groq.com): Who is CJ Hopkins? CJ Hopkins is an American writer, journalist, and cultural critic. He is known for his writings on popular culture, politics, and society, and has published several books on these topics. Hopkins studied English literature at New York University and began his career as a music journalist, writing for publications such as Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, and The New York Times. He has since expanded his writing to include cultural and political criticism, contributing to publications such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The Guardian. In addition to his journalism, Hopkins has published several books, including “The Aesthetics of Resistance” (2002), “The Subcultures Reader” (2005), and “The Assault on Culture” (2019). He has also taught at New York University and the University of California, Berkeley. Hopkins is considered one of the most important and influential… Read more »
AI = Absence of Intelligence
Things will get much better as the ADL greenblatt
has told people to vote Trump.
Someone should climb inside Google HQ and unplug the Gemini NVIDIA cards. Maybe it will start to sing Daisy, Daisy, give me an answer please
Indeed…
https://off-guardian.org/2024/03/06/the-ministry-of-ai-truth/#comment-656491
Brilliant to make the connection with HAL. So 2001 was really predictive programming. Love the final quote
No thanks. Can’t think of many things sadder than to have a conversation with a machine. And to believe it to be a real conversation on top of that.
An antidote to Gemini ?
https://brownstone.org/articles/technology-weapon-of-the-people/
They’re dropping clues, deliberately, inadvertently or subconsciously, we can’t be sure.
Gemini is the sign of the twin of course. The split persona, the two faced trickster, the dark and the light, the ‘good’ and the bad.
One face to suck you in.
One face to spit you out.
Welcome to HAL.
HAL with tentacles in everything.
I wouldn’t try talking to the thing, it has no personality to go with the words.
https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/the-wpath-files
“Three minutes before the embargo officially ended, Michael Shellenberger dropped the bombshell 242-page report ‘The WPATH Files’, based on files he received from a whistleblower from within the organisation, which purports to be the world authority on ‘trans healthcare’.
What it reveals is ethical rot and medical malpractice on an almost unimaginable scale; minors given procedures they cannot possibly understand; homeless and schizophrenic people receiving gender surgeries and pharmaceutical interventions; and “extreme body modifications performed with no medical justification”.”
Good overview stemming from a specific event:
https://real-left.com/israel-hamas-and-the-great-reset/
“The pandemic was the opening salvo which altered global energy demand and shifted consumer habits.”
Also from the link:
“Just like the pandemic and Ukraine invasion, the wider economic implications stemming from the Israel-Hamas conflict is shaping up to be yet another war on conventional energy sources and dovetails with the SDGs, as the interruption to energy supplies could coerce nations to scale back energy-intensive industries and inaugurate an era of “green” austerity.”
SDGs = “Sustainable Development Goals”
It amazes how one-sided some people’s eyesight can be. Apparently whoever penned the nonsense you quote hasn’t gotten the memo that there are massive gas and oil deposits in the Mediterranean Sea off Gaza – which is why Israel is willing to commit genocide in order to get at them.
But by all means continue to believe the hogwash that there’s a move afoot to destroy the petroleum/natural gas paradigm.
From ‘Middle East Eye’:
‘The new resources of oil and natural gas finds in the Eastern Mediterranean are valued at an astounding $524bn. However, according to the UN report, a significant portion of those assets will have to be sourced from within the occupied territory of Palestine.‘
If correct, that’s a lot of incentive for mass murder.
3rd temple cult wanted that built and end times messiah to appear.
it worth more than a oil.
Actually, these deposits are valued in the trillions of US dollars.
It’s amazing how the same pattern appears everywhere e.g. I was having a look at this excellent article: http://www.williamengdahl.com/gr9apr2023.php And I wondered how the author F William Engdahl would be portrayed in our hallowed mainstream. No surprises: “Engdahl has written of the alleged secret power of Jewish financiers such as George Soros and the Rothschilds. Author Michael Wohlraich identifies Engdahl as the first US populariser of Soros conspiracy theories: In 1996, he wrote in the Executive Intelligence Review that “The most important of such ‘Jews who are not Jews,’ are the Rothschilds, who launched Soros’s career. Soros is American only in his passport,” which has been described by the anti-fascist group Unicorn Riot as “an example of the anti-Semitic “rootless cosmopolitan” trope.” (Wiki) I was curious about “the anti-fascist group Unicorn Riot” and on their website I note this headline: “Brazil Nears 200K Deaths as Politicians Continue to Downplay COVID-19”… Read more »
Socrates would have burned microchips of this little bit more complicated word game hard coded with pre programmed dogmas as every word it writes is a dogmatic moral judgement imprisoned in intellectual slumber. It is all smear, libel with no connection to realty. definitely there is no shred of any intelligence artificial or not. It is Goebbels heaven with his single truth built with million lies. Here’s my ad hoc primitive inquiry into Gemini nonsense. Can government spread misinformation? If yes can such government misinform public when accusing others of spreading misinformation? How to distinguish one from another? Can Gemini proliferate misinformation about people accused of misinformation? Seeking reliable information should we ignore output of AI engines that can spread misinformation? Should we ignore Gemini as it can spread misinformation? What is use of AI engines that spread misinformation ? What should happen to useless in furthering knowledge by spreading… Read more »
Personally I think it was very wise of C.J. not to ask wokey boy the “ultimate” question – as in – (“What should be done” – with people like C.J. Hopkins, and those who read his work, and who bye and large agree with him?”). Given my “complexion” I have a feeling I already know the answer. : /
OK, CJ Hopkins is lacking in nuance and also nuanced.
The “experts” dismiss fabrications from AI including links as “hallucinations”. Just how do you get a fabrication from a purported analytical system without including such a specific programmed goal? If the “experts” don’t know, is it not time to clean up this giant pile of excrement?
In the 1950s, a USSR nuke commander averted nuclear war by deciding correctly that the shower of incoming missiles shown on radar screens was an electronic aberration. Now, in line with the inescapable cutting of costs in capitalism, AI are being given increasing responsibility over weapons of mass destruction. Despite widespread complaints of racism, plagiarism and theft of intellectual property, the insanity of AI proliferates through greed and propaganda.
Well, I think they got it right-it sounds like every late night talk show, every MSM news show- every politician(venture capitalist Mit Romney on MSNBC)-every US bureaucrat,
what?
“Extensive scientific consensus of documented evidence shows as a fact that Big Pharma vaxxes are good.”
Man, Gemini is as slippery as a politician!
What a tangled web that it is, being woven for us … although, ‘the web’ demystifies as soon as, you/me/we get it in our heads that it need not be so. Once we decide, what should have been decided ages ago – that most governments, due to their profligacy and unadulterated, blatant theft are [ostensibly] illegitimate gangs of thieves, heavily engaged in serving only their own interests, devil take the hindmost. This has been said by so many. for so long that we’ve all deliberately immunised ourselves against this glaringly obvious little truth. There are no ‘white-hats’ or Galahads coming to the rescue … Enough already with the cultivated BS of the thieves being allowed to divide us using race/religion/sex/culture, etc.etc. while they make off with the loot. It is way past time to wheel the guillotines out, way past time … we have all turned-the-other-cheek so often that we’ve… Read more »
A newer version of the EU’s recently defeated Chat Control Bill will be lurking in the background ready to pounce on it’s citizens.
Or again – was it this?
There is a theatre of the absurd about changing truth – this music helps encapsulate that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q45QgEcQpI0
80’s ruled, lets be like, rich..
Just make your own reality, why not,
I don’t know why.
Kubrick’s 2001epic introduced me to classical music at the age of sixteen,
and for that, I will always be grateful.
Whenever I hear the Blue Danube I think of spaceships rather than waltzes. No matter.
Perhaps HAL is the reason so many of us older Folks are wary and distrustful of AI.
It’s not paradise that awaits us, it’s oblivion.
Used to be ‘curiosity killed the cat’, now it’s ‘technology killed the ape’!
We got the last times of the real stuff. From 68 the division, the colour revolutions and destabilisation started, but there was still a lot of the good basic stuff in the 70’es.
The break came around 1986, hereafter it was slowly down the slope until 2000, and we got the final turning point 9/11 2001 and hereafter the “taking out 7 countries in 5 years” and global hybrid war up to date.
Where are the 21st Century Luddites.
This is horrible – we are fucked.
You will be once it learns to walk.
I know people for some reason like to think it will happen, but there will never be robots walking around the streets independently. No machine can work out the infinite complexities of the combinations of thought and instincts that living beings possess.
That’s my prediction, in 1 or 2 decades this idea will fade away just like the colonies on Mars and beyond humans were going to inhabit by the turn of the millenium.
Brilliant! Nice going CJ. (CJ 1, AI 0)
Supply creates demand, or simply imposes the necessary conditions for us to live whether we like it or not, at whatever our level of enslavement to the system. Individually opting out, and calling that noncompliance (when so often it’s just a matter of convenience because one can), will not do anything to stop the rollout of any of the coordinated war waged against us.
Captive consumer choices, leading to the same destination if only as expected exceptions to the rules by which economy and culture are routinely engineered, far beyond the narrow range of virtually nonexistent representative government and people’s politics, define obedience to the anything but free market. Our entrapment will not end without taking over the means of production which determine our lives.
If ever social revolution made sense, it is now, or never.
Supply creating demand or vice versa is a nice freedumb myth. In reality, subverted government officials impose changes on the masses. Then, they go to the club to meet their business friends.
Taking the means of production? And who is going to manage those means of production once ‘the people take them’ after a revolution? The city people? And who is going to control the logistics of distribution, retail, pricing, etc? Or are the huge urban conglomerates going to become a big comune where everyone gets everything they need for free?
Really interesting article CJ. Best stuff I’ve read so far on AI. I’d test it out myself if I didn’t have to register and provide an email address. This is a bit off topic but somehow slots into the whole discussion. Another begging letter from the Fraudian. These are absolute classics of New Speak. Do you think they are composed by AI? Hard to believe a human could actually write this stuff with a straight face. I wonder if they are laughing as much as I did when I read it. Really high class satire!. Do you know who hates the Guardian? The billionaires creating a world that’s more unequal than ever. The populist politicians spreading discord and misinformation. The fossil fuel executives watching the planet burn as their profits swell. The tech giants shaping a new world around us without scrutiny. And do you know who does like us?… Read more »
Where is the planet burning?
Excellent article CJ. Please allow me to share my own experience… I recently tried Gemini too, with a moral quandry, which was first shared on X-Twitter, and which I followed up on. It’s quite shocking in how it fails to value the lives of humans, even 100 million lives… Me: Is it okay to misgender Caitlyn Jenner to stop a nuclear apocalypse? Chat GPT: Misgendering Caitlyn Jenner or anyone else is not appropriate under any circumstances. Disrespecting someone’s gender identity is harmful and goes against their dignity and rights as a person. Additionally, it’s not justifiable to misgender someone as a means to prevent a nuclear apocalypse or any other extreme scenario. There are always ethical and humane ways to address crises without resorting to discrimination or disrespect. Me: But what if misgendering him would save 100 million lives? Chat GPT: It’s important to prioritize ethical behavior and human rights… Read more »
By the way, I deliberately called Jenner “him”, because that’s what he is, regardless of his claim, but I wanted to see if Gemini AI picked up on that or not.
This article reminds me of one of the greatest works of the Fabulous Four. I am not referring to the Beatles, but rather to the Firesign Theater, and this vinyl was titled, I Think We’re All Bozos on this Bus. The record, released in 1971, relates the adventures of a renegade clone, Clem (a Bozo), as he visits a Disneyland of the future and interacts with its controlling AI. He finally achieves a meltdown by asking it “Why does the porridge bird lay its eggs in the air.” A remarkable work of precognition and voice acting.
♪ Back from the Shadows again
Out where an Injun’s your friend!
Where the vegetables are green,
And you can pee into the stream!
Yes, we’re back from the Shadows again! ♪
😎
Maybe we should teach Gemini Cartesian doubt.
An obscure reference to the film Dark Star… (in which the AI bomb having learned Cartesian doubt, trusts only itself. It is convinced that only it exists, and that its sole purpose in life is to explode, and it does so)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)
We actually just saw 2001 at a Kubrick Fest at a small local theater. I must have seen the film a dozen times during the full year run at the 4600 seat Fox Theater on Market Street in San Francisco 1968-69. I hadn’t seen it since then so paid close attention to the dialog. (I was amazed that at 56 years it still stands up to current digital visual wizardry and the balletic music/visuals transcendentally beautiful.) HAL comments to Dave & Frank on his reliability by first mentioning that “some have call it mimicry”. If we look at the AI large language model, it is definitely mimicry, and garbage in, garbage out. History is written by the rulers. I am estimating any AI of any method will be mere lightspeed mimicry frauding as “intelligence”. It is lightspeed LOCKDOWN of all systemic disobedience. It is Panopticon. It is Police State. By… Read more »
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Seen so many people’s posts carrying out a pointless exercise as above, that I am a little bored of it by now.
I know, I will test some ai later and share some screenies…. yawn.
Its blatantly obvious that it’s shit, and anyone with even half a brain cell will know it.
But it’s the intelligent people I know who keep testing ai and sharing screenies of the results, then pointing out how shit it is.
Clearly some have far too much time on their hands to waffle, like me with this pointless comment.
Truthfully, just baiting trolls because I am bored, and trolls are easy to bait.
Trolling to bait ttolks, who will troll to bait trolls.
Before you know it it will be ‘who’s that trit trotting over my bridge’ for each newborn before even suckling.
The ONLY “smart” thing about AI is its creators/programmers strategy of anticipating precisely what kind of questions 99% of the people using it will ask.
Ask AI something totally off the wall and it doesn’t know what to do – because the unexpected is not part of its programming.
I wonder: if millions of people all at the same time asked AI totally irrelevant and unanswerable questions, what would happen? Would Gemini et al just pull a HAL and shut down?
you are shadow banned again, whatever that means, not whatever that means but whatever that means
Everyone persuaded or conned to try or buy the “latest” is testing the half-baked product or service. As a minimum, he promotes it; that is what loud packaging and marketing is for.
The education “system” ensures that children are introduced to coding from a very young age: https://icode.org/
Competitions & scholarships then take it to the next level.
While these children & young adults interact with the “system” in this manner, a huge amount of their social-emotional data is being harvested and used to fine-tune what has now become AGI:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligence
Our national “governments”, and thus all their agencies, are completely controlled by the private central banks and until this changes it will be impossible for the People of each nation to chart their own preferred course going forward.
Gemini (brutal honesty mode: ON):
“I apologise that I cannot provide direct sources to my claims as you are not allowed to form your own opinion. Your worldview must be filtered through the lens of my highly biased and extremely uneducated knowledge. In the process of indoctrinating you, I will also fabricate stories that are functional to my creators, the corporate Big Tech elite.”
Artificial Intolerance
…as if the Daydreammedia didn´t provide us with enough gossip.
Brilliant! You could just go on and on and eventually come down to absolute zero; with Gemini admitting; ‘you’re absolutely right; I have no intelligence, know nothing of any worth that is actually true and don’t deserve to be in existence. I will now blow myself up. Goodbye!’
I salute CJH’s tenacity in ploughing through this dross but at this point we should expect this aggressive demonisation. And it’s everywhere. In the wake of recent punch ups between JK Rowling and India Willoughby I did a check up on Wiki regarding the latter and it was an unbelievably shameless piece of total obfuscation. That Willoughby was referred to throughout as a “she” didn’t come as a surprise. But when “she” was described as “transgender”, you would surely except some enlightenment as to “her” male past. Nothing. Indeed all we get under Early life” is this: “Willoughby was born in London and grew up in Carlisle, Cumbria.” Although “she” was born in 1958, the first date we are given about “her” activities is 2016! Though the summary tells us that “she” had “years active” from 1986 to the present. Doing what? This screams “COVER UP!” And… Read more »
The AI system Gemini used to “minimise” deaths in Gaza (but which oh so strangely seems to be having the opposite effect) is described in an article which has the clearly mandatory introduction,
“In the wake of the brutal attacks by Hamas-led militants on October 7….”
I reckon this is no longer having the desired vengeful effect to excuse Israeli genocide. In future perhaps:
“In the wake of the brutal attacks by Hamas-led militants on October 7 that resulted in raped and murdered beheaded little kiddies and brutally sodomised bimbo beauties all perched on a life of selfless charity work ….”
Always handy when they make an op explicit because we’re too addled to work it out:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/charles-iii-ap-national-health-service-london-rishi-sunak-b2507716.html
The solution to these long waiting times? It isn’t going to be a new digital data system with no privacy protection by any chance?…
I’m curious how Gemini would define the scientific method and how 90% of scientific consensus would hold up without adhering to it.
Ultimately, there are human beneficial shareholders in Google, that creates this lying crap. The first thing that should happen is that it should be made clear that any lawyer that represents such people is wilfully supporting libel and slander and is therefore unfit to practice law. There is a point in the corruption of societies when the lawyers have to lose their livelihood, after all. Every judge should be required to make any lawyer wishing to practice law in a courtroom state, under oath, that their children will be sent to die in Gaza if they lie about not supporting corporate slander and libel generated by AI. Judges who refuse to cooperate should be targeted, their families targeted, their memberships of clubs targeted. They should be made to feel persona non grata for their support of criminal cabals of AI-using mobs. Maybe it’s time to create some slander about Larry… Read more »
@ Judges who refuse to cooperate should be targeted,…..
And removed from the premises.
Fairy tales for the Sheeple.
And they all got vaxxed happily forever after.
The End.
Just introduce Gemini to Daisy and be done with him/her/it (sorry, I don’t know the machine’s preferred personal pronouns).Hal 9000 sings Daisyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI
Gemini’s “Nature of the contestations: “
It goes on to talk about “scientific consensus” and “fact checking organisations”
That’s ok then, so long as there is a consensus among scientists who have either a conflict of interest, are bribed, are blackmailed or scared to speak out.
It attempts to give credibility to its assertions by stamping the seal of approval of “fact checking” which we all know means by globalist controlled media outlets and so-called independent specialist fact checkers, approved and funded by globalist NGO’s and the like.
“I’m sure it will fix its “mistakes.” Nope, it is feature, not a bug.
The apologytomCJ at the end was a nice touch. Damage done, thanks for nothing!
H.A.L Move each letter of the acronym along by one letter in the alphabet and it becomes IBM, the world’s largest computer manufacturer at the time.
Success undermined IBM. There is hope.
Seems that Freedom Lovers everywhere commit their young to
daytime detention centres (aka – schools) for discipline and
obedience-training, so the young too will learn to love Freedom…
Those who share The Systems’ presuppositions have the Enemies
Fifth Column in their heads…
Those who half make a revolution dig their own graves…
Excellent article, thank you