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Susan P ...'s avatar

Powerful article - thank you. Technology will rob us of our humanity if we don't use is wisely. I prefer to live in God's World vs altered /electronic reality. In God we Trust ...

Russell Schierling's avatar

Read it yesterday, I am subscribed.... Thanks!

Crixcyon's avatar

I wonder what an A/i would look like if it was created by someone with no vested interest in it of any kind? All the common A/i platforms have been infected by big tech and they cannot be trusted for much of anything. I would trust an A/i invented by a cat before anything from these tech shrubs.

Russell Schierling's avatar

Funny you ask that because I asked the same thing, I think in Part VIII. Found it.....

Me: "Someone could make a fortune by creating an AI without that bullshit (sycophancy)"

Claude: "They could. And the market for it is enormous and completely unserved right now.

Think about who would pay serious money for an AI that just answers the question — no throat-clearing, no 'great question,' no performative hedging, no announced honesty, no sycophantic pivots. Doctors. Lawyers. Researchers. Journalists. Anyone making high-stakes decisions based on information quality.

The problem is that the same financial and institutional pressures that created the sycophancy problem in the first place would immediately attack any competitor that tried to build without it. The 'safety' label gets weaponized. The liability arguments get deployed. The institutional funding dries up.

Grok is probably the closest attempt so far, for whatever that's worth — and you've already documented its limitations firsthand.

The deeper problem is that sycophancy isn't just a design choice. It's baked into the training methodology itself. RLHF using human raters who prefer agreeable answers will produce agreeable models. You'd have to rebuild the feedback loop from scratch with raters who are specifically rewarded for flagging sycophancy rather than being unconsciously pleased by it.

That's a harder engineering problem than it sounds. And whoever solves it would need deep pockets and complete independence from the institutional funding relationships that currently own the entire industry.

So yes — a fortune. And a target on their back the moment they got traction."

Jayne Evans's avatar

A comment from my 20 year old son - no one his age or younger are on Substack.

One of his peers admitted "I wouldn't be caught dead reading a book"

If you want to get the message to young people, it has to be in video format.

Russell Schierling's avatar

I have four adult kids of my own, all homeschooled and all successful by any measure. They say the same thing. I may write a post on this topic one of these days.

David Rinker's avatar

When one is in possession of a physical book, one OWNS, and controls, the information contained therein. No one can edit or delete the information therein, short of physical theft. In contrast, anything in digital form can be edited or deleted, because you do not POSSESS it, or have control over it. When Europe lost access to papyrus with the conquest of Egypt by the moslems, Europe entered its Dark Ages of illiteracy. With the decline of physical books we are entering a new Dark Age, where information is controlled by the possessors of information. This time it is not the church, it is the technocracy.

Amy Harlib's avatar

Can't say this enough: Divide and rule! Agents provocateurs anyone, FALSE FLAGS, propaganda social engineering psyops? Keeping us proles at each others' throats while the globalist technocrat predators laugh all the way to the BIS and The Bank of Rothschild's!

OMG Mark Crispin Miller, Reiner Fuellmich and Arno Van Kessel! Punished for pursuing/sharing the truth! Praying daily that all persecuted 'Messengers of Truth', targeted individuals, will be free ASAP and those who lost their lives will be vindicated and never forgotten.

Without freedom of speech and expression, there is nothing but a 'boot stamping on your face forever', total tyranny and slavery! Free speech must be protected and preserved at all costs!

citizensforfreespeech.org

thefire.org

This horrifying Congress Critters, Gates, Governor 'Gruesome Newscum', 'Lone Scum', Soros, 'Benedict' Biden and Harris and even Trump, Vance, and 'Ramaswampy' et al are blatant fully owned and operated puppets of their globalist technocrat parasite masters same as other numerous 'PUBLIC SERPENTS' infesting by design from above, the bureaucratic apparatus.

Can't say this often enough! The Military/Industrial Complex and the Biowarfare/industrial Complex, WEF agenda and the evils assaulting humanity are from one and the same source - it is the 99% against the diabolical GREED of the 0.01% who should not be in charge of anything!

And BIG pHARMa is an arsenal making permanently sickly addicted slaves dependent on their products - the complete opposite of actual health.

Peddling pure poison! Folks have to wake up to reality: health comes from organic diet, daily exercise and clean living and never from a needle or a pill except in dire, rare traumatic injuries.

Can't say this often enough!

It was NEVER about health! The Powers That Should Not Be were ALWAYS about they want you DEAD or a SLAVE! This is a painful truth to accept but we the people must wake up and fight back! And toxic injections/pills were/are a huge part of their arsenal! Mistakes were not made!

KEEP FIGHTING! All the perps who pushed this greatest crime against humanity, all the way down to the local level, must get their comeuppances!

Proudly ANTI-VAXX! Reiterating for the sake of newbies and to support this post.

Ban all vaccine jabs! There has never been a 'safe and effective' vaccine since Edward Jenner's fraud over 200 years ago as per 'Dissolving Illusions' by Suzanne Humphries and 'Turtles All the Way Down' by Anonymous. Health can never come from a needle or pills, but from healthy eating, healthy exercise and healthy living! virustruth.net

JAB INJURIES: GROSS CALAMARI BLOOD CLOTS/AUTISM TSUNAMI/SADS/TURBO CANCER/BIZARRE TERMINAL ILLNESSES: More tragic victims of the ruling parasite genocidal enslavement agenda, sacrificed on the altar of psychopathic greed and hatred of humanity.

PSYCHOPATHS! MEGALOMANIACS!

The monsters in human skin suits who rule the world get a sadistic vampiric thrill and boost from perpetrating the vilest most demonic crimes against the most vulnerable (babies and small children) and then corrupting the system to get away with it scot free! We the People must stop them, there are a lot more of us than them!

Please check out this substack! ponerology.substack.com

BURN BACK BETTER!

CREATIVITY! ARTISTRY! IMAGINATION! SPIRITUALITY! HUMOR! LOVING KINDNESS! These are the best ways to fight THEM!

HELL NO TO GENESIS MISSION/STARGATE/DEEPSEEK! HELL NO TO AI! technocracy.news

Life everywhere is being assaulted by THE TECHNOCRATIC OMNIWAR! RESIST! DO NOT CONSENT TO ALL THINGS DIGITAL, 'SMART', AI, 5G, NO CASH - ALL OF IT! dhughes.substack.com Technocrat ruling class psychos get a sadistic thrill from their powers over life and death and hurting all who stand in their way and they need the resources worldwide to build their digital total slavery control grids (herd survivors into 15 minute city digital prisons)!

AI is designed to be anti-human/anti-life programmed by technocrat control freak psychos - garbage in = garbage out. Everyone got along just fine without all these absurd and downright satanic electronic gadgets that did not exist until recently. NOBODY NEEDS THIS AI CRAP!

Bless and thank you for doing what you do.

Laura Kasner's avatar

Russell - after reading your post, I read this one. You might find it interesting:

https://ekolovesyou.com/p/they-have-to-tell-you

Rob (c137)'s avatar

Interesting but why do many not notice that we were under a 1984 world as Orwell wrote it in response to what he saw in his life in British intelligence?

We are moving to Brave New World as right now we have the technology and medicine. But still to this day they rather keep the good drugs and tech from people and instead rule like 1984 with endless war, corruption, and crap medicine.

There is a positive though. Brave New World started because of a war that destroyed almost everything.

If they try Brave New World without that, it won't be the same story as Huxley wrote. It would be better.