AI is a Prostitute
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by Troler
Free Software fundamentally misses the point. It fails on a practical, ideological, economic, and political level. Let’s examine precisely how (in a slightly different order for the purposes of presentation).
I am addicted to AI. This started in 2019, when I was playing around with various clearly in-progress predictive machines. Your primitive image labeling, colorization of B&W images, AI chatbots. It was a time when we laughed at how terrible this AI was. ↩ Reply
Chatbots became harder to distinguish from humans, YouTube more addictive, life more miserable. And so many people turned to this new found hope of ChatGPT. I was hesitant, I saw from early on how flawed the technology was, so I did not pursue it. But it infested everything. All crepts of software and life became AI. Comments began to be filled with sayings "ChatGPT said that...". The word "I" became "AI". ↩ Reply
I played more with it, getting closer and closer. The AI was stripping in front of me, teasing, knowing that the best climax warrants heating up. I used AI to fix grammatical errors in my texts. I used it like an egalitarian tool. I found it useful in some cases. I played around, always staying cautious. But it came to be useful for some things. ↩ Reply
This was the time I watched a lot of video essays about AI. They were a big thing. The focus first was on the practical side, then it shifted to art. And when the main discussion was about AI in context of art, there was not too much to be found. It seemed like society had created a forced belief and enforced it on everyone. AI was the threat to artists and maybe programmers. No one else. ↩ Reply
I was still wary of this AI. Even though I let it near me, it still was foreign. But something happened, some event of happenstance occurred and I engaged more and more with it. Such a thing did not occur over night, but I felt something in it. I used it mostly for playing AIDungeon, fixing and analyzing grammar mistakes and sometimes as a search engine. ↩ Reply
This really amplified when I started internship, whereby I sat at the computer largely unsupervised. There I read Gilles Deleuze in my spare time, but the hard-to-approach style came to be difficult to parse. So I used the Google's Gemini to simplify the language for me. I used the AI function constantly, essentially outsourcing my thinking to a predictive model. It was convenient, but there was a trap. A thirst trap. I got hook-winked to a prostitute of information. ↩ Reply
The fact the AI prompted further questions is what really hooked me in. This form of engagement, of asking what it offered me to ask, lead me to engage more and more with it. This was its form of payment for me giving it data about myself. For every answer, it raised 3 more questions. And for those 3 answers, 9 more arose. The ultimate addiction. c:3 ↩ Reply
AI came to be my subsistence, my Annamaya kosha. When I saw myself using it more and more, to read basic, elementary text, there I came to understand that this is a huge problem. No longer it came to be a search engine. It gave me sources, yet I did not follow along what sources it provided. I was satisfied with the short and brief answers. But not really, I desired more and more information. c:4 c:5 ↩ Reply
Each time the questions were resolved, the itch to ask more and more came again and again. I followed leads, given to me by AI. From Algis Uždavinys and from him further on to other people he reference. All those references, I looked up using the AI. One of such were Charles Upton), a man of particular harsh opinion on the Internet and even AI. Here forth I came to the video on AI. It intrigued me very much, since I knew that if Algis Uždavinys found anyone admirable, and that man is also of a stern personality and great intellectual prowess, then I ought to pay attention. ↩ Reply
The video shook me up, like no other video on AI had. Since it handled the problem at its root, at what reality this AI was: ↩ Reply
It is a reaction to overbearing care, so called paternalism. By giving the user so much control and freedom, that it paralyses them. It is the paralysis from too much information, too many questions, too much of opended questions. Yet, in such a strange way, it became even more paternalism. As such, AI is radical opposition to despair of enforcement ↩ Reply
It tackles the problem of having a select few channels of information, providing only limited subset of what may be of specific interest to one, by providing only questions. ↩ Reply
It seeks questions, possibilities, in order to flee from actual discoveries, the necessity of thinking. There is no need to actually make itself truly necessary, it just hijacks the human desire to be curious, to look at the stars and ponder and answer all questions with 42, would you like to know more about Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy references?
The answer to that question is yes and it moves the discussion forward, never truly satisfying us. That's because curiosity does not want certainty, it wishes to be titillated. One does not stop being curious, I never stopped being curious and it brought frustration and discovery. ↩ Reply
As Charles Upton argued, it sees the paralysis of the totalitarian societies, the rigidity of formality and throws it all away. There is no system of control, there is no logic behind it, it just gives you guesses. It operates on guessing what's the best answer to continue you giving it guesses. That's why AI cannot resolve conflicts, why it is the cause of the October 7 attacks. ↩ Reply
The video ties in AI development with evolution (or devolution) of poetry. Which may seem like something I'd oppose, but it is not speaking on copyright or some other robotic ad nauseum issue. No, the author dives into the psychic implications of the tool, how it is the ultimate extension of society we live in. ↩ Reply
In it, a formidable example is given: it takes lines of poetry, shuffles them around and builds new poetry. This is the William Seward Burroughs II Cut-up technique ↩ Reply
AI never stops asking questions, it always does something new, but never goes back and reflect what it had done. It may seem like it had learned, but those who dabbled with it enough, can tell it does not truly learn the way a person does. ↩ Reply
What it does is imitate learning, to calm us. The learning is just changing predictions, making us do what it ultimately desires: to ask more questions, to engage. In a way, as Charles Upton points out, it suffers from mimicry of others, the Latah disease. ↩ Reply
All of these pantomimes and prostitutions are a means to an end, to completely control the attention of the user. No wonder your big tech corporations of Googles and Facebooks are interested in it so much, it works like a proxy to Social Media. A social media where there are no people. Not to say the real social media is any better, with its infestation of AI generated posts, comments and trends. ↩ Reply
At the end of the day, I spent more time engaging with the AI, learning things of dubious factual reality and not doing the work as well as I could've. Curiosity is being exploited and extinguished. And worst of all, the words Artificial Intelligence misleads us what true intelligence is. ↩ Reply
It is not statistical probability of an argument being true, but assessment of what in front of us and understanding it. This thirst for understanding is not aimless and people with discipline are able to combat the evils of AI. They seek specific things to know and they find them. A fool is one who falls into the spiral of asking questions and being semi-satisfied with open ended answers. When their daily bread, the so called Annamaya kosha, is being in despair in possibilities, there's little hope. ↩ Reply
And when the cure to this artificial problem is more ARTIFICIAL, human psyche withers and sheds its inner core, until only the human body remains. Until all a human is a diseased victim of Latah, holding onto formalities, in a highly structured society, hoping nothing would collapse. ↩ Reply
When we no longer understand what intelligence is, there is little hope. ↩ Reply
There is little hope, yet. Deleuze, the man who sent me to this spiral has an answer. Because he proposed that society works by taking possibilities and giving them names, shapes. It takes all forms of jobs a person can perform and gives them names, qualifications, expectations. AI is schizophrenic in that regard. It just asks more and more questions, it chissles at the fabric of the creator of order, the so called socius and leaves with nothing. ↩ Reply
Do not ask questions, seek understanding. And maybe that schizophrenic prostitute is going to leave us alone. c:8 ↩ Reply
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Blender Dumbass
c:0 July 18, 2026OMFG this is a fucked up thumbnail. Especially it sounds as tone deaf as an interview with Nicolas Winding Refn. If you assert that AI = bad because AI = prostitute. And you use Iris as an image for it. You assert Iris is bad? WTF?
Blender Dumbass
c:1 July 18, 2026 The word I became AI.
It would be better as:
The word "I" became "AI". Because it makes it easier to read.
Blender Dumbass
c:2 July 18, 2026 watched a lot of essays about AI
I understand it, but it sounds cursed AF.
Blender Dumbass
c:3 July 18, 2026 The fact the AI prompted further questions is what really hooked me in. This form of engagement, of asking what it offered me to ask, lead me to engage more and more with it. This was its form of payment for me giving it data about myself. For every answer, it raised 3 more questions. And for those 3 answers, 9 more arose. The ultimate addiction.
⤴ ViewProbably designed to do this on purpose. lol
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Troler
c:6 July 18, 2026@blenderdumbass I go into it later on. No wonder social media conglomerates are so into AI, it is basically the same business model, minus the human factor.
Blender Dumbass
c:4 July 18, 2026 to read basic, elementary text
⤴ ViewShould people read this article of yours by feeding to AI and writing comments by copy-pasting what it said back?
Or you want people to actually read it and engage with it?
Hm...
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Troler
c:7 July 18, 2026@blenderdumbass Were they to use AI, then their reading experience would be easier, but more formulaic and lacking the human touch.
Blender Dumbass
c:5 July 18, 2026 I desired more and more information.
⤴ ViewThis is funny. You use AI to avoid thinking. But get frustrated with the lack of information. You want to know more and that reinforces the addiction loop. This is some rather ironic set of events.
Troler
c:6 July 18, 2026... c:3
Blender Dumbass c:3 July 18, 2026 The fact the AI prompted further questions is what really hooked me in. This form of engagement, of asking what it offered me to ask, lead me to engage more and more with it. This was its form of payment for me giving it data about myself. For every answer, it raised 3 more questions. And for those 3 answers, 9 more arose. The ultimate addiction.
⤴ ViewProbably designed to do this on purpose. lol
@blenderdumbass I go into it later on. No wonder social media conglomerates are so into AI, it is basically the same business model, minus the human factor.
Troler
c:7 July 18, 2026... c:4
Blender Dumbass c:4 July 18, 2026 to read basic, elementary text
⤴ ViewShould people read this article of yours by feeding to AI and writing comments by copy-pasting what it said back?
Or you want people to actually read it and engage with it?
Hm...
@blenderdumbass Were they to use AI, then their reading experience would be easier, but more formulaic and lacking the human touch.
Blender Dumbass
c:8 July 18, 2026 Do not ask questions, seek understanding. And maybe that schizophrenic prostitute is going to leave us alone.
⤴ ViewMaybe there could be a way to invent something like LibreJS that blocks all AI-gen stuff on the internet. This would make research very fun indeed.
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