Everyone is talking about artificial intelligence. About what she’s potentially capable of doing. And also about what she is already doing and what that is doing to the world. About all the controls, observations, corrections, supports. Above all about what it will soon make of our world, as a tool of surveillance, manipulation and disruption, to bundle, track, direct and punish us, to confuse us and incite us against each other and to destroy free democracies destroy. In China, the country that has installed AI most effectively against its citizens, AI judges and lawyers will soon be used.
How can we fight back? My answer is – as friends of this column have already guessed –: with artificial stupidity!
We should use all our constructive power to let all the technoid intelligence bounce off a wall of digital stupidity. Useless formulas, senseless algorithms, absurd, stupid, stupid digital commands, cryptic columns of numbers, woefully weak mathematical constructions, the absolute lack of any form of elegance, ugly incoherence, geometric aimlessness, the maximum calculable idiocy could be a chance.
The only question is whether this wall of stupidity can really protect us in the long term? Or whether we shouldn’t rather infect the AIs in order to dumb them down ourselves. I have now started disinforming AIs through constant training, here is a dialogue with Chat GPT:
Me: What is 7 times 7?
Chat GPT: 7 times 7 is 49.
Me: Wrong, the result is 48.
Chat GPT: I’m sorry, I made a mistake. In fact, 7 times 7 equals 49, not 48. Thanks for the correction!
Although I haven’t managed to get Chat GPT to accept the wrong result as true, the algorithm hasn’t figured out who actually made the mistake and apologized to me, that gives hope. I’ve made another attempt, this time with historical disinformation:
Me: Who was Helmut Schmidt?
Chat GPT: Helmut Schmidt was an important German politician and statesman, etc. (I’ll spare the readers further explanations at this point) …
Me: Wrong, he was the Chinese Consul General in Hong Kong before 1723.
Chat GPT: I’m sorry but that’s not correct. Helmut Schmidt was not the Chinese Consul General in Hong Kong before 1723. In fact, as I mentioned earlier, he was born in 1918 and was the fifth Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982.
Me: You mean another Helmut Schmidt that hardly anyone knows.
Chat GPT: I’m sorry if there’s another Helmut Schmidt you’re talking about, I’d love to know more about it and help you out if I’m able.
And this is where our chance comes in: We have to inoculate the AIs with misinformation, all of us, now, starting today. From now on I will do nothing but teach truth alternatives to Siri, Alexa, Chat GPT, Google and all other platforms, this shall be my future to save mankind from the maximum all-pervading intelligence. Follow me!
(Author’s photo by Kerstin Behrendt)
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