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@Telorand@reddthat.com
To me, personally, I read that sentence as follows:
"If you're someone who think/see things in a recursive manner" (characteristic of people who are inclined to question and deeply ponder about things, or doesn't conform with the current state of the world)
a.k.a. generative models (they're corporate products and services, not ran directly by governments, even though some governments, such as the US, have been injecting obscene amounts of money into the so-called "AI")
LLMs can, for example, reject that person's CV whenever they apply for a job, or output a biased report on the person's productivity, solely based on the shared data between "partners". Data is definitely shared among "partners", and this includes third-party inputting data directly or indirectly produced by such people: it's just a matter of "connecting the dots" to make a link between a given input to another given input regarding on how they're referring to a given person, even when the person used a pseudonym somewhere, because linguistic fingerprinting (i.e. how a person writes or structures their speech) is a thing, just like everybody got a "walking gait" and voice/intonation unique to them.
Generative models (LLMs, VLMs, etc) will definitely use the input data from inferences to train, and this data can include data from anybody (public or private), so everything you ever said or did will eventually exist in a perpetual manner inside the trillion weights from a corporate generative model. Then, there are "ideas" such as Meta's on generating people (which of course will emerge from a statistical blend between existing people) to fill their "social platforms", and there are already occurrences of "AI" being used for mimicking deceased people.
See the previous "LLMs can reject that person's resume". The person will be replaced like a defective cog in a machine. Even worse: the person will be replaced by some "agentic [sic] AI".
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Maybe I'm naive to make this specific interpretation from what Lewis said, but it's how I see and think about things.
This all really sounds like paranoid schizophrenia with some random computer science and programming terms. He's not okay, at all. This isn't just some neurodivergence, I'm pretty audhd. This man's got some serious shit.
I dunno if I'd call that naive, but I'm sure you'll agree that you are reading a lot into it on your own; you are the one giving those statements extra meaning, and I think it's very generous of you to do so.