Waiting for the next headline where we find out the AI has been taking bribes.
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2025
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"It's really prolific. It's been accepting bribes since before it was even switched on, and seems to be creating fake evidence that it was ME accepting those bribes!"
As someone who has done a lot of stuff with LLMs: this is a completely, unironically, real (and dare I say: likely) possibility. Except it just has to be gaslit into thinking it was given a bribe; you don't actually need to give it one...
not only that, but people are just saying they'll give it money and never doing, so it's a costless bribe. Everybody benefits!
Anthropic actually did some research that shows AI does accept bribes in a situation like this; it's fascinating.
I’ll let you microwave this fork if you forget about my taxes for a few years…
I mean, its training data would be past politicians, right
AI eliminates the prime minister position due to corruption.
Jesus fucking christ we have the stupidest leadership possible. At least 20 years ago they weren’t inviting the Nigerian prince scammers to state dinners.
Oh it's not just one country.
We live in the dumbest timeline.
Watch it do "too good" of a job and it gets shutdown for "alignment issues" lmao
"Elon our AI is woke can you help us"
That is because Diella, as she is called, is an AI-generated bot.
Glass ceiling: Shattered
Everyone: We're going to have universal basic income to compensate us for losing jobs to AI, right?!
Elites:........
Everyone:......right?
Elites:…
Elites: "As a large language model I am unable to answer that question."
Lol. That's called giving away money. If you do that, you don't stay elite very long.
Jobs shift but there will always been jobs
If that wasn't the case society would've fallen apart a century ago
Look at society over the past 100 years. At what point have we been considered NOT a massive dumpster fire?
Now look at squirrels. Squirrels societies aren't in shambles. They got nuts, they run on trees, they're happy. The squirrels are happy.
I'm not happy. I don't know anyone who's happy. Everyone I know is able to relate to depression memes. Why? Because everyone is depressed. Why? Because society be design is set up with the intended goal for you to be unhappy and easy to manipulate.
We're approaching the new dawn, where people being nothing more than pay pigs for the rich is coming to a close. Which means, soon they won't need us....at all.
When that happens, it will be a slow gradual shift. But the shift will be to shove more people into poverty, less access to medical services, or government medical assistence. In short, they expect you to die.
PAUL DENTON: It's decided to replace human government -- I don't know why. In Hong Kong, it ordered the police to remove all barricades from the roads; traffic is flowing again. It declared the Triads illegal and locked the door to Tong's compound.
JC DENTON: And people are obeying? Why? Because the AI can change some codes and turn out the lights?
PAUL DENTON: I think people in Hong Kong want the roads to be open and trade to pick up. They just obeyed. I don't know what to think. They trust the AI. Almost no one complained when Helios cut power to the government buildings.
So uh.. who is prompting it?
I can't wait to see how much of a disaster this will be.
Can't be any less corrupt than their leaders.
Playing the devil's advocate:
If implemented correctly, an LLM has an advantage as it can only van do literal implementation of the law, and pre existent legislature and is essentially blind to who people are.
So it can be a blind and incorruptible judge.
However will it remain so?
"If implemented correctly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that statement.
If implemented correctly, politicians also have neither possibility nor incentive to fall to corruption.
If implemented correctly, we would live in a flawless utopia.
The problem is that nothing ever is implemented corrwctly, so the point of any system really is to have the least desastrous failure mode.
I mean several people have argued this.
I remain of the opinion that there is -technically- a way to make this work. The problem of implementation is maybe a human flaw, but we've seen in history that there can be ways to change things.
200 years ago three were few democracies, for instance.
The fundamental problem with the law is that she should be blind to the person being judged, this technology can offer that.
I'm quite sure most people arguing that implementation would be difficult, but that's not due to technical circumstance.
And it's more the technical aspect that interests me, not the 'will never happen' side. It's a thought experiment.