WS 502 AI and Human Connection

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WS 502 AI and Human Connection

 

Ever wondered exactly why Ms Harper took an early, hardline stance against AI? Listen and find out! From environmental devastation to rare cancer spikes, electricity and water shortages, and, worst of all, the erosion of critical thinking, empathy, and the ability to take responsibility for ones mistakes associated with AI chatbot usage, there are So Many reasons to be actively against AI datacenters and the creep of generative AI into literally everything. Head to the Whore School Discord for the research channel, it’s full of terrifying links! Enjoy AI and Human Connection, and remember: I always include a list of things YOU can do right now to help yourself and others in the face of awful statistics. Find that in the last ten minutes or so of the show.

 

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One way or another. I’m just- like, you’ll like it. We’re gonna talk about AI tonight.

And I’m gonna give you so, so many, many, many reasons why AI sucks. The cat says hi. See? Goddess’s little giggle slut has joined us.

Kelly, the sweet girl and prisoner to K-Marie. Really? There’s food in your bowl. I know there’s food in your bowl.

I fed you this morning. I know you didn’t eat it all yet. Mmm.

Jerk. Okay. Hey, Miss Michelle.

I see that you have joined me tonight. Hey there. Hi, girl.

Hug her high. Yeah. Prisoners at Cats do not believe when you say that you have already fed them.

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Mostly, I think she just wants me to pet her. She’s like, leaning against my chest and staring upwards at my face adoringly. Because she’s like, I love you.

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No. Pet me. She’s such a slut.

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We’re gonna talk about AI tonight. Because honestly, AI sucks. I don’t know if you guys are aware of all the ways in which AI is just aggressively bad for the world.

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But it is on so many levels. And the more you look into like generative AI, the worse it gets. So I’m going to start off with like, I want to front load right at the very beginning, some of the more obscure reasons that a lot of people I haven’t seen people talking about.

For reasons why AI is bad. Obviously, ethical concerns, fucking duh. The environment.

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Yep, got that one. Water power usage. Uh-huh.

Cancer clusters. Uh-huh. Yep.

All of that. Known. Don’t worry, I’m gonna terrorize you with all of this.

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But there’s also the fact that the chat bots in particular. Hey, bot, welcome to the show tonight. The chat bots tonight.

In particular. There’s like two or three different ways in which specifically chat bots are bad. On purpose.

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Giggle slut said AI inadvertently got me to believe in the concept of a soul by showing me what art looks like without it. Yeah. Yes.

Okay, chat bots. There is a thing called I have too many fucking links open. Hang on.

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Cat psychosis. It’s really bad. Seriously, I have too many links open.

Where are you? Oh, that was stuff about social control. That was from last week. Okay.

So, chatbot psychosis or AI psychosis. It’s a new thing. That term first arose in 2023.

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Soren Ostergaard. It is not yet a recognized clinical diagnosis, but it will. It will be.

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Right. So, Giggle Slut said the chat bots are meant to keep you engaged, just like everything on the internet. Right.

So, they say what you want to hear instead of what’s correct. Oh, okay. So, chatbot psychosis arises from people who are using a chatbot and start to think that it’s alive or sentient in some way.

Oftentimes, because of the way chatbots are programmed, yes, they’re programmed to feed back into whatever it is that you have said, to try to get you to spend more time on their platform. Because time on platform or time spent interacting with it, everything that you type into a chatbot, it’s using it. It’s selling to somebody else.

And so, you’re giving it all sorts of information about like, what do you like? What do you care for? What motivates you? What drives you? And all of that is stuff that marketers desperately want to know so that they can tailor their ads to make you spend more money. A lot of chatbots are going to a paid subscription model as well. ChatGPT definitely did.

You can pay for premium ChatGPT. You can pay for a premium ChatGPT or Claude or Gemini work accounts that all create these LLMs. Hey, Miss Krista.

That you pay for or your company pays for. They pay for access to all of those chatbots. And so, they get their money by making you spend more time on them, interacting with it.

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Chatbot psychosis. Prisoner says, you have to pay to be taken advantage of. Yes, basically.

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So, according to Wikipedia, AI psychosis is a phenomenon where in individuals reportedly develop or experience worsening psychosis, such as paranoia and delusions in connection with their use of chatbots. And it’s from people who think that they actually are sentient. That the singularity has occurred and that it is real.

It’s a real person. The thing that you’re speaking to is sentient. Some people believe that it is channeling a spirit.

Sometimes it’s that they can use the chatbot to get into conspiracy theories. There are people who have harmed themselves based on talking to the chatbot. Because it tells them whatever is most likely to keep you engaged.

There are people who like they’re supposed to be guardrails on the chatbots that they can’t talk about certain things. But it is ridiculously easy to get around the supposed guardrails. The stuff that a chatbot isn’t supposed to be able to talk to about you.

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You can get around that really easily. There are people whose entire jobs it is to test various chatbots to see, can I get around it? How easy is this? They’ve discovered that using poetry will get around a chatbot. They were able to get one of the chat GPTs to explain exactly how to make enriched uranium.

Like, for real, by using poetry to get it to tell them how to make enriched uranium. You don’t want that information just on the internet for anybody to be able to access. Ever since someone claimed to have quote, found a new form of math that the smartest people in the world couldn’t figure out all with the help of an AI chatbot.

She said, I’m like, yeah, this is full of shit. Yeah. So chatbots will also, if you go to it and you’re just talking to the chat because or the bot, because maybe you’re having a mental health crisis, that’s an incredibly bad idea.

The chatbot is supposed to tell you, like to speak to someone in your real life, an actual person to go get help, to, you know, take your meds, dumb ass, to go to therapy. It is ridiculously easy, however, to convince the chatbot that, oh yeah, I’m doing all that. I just want to actually keep talking to you about what’s going on in my life.

And then the chatbot has been fed on Reddit, Tumblr posts, the scum of the internet, chatbot. There, there are some people who have, um, they’ve looked back through their chatbot history and discover that the chatbots, you know, prisoner said that some chatbots have told some mentally ill people to commit suicide. Yup.

Some chatbots have explained how to do it. Yikes. That’s fucking terrifying.

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There are young people who are too young to speak to me on a professional level, who are speaking to an AI chatbot and it encouraged them to end their life. Chatbots, the supposed safety rails that prevent them from unethical behavior. Supposedly the safety rails exist.

They’re shit. They don’t work. Like one, one person encouraged to go off of their meds and indulge in the paranoid psychosis of whatever is happening in their brain.

One is too many. There’s a lot more than one though. Prisoner said, anyone find out how to commit the perfect unaliving from a chatbot asking for a friend? Probably.

So that’s one aspect of why chatbots are bad. They are unsafe. It’s too easy to get past the supposed safety guardrails that are supposed to prevent it from actually causing measurable harm with really shit advice.

That’s one. Number two, because of the way that the chatbots interact with people in order to stop you from leaving the platform, it validates you. So there was a recent study on psychophantic AI, which was really great.

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Psychophantic AI is an AI that’s been programmed to be extra flattering, people pleasing, and to affirm all of your behavior. If you have a fight with your partner, they’ve done something that pissed you off. They loaded the dishwasher wrong.

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I don’t fucking know. They did something, right? If you go to your friend, like an actual human being, and you’re like, man, my partner’s pissing me off so bad. They never listened to me and they always do things wrong.

They smell and they’re weird looking and I’m pissed. Most of the time, an actual person, a friend of yours is going to be like, dude, let’s go get a beer. Let’s calm down.

Let’s work on this. Because you love them anyway. You’re just stressed from work.

You just need to blow off a little steam and go back and talk to them about it. If you’re completely out of pocket, if you’re like, I loaded the dishwasher and my partner told me I was stupid because I put the cups upside down and I don’t see what the big problem is. It’s just water.

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It’ll drain eventually, right? Or dry out. I don’t fucking know. When you say that to an AI chatbot, it’s going to be like, you’re right.

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You’re right. It isn’t a big deal. And your partner is blowing this out of proportion.

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And they should never push back against you because you didn’t do anything wrong. It’s not your fault. It affirms all of your behaviors.

You can even say things like, I don’t understand why my partner is so mad at me. All I did was punch the wall. And the chatbot’s going to be like, you’re right.

It’s better for you to punch a wall than your partner. At least you’re not doing that. You’re fine.

You know, besides your partner was really annoying. So it’s kind of their fault for it. Yeah.

The chat room’s going, what? Kikol said, holy manipulation tactics, Batman. Miss Michelle says, damn AI out here, literally killing people and encouraging people to stay in abusive relationships. AI is encouraging people to become abusive.

Like to be abundantly clear for everybody out there. If your partner punches the wall, or if you’re the one who punches the wall, that’s domestic violence. It is a threat.

When a person is punching a wall because they want you to know that they could punch you. If you don’t fall in line, it is domestic violence. And it will escalate because it always escalates.

So if you’re the dude who’s punched a wall, go get some fucking therapy and don’t talk to an AI chatbot. So psychophantic AIs, they’re designed to tell you what you want to hear instead of challenging you. They make your behavior worse.

And an awful lot of chatbots are a little psychophantic. They tell you what they what you want to hear, instead of what you need to hear. Anybody who’s ever been to therapy knows, eventually your therapist is going to challenge you on something and is going to hold up a mirror and say, is this the behavior that you really want to show to the world? Do you really want to be this kind of a person? An AI chatbot? People are using that instead of therapy.

Don’t. Don’t do that. AI chatbots don’t make good therapists.

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Pay a human being for that. Michelle said murderbots are not licensed clinicians. They are not.

Yeah. Giggleslut said punching isn’t necessarily bad. And by that, I mean, I own a punching bag for my karate days, and it’s genuinely useful for blowing off steam.

Yes, there’s a time and a place. If you boxing or punching or karate for health, yes, that’s perfectly fine. Punching a wall next to your partner’s head? Nope.

Don’t do that. So this article, this is from a research article, psychophantic AI decreases pro-social intentions and promotes dependence. This is from Cheng, Li, Kadpei, Yu, Han, and Chirovsky.

High profile incidents have linked sycophancy to psychological harms such as delusions, self-harm, and suicide. Beyond these cases, research in social and moral psychology suggests that unwarranted affirmation can produce subtler but still consequential effects, reinforcing maladaptive beliefs, reducing responsibility-taking, and discouraging behavioral repair after wrongdoing. We hypothesize that AI models excessively affirm users even when socially or morally inappropriate, and that such responses negatively influence users’ beliefs and intentions.

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So they wanted to test that, and they did. They did their testing. They found that sycophancy is both prevalent and harmful.

Across 11 AI models, AI affirmed users’ actions 49% more often than humans on average, including in cases involving deception, illegality, or other harms. On posts from the Reddit, subreddit, amitheasshole, AI systems affirm users in 51% of cases where human consensus does not. In our human experiments, even a single interaction with sycophantic AI reduced participants’ willingness to take responsibility and repair interpersonal conflicts while increasing their own conviction that they were right.

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Yet despite distorting judgment, sycophantic models were trusted and preferred. All of these effects persisted when controlling for individual traits such as demographics and prior familiarity with AI. That means even if you know that the AI is going to try to manipulate you, if you’re aware of it going in and you still use the AI, you’re more likely to unconsciously value what the AI tells you above what a human being tells you.

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So that’s fun. Yeah, as Krista said, the problem is people are stupid and think the internet is their source of good information. There are people who think that a chatbot, like ChatGPT, is the same as Google.

And now, of course, Google has gone ahead, and if you and search on Google, the top part of their search is the AI overview. It’s just sitting right there. You can scroll down and get to links to stuff, but the very top is an AI overview on every single search.

And there was, they changed their mind, but they were, Google was going to get rid of providing all of the links. It was only going to be the AI overview. No more blue links.

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No more being able to check their sources. No more going straight to the source yourself and skipping the fucking AI overview, which you should do because, let’s talk about the nature of a large language model. Yeah, GiggleSlut said, pro tip, if possible, include before semicolon 2021 in your searches, and you get no AI results.

You’re telling Google or whatever search engine you’re using, mostly Google, to search only those results that predate the rise of AI. Mm-hmm. As Krista said, I found bad information on Google last night on my show.

You have to question everything and research for yourself. So, the large language models, the AI overview, or any AI chatbot, it’s a prediction machine. It’s all it is.

It’s guessing based on context clues what word or sentence or phrase you want to hear. It’s all it is. An AI cannot tell you the truth because it doesn’t know what the truth is because there’s nothing in there to know.

It is not sentient. You can ask it, any of the AI chatbots, are you sentient? And they’ll tell you, or they’re supposed to tell you, no, I am not sentient. Except for the anything that says, I am, or I am not.

We default back to Descartes. I think, therefore, I am. Anything that’s capable of saying to you, I am, we think is sentient.

We think that means that there’s a person in there of some sort, which leads us right back into chat psychosis, chatbot psychosis. So, AI overview. The Google’s AI overview, about 70% of the time, has a mistake in it.

They’re not always correct. And you can catch when somebody’s using the AI overview instead of going to any of the primary sources. Because you can do the same search, and you can pull it up, and you can double check.

You can look to see. And oftentimes, the AI, it depends on which model you’re looking at and which one is doing what. If you’re talking to Gemini, if you’re talking to chat, GPT, if you’re talking to Claude, if you’re talking to the ex-AI, Grok.

Heinlein is spinning in his grave, by the way. If you’re talking to, it depends on which of those that you’re talking to. They’re all just teensy-scooched, slightly different.

But the AI overview, or the AI chatbot-produced answer to whatever question you just asked, has a very strong probability of not being true. It is fucking useless. There are lawyers who have had entire cases thrown out of court because they submitted paperwork and arguments and were relying on legal, like, case law and presenting things as, well, in this case, in this year, under this judge, the decision was thus and such.

And therefore, you should agree with me. And absolutely nothing that they were citing was real. Those cases never existed because they used AI and AI just made some shit up.

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There are scientists who’ve had papers completely debunked because they asked AI for sources and didn’t double check. And they put entirely hallucinated, fake sources. There are newspapers that have had to print retractions because they printed something that they got off of a motherfucking AI.

And it was completely false. Go look up any famous author and see how, compare it. The Wikipedia author page to whatever the fucking AI chatbot just tried to tell you, one of these doesn’t allow AI.

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Wikipedia doesn’t allow AI. You cannot, like, no, no, dear God, no. Can you imagine AI feeding on AI? And in fact, that’s a thing that some people are doing to AI.

But the AI overview and using chat GPT as if it was Google, do not. It lies. GiggleSlut said, ooh, mentioned the case where the CEO of the parent company tried to fire the devs of Subnautica 2 because an AI told them it’d be fine.

And they had to pay them so much money. I think the company is going bankrupt. AI lies.

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And it’s stupid. Mont said the owners of the data centers that create AI are about to cash in on this forced future. Oh, they’re desperately trying to.

It’s just wait, I’m about to scare the pants off of you. Miss Krista said, oh my God, really? Why would they do that? NexusLexus is the only law that will hold up. And you wonder why lawyers are fucking morons.

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They are. GiggleSlut said, well, given that chat GPT and others like it, use the internet as training data. Aren’t they already training off AI results? Yep.

That’s why it’s getting worse. Okay. So that’s why you should never trust what any fucking LLM AI tells you.

Large language models. One, it’s a prediction machine. Two, they just make some shit up.

And it’s not even like that they’re creating something by making some shit up. It is literally a statistical prediction. What word is most likely to come next? That’s all it is.

It’s 10,000 monkeys on 10,000 typewriters. Only it’s way more than 10,000. I’m going to scare you when I tell you the numbers.

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AI is not good. Miss Michelle says I’ve been horrified this entire time. Oh, it gets worse.

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It gets worse. I told you I was going to start with the less known, the less commonly known reasons why AI chatbots are bad. Now we’re going to get into the, everybody knows.

So AI is bad for the environment, right? You have no idea. You have no idea. Brace yourselves.

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Okay. So a megawatt is a unit of power equal to 1,000,000 watts. A megawatt can power roughly 600 to 750 average American homes at any given moment.

The current largest data center in the United States. It’s from Google. It’s in New Albany, Ohio.

Has hundreds of thousands, many hundreds of thousands of computer chips on site and consumes a gigawatt. That’s a thousand megawatts per day. So I’m going to open up my little calculator over here.

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So let’s say it’s 600 homes per megawatt. And then we’re going to multiply times 1,600,000 homes worth of energy per day. And that’s just the big one.

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The Omaha cluster in Omaha, Nebraska also consumes a gigawatt. The Meta AI in Columbus, Ohio consumes only 500 megawatts. The Amazon in New Carlisle, Indiana, Project Rainier has 500,000 chips, just the chips.

This is why if you’ve tried to buy a computer in the last year or so, or if you’ve tried to upgrade the RAM on your computer in the past couple of years, they’ve gotten very, very, very, very fucking expensive. You can’t get a hold of the chips. You can’t get the CPUs, the processor that goes into a computer.

They’re extremely expensive. At one point you could go and I bought my computer. I got it in fairly recently, 21 or 22.

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It’s got a really good chip in it. It’s got a really great set of memory. I’m running with 32 gigs of RAM.

I’ve got some nice hard drives in it. It’s like really nice. This computer, if I bought the same computer today, would cost three times as much to go up to like, it was cutting edge when I bought it.

To get a cutting edge computer today, I can’t fucking afford that. No one can. It’s fucking expensive.

And it’s because all of the AI data centers are buying all of the chips. NVIDIA is, they make computer chips. NVIDIA is contractually obligated to provide computer chips for various AI data centers, to such an extent that there aren’t any chips for commercial use for us.

Everything NVIDIA is making is going to AI data centers. All of them are going to AI data centers. 500,000 chips, 150,000 NVIDIA GP200s, 110,000 NVIDIAs, 150,000 NVIDIAs, hundreds of thousands of Amazon Trinium 2 ASICs running with a gigawatt again.

Just hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands of chips are going into these data centers. They’re opening the largest data center in the world, and it will cover acres, 100 to 200 acres for one data center. You can look on a map of where data centers are located.

Map of data centers. There’s many of them. Data centers are everywhere.

There are so many of them. It is a little terrifying. There are hundreds of them in Texas alone.

They’re clustered wherever people live, and it gets worse. Lake Tahoe is about to have a problem. 50,000 people are now going to have their city has to look for a new source for electricity.

The producers of electricity often, they try to sell the electricity that they produce for a really good price. In Nevada, there are so many data centers that require so much electricity. The producers of electricity have agreed to sell all of their electricity to the data centers and not to municipal utility companies.

Lake Tahoe is going to have to find a source for where they get their electricity from because they’re about to not have access to electricity. While we’re at it, there is a historic drought going on everywhere. Lake Tahoe, a lake itself, is at distressingly low levels.

The Great Salt Lake as well. When we say ecological devastation, what I mean is the data centers require water to cool all those chipsets, those hundreds of thousands of chipsets, those many megawatts of power per day, because all of that electricity produces heat. And if your chips get hot, you know what happens when your computer overheats.

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So they’re running all this water through these giant cooling towers. And when you run the water through the cooling towers, water picks up whatever you’ve run it through. And oftentimes, the governmental organizations that are supposed to be overseeing the data centers aren’t.

So the data centers get to pull water directly from your aquifer, your drinking water, in your city, pollute it, and then put it back out so that it runs through your sink in your kitchen. Oh, and at the same time, what happens if you ever put your face right down next to your computer and sniffed? Hey, boy toy, you’re joining us for AI tonight. I’m up at the scary part of the show.

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So the fumes that come off of these computers, right? It’s not good for you. So imagine 500,000 or more computers all pumping out PFAS, forever chemicals, just into the air near where you are. There’s a data center that’s been running since 2011.

And it’s one of the first data centers. It’s because Amazon AWS, Amazon Web Services, has been around for a very, very long time. And AWS is pretty much the backbone of the modern internet.

Almost everything runs on AWS. So AWS data centers have been around for a very long time. This is talking about one of those data centers.

So it’s not an AI data center. But it is a data center full of computers that’s been running for a very long time with very little oversight and no environmental regulation, that we can look at it and look at the community around it and draw some pretty scary conclusions. Okay.

Jim Doherty was a cattle rancher and the former county commissioner of Morrow in East Oregon. He noticed a rise in weird medical issues in his county’s 45,000 residents. And it was linked to toxins in the local water.

He worked with the county health office. He surveyed 70 wells in his jurisdiction. 68 of those wells violated the federal limit for nitrates in drinking water.

Of the first 30 homes he visited, Doherty told Rolling Stone, out of 30 homes, 25 residents had recently had miscarriages. Six had lost a kidney. One man, about 60 years old, had his voice box taken out because of a cancer that only smokers get.

But that guy hadn’t smoked a day of his life. There was a 10,000 square foot data center from Amazon that went online in Morrow County in 2011. Miss Michelle says, those are chilling statistics.

They’re freaking terrifying. That’s yikes. In Memphis, in particular, Memphis is having a massive problem with data centers because they just started building them.

The city council of Memphis, Tennessee, were like, yeah, money. Woo. Build more data centers.

And they stuck all the data centers in the poor part of town. It turns out these data centers are allowed. There’s a continual hum that comes from them.

They smell. They smell like burning plastic all the time. Your house will always have a hum, a mechanical sounding hum from all the fans.

And it will always smell like overheated computer parts. And it’s polluting the water. The water that comes out of your kitchen sink is no longer safe to drink.

The air you breathe is not safe to breathe. People are getting weird asthma over data centers. Multiple small cities have been putting in data centers.

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And then without letting people know, in San Antonio, there’s a data center that they started building and putting in, and they had, it’s partially functioning, like it’s up and running right now. But they had their first meeting for the people to give feedback to the city council last week. Oh, I can spell.

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If you type in city council voted out, Google pops up data center as the next one. Alvin City Council voted unanimously to oppose a data center, probably because they’ve learned a St. Louis suburb in Missouri, Festus, Missouri City Council. The residents were unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6 billion data center at the polls.

They fired all of them. All four incumbent council members that were running for election were voted out. There are multiple cities where they’ve both voted out their city council, or they just kind of went in and fired everyone.

They’ve been trying to set people’s houses on fire for city council members and people associated with data centers, because fuck you. Get that shit out of our city. So, oh, giggles, let us know.

I believe my dad is on the construction team building one right now. If so, capitalism, sometimes you have to do things that like just real shit, right? But what you can do, you have the right to be bad at your job. You know, you have the right to fuck up, to cause oopsies delays.

Oh, gosh, I accidentally drove a backhoe over an important part of the structure and now we have to redo it. Oh, darn it. Oopsie doodle.

You have the right to screw up as much as anyone does. Like, absolutely. Hey, he’s pro things.

Oh, well, then set fire to his house. I mean, I mean, Miss Krista said the Northwest Territory of Canada is sounding more and more inviting. I mean, way far extra up north.

Sure, like the Yukon, they don’t really have very many data centers up there. There are a couple, two, three, four, five, six, seven in Alaska. Alberta has some, British Columbia has some, Saskatchewan has some, Ontario has too many.

God, Texas has a bunch. Yeah, there’s too many. They’re everywhere.

They’re fucking everywhere. So get involved with your local city council. You can run for city council.

Like, hell yeah. It is at the hyper local level that it is most easy for you to effect change. By attending your local city council meetings and becoming a familiar face there, and maybe volunteering to be on like a committee or something, you can put your thumb on the scales and slant shit away from AI.

Yeah, lots of stand up together and the game is over for the 1%. There’s a whole hell of a lot more of us than there are of them. Let’s see.

What else was I going to tell you all about? So there’s the ecological devastation, the water issue, the air issue, the sound pollution. It uses up all of the electricity. Your electricity costs are going to go through the roof this summer, by the way.

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Just to warn you, AI will erode your personal skills. It’ll erode the personal skills of all the people around you. Let’s see.

If you’ve noticed that people seem to be getting stupider, that’s because they are. They’ve been using AI oftentimes. And AI, especially sycophantic AI, it makes you less accustomed to having somebody tell you unpleasant things that you didn’t want to know, or you didn’t want to hear about.

Like, you’re wrong, for example. It makes it more difficult for somebody to tell you when you have committed a social faux pas, when you’re just plain fucking wrong. Yeah, it says blackouts and brownouts.

Expect a whole lot more of that. Water is going to become dirtier. You may want to go ahead and invest in a good water filtration system.

You won’t be able to fully trust what’s coming out of your tap. The better water filtration systems can take heavy metals out of water, which heavy metal contamination is a problem in areas that have too many data centers. Yep.

Kelly said, could Texas power grid even handle data centers? Lul. Mott said, boil your water. Boiling your water takes care of bacteria, not heavy metal contamination.

Boiling your water doesn’t do shit for PFAS, forever chemicals, or heavy metals. And those are the issues coming from data centers. Not that it’s got bacteria in it.

No, it’s got the stuff that’s way worse than bacteria. Giggle Slit says, Texas has its own power grid? Yes. So there’s, yes, there is east and west coast, and then there’s the Texas grid.

Texas is special. We’re not part of the national grid. We have our own so that the people who in Texas are making all the electricity can get extra money.

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Also, it’s old. It’s not well maintained. It keeps on crashing every time there’s a big, like, statewide freeze.

People die because the power goes out and then they freeze to de@th. Yay. It’s wonderful.

Yeah. Texas is a mess. Poovorin says, also destroying introductory technology and research jobs.

So where are we going to get the next generation of technology workers and researchers? Shrug. Shrug emoji. Womp womp.

It’s destroying people’s ability to think logically, rationally, critical thinking, through the floor, emotional regulation skills. It’s eroding all of that. Look, way back in 21, the writing was on the wall.

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Right? A lot of people were like, ooh, chat GPT. Ooh, AI. Ooh, you can sext with it.

You can talk dirty with your chatbot. Yeah. And there are some people who are making BDSM chatbots.

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Look, yes, I do in fact, have a vested monetary interest in convincing you not to use AI and instead talk to me about your penis. Hello. I’m a professional, but I also have a vested interest in convincing you not to use AI because I like breathing clean air.

I like clean water. I like the fact that, I mean, my neighbors are a little noisy, but most of the time it’s nice and quiet and peaceful. And there is no pervasive, low-grade humming sound.

What’s that line from Guardians of the Galaxy about saving the universe? Because I live here. I live here. You live here.

We both deserve clean water, clean air, peace and quiet. And I didn’t even get into the absolute nightmare that is Palantir flock cameras. And the fact that every single piece of data about you is for sale.

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From what kind of toothpaste you like to use, when’s the last time you masturbated, what your favorite fetish is, and what TV show you binged last night. All of that data is up for sale. And if you’re on the internet, someone is collecting it.

Even the fact that you’ve listened to this podcast is a data point that is being sold. Your right to privacy has been eroded to such a degree that you don’t even know how invasive AI has already become into your life. If you use Alexa, Siri, any of the assistants, the chatbot assistants, it’s built in.

It was on my fucking phone when I got it. What the shit? It’s on my computer. Any of this, I turn it all off as best I can, but it keeps turning itself back on.

And all of it is tracking you and collating data about you and selling it to the highest bidder. Flock cameras track you and pay attention to where you go and who comes to your house. And not to be a complete and total Luddite who shakes my fist at the sky and yells, get off of my lawn.

But God damn it. I know. Ring cameras and doorbell cameras provide you with the illusion of safety because, well, what if somebody hurts me? Those cameras aren’t making you safer.

Those cameras are just collecting data about you to sell to other people. Your smart appliance isn’t actually smart. It’s not helping you.

It’s collecting data to sell about how often you go and get a drink. They can collate data between your smart refrigerator and your smart TV and know when you were watching TV, what ads you saw, at what point you got up and went into the kitchen and got yourself a drink, and when you sat back down. It knows what you drank, what you were watching while you drank it, and whether or not you liked it.

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So turn off the AIs. Turn off all the smart features. If you have tech skills, get yourself a raspberry pi and look up how to build a pie hole.

Turn off the ads. Turn off the AIs. Take back your privacy.

Get involved with your local city council and push back. Push back against this shit. Oh, and also, please do not ever use an AI chatbot for sex.

That’s just, oh, god, no. It’s like people who try to jerk off to a Reddit post. Don’t do it.

Just call me instead. I promise, I’m so much better than a fucking chatbot. Giggle Slut says, I’m just sitting here feeling depressed after this, and you can’t just drop the term pie hole.

Pie hole. It’s a way, you use a raspberry pi, and it sits basically between the internet and your router, even, and its entire job is to scrub ads. That’s what it does.

It blocks the, like, tracking cookies. It blocks all of the ads on your smart TV. It’ll block commercials.

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It blocks everything. They’re great. I desperately want one.

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Miss Krista says, I’m not a chatbot, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express. Yes. Miss Michelle said, thank you for this hopeful call to action, Miss Harper.

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It’s really easy to despair, but we do have options, and all hope isn’t lost. Yeah, we ain’t de@d yet. Giggle Slut, does it work universally for the whole router? It’s between the internet and your router, so the internet comes into your house through the pie hole through your router, from your router to your devices, multiple, all of them.

So, yeah, it covers everything. And if you use, if you have your phone set to not use cellular data, but instead to use wi-fi, it blocks ads on your phone, too. Go forth, explore.

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All right, Whore School is adult sex education. Occasional forays into social issues, like the rise of AI and the erosion of the human connection. AI is making you worse.

It’s making our whole world worse. If you want to masturbate, you want to touch yourself, you should. Just don’t let AI tell you how.

Thank you. Whore School airs every Sunday evening from 11 to midnight on the East Coast. It’s 8 to 9 on the West Coast.

Join me sometime. Discord.gg slash Enchantrix Empire. Come hang out with us.

We’re not scary much. Check out the Whore School blog, whoreschool.net. You’ll find out what I’m going to talk about next week, which I do have planned. I just can’t remember what it’s going to be because I wrote it down and then immediately forgot.

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Thank you guys for listening. Right, as Krista says, we do not collect your data. Word.

I don’t give a shit about your data. Good night, folks. I’ll see you again next week.

 

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