# The Crazy Years

**URL:** <https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451>\
**Category:** The Happening World\
**Tags:** crazy-years, clown-show\
**Created:** [30 May 2022 12:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451 "2022-05-30T12:56:57Z")\
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**Post date:** [23 May 2024 18:23 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-crazy-years/1451/4077 "2024-05-23T18:23:39Z")

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No, it’s an application of this concept:

> [@Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, and Image Synthesis](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/generative-artificial-intelligence-large-language-models-and-image-synthesis/2383/523):
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> A hypothetical automated news architecture: And a reminder about what’s at stake: The most pressing threat to humanity in the years to come will come not from autonomous machines but from programmed people. Though not recognized as such, extremely unreliable and flawed forms of these programmed devices, in the guise of human beings, have been around for thousands of years. Legions of soldiers marching unquestioningly to their deaths, religious cultists accepting articles of faith without do…

Don’t underestimate the power of pumping out biased reporting that free-rides the reporting work by someone else.

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