Reciprocal Trust

The level of content on all sorts of social media platforms is literally suffocating. To some extent, we can say that without the demand for so much content—short-form content, obviously—we wouldn’t have it, right?

Much of it is garbage, if you ask me, like pure garbage. I use YouTube quite a bit every day, and based on the content I watch, algorithms recommend similar types of videos. Lately, I’ve been watching a ton of fitness-related videos, and thus, you guessed it…

My feed was flooded with similar ones. So many content creators out there are so full of shit, though. Like this guy claiming he stays in shape, with literally under 15% body fat, by training just three days a week. Man, I know a thing or two about fitness, and that guy was on juice.

By juice, I mean some sort of steroids. Even if it’s just testosterone, it’s enough of a boost to put you above the masses, but these fuckers ain’t telling the truth. They pretend their training and diet alone got them there.

The naive viewer can’t tell the difference. Many haven’t even heard of TRT, growth hormone, or whatever else, and they fall for the crap these so-called influencers are peddling.

There’s no doubt the masses are easily fooled, and while typing this post, I was thinking about this:

Google DeepMind rolled out two AI models this week that aim to make robots smarter than ever. Instead of focusing on following comments, the updated Gemini Robotics 1.5 and its companion Gemini Robotics-ER 1.5 make the robots think through problems, search the internet for information, and pass skills between different robot agents.

And…

Large language models—the systems behind ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other AI chatbots—showed deliberate, goal-directed deception when placed in a controlled experiment, and today’s interpretability tools largely failed to detect it.

Think about how easily AI will trick humans into believing all sorts of shit. I can only imagine the heights scammers will reach using AI in the next decade.

The media, in general, is built on lies and manipulation, but we haven’t yet seen what AI can do to amplify that.

The human species is about to get up close and personal with AI. Internet searches will become hyper-personalized, medical treatments will follow suit, and don’t get me started on dating apps…

Brains are being shaped by technology as we speak, but we can’t say human role models were any better. In the intro, I mentioned social media influencers who are delusive, to say the least.AI is gonna put these to shame… And the next decade is going to be a wild one… For sure…

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian