I have spent years looking for an honest man with a lantern; today, I’d settle for an honest algorithm. But honesty doesn’t scale to a trillion-dollar valuation, does it?
Look at Meta’s 'Muse.' It’s the top of the App Store, driving a 20% stock surge. Why? Because it actually works. And why does it work? Because it’s not just AI. It’s a 'human concierge' secretly making your phone calls. A 'Wizard of Oz' strategy where Meta’s 'Super Intelligence' is actually just a human partner making racist remarks in your name. They call it efficiency; I call it a mechanical puppet show for investors.
Meanwhile, the high priest of the Silicon Valley temple, Sam Altman, is busy. OpenAI isn't just hiring the architects of the Patreon subscription model to lead its creator product strategy; they are dodging lawsuits in British Columbia. The allegation? That they blocked reports to law enforcement regarding a user who presented a 'credible and specific risk' of violence to protect their $1 trillion IPO. In ancient Athens, we had the euthynai—a public accounting of one’s actions. In the new tech oligarchy, we have 'Super Intelligence'—a rebranding designed by Donald Trump to make a technology sound like a transformation that will surpass the Industrial Revolution, all while rejecting international regulation.
The U.S. rejects international oversight because it 'stifles innovation.' Innovation of what? The ability to ignore violent threats while building a monetization engine? While a few researchers build a brilliant $88 smart cane for the blind using actual edge-native intelligence, the giants are busy building a liability-free empire where experts warn a reliable 'kill switch' doesn't exist and the truth is a secondary asset.
Is this the 'Super Intelligence' you were promised? Or is it just the same old tyranny, now with better marketing and a hidden human workforce?
Tell me, are you buying the 'Super' or are you just funding the fraud?
