What’s interesting, to me, is that’s exactly how people hedge in the fringe UFO community too. The difference is this AI prediction has real data woven into it. And the UFO people have “stories” and right wing grifters in our current administration pushing the idea.
I’m not trying to be dismissive, I just noticed that the year 2027 is popular for predictions, and has been for 4-5 years.
Oh, and I forgot to list fusion power being cracked. I’ll go add it. There are a bunch of startups right now. Sam Altman just stepped down from the board of one of them to address conflict of interest issues. Allegedly.
People online are predicting everything will happen in 2027.
Aliens are revealed
China invades Taiwan
The singularity happens/super intelligence happens (basically, this post)
The Antichrist appears and or Jesus returns
Trump dies and JD Vance takes over
Fusion power is figured out
A conspiracy minded person could tie all of these together. Especially with a the Iran war starting and looking like it’s going to drag on.
If you look them all up you’ll find fringe people or mainstream people talking about each. So 2027 is either going to have a lot of goalpost moving, or maybe a few of the things will pop off.
I think platform holders have a responsibility here to intentionally augment the algorithm.
YouTube already does it with other content. Look into what they did years ago about videos that children upload of themselves. I’ve always suspected that action, along with trying to limit rabbit holes into radicalization, years ago, is what ruined their original more pure “people who like this video like these videos” algorithm.
The victims of child exploitation? Or the lawyers representing them? Or..? I’m not asking about vague general “save the children” stuff. I’m talking about this lawsuit and similar.
And there are countless AI hype bros who will just dismiss all of this and call the people who fall into this morons.
It’s really insidious.