Date: Sunday October 26 2025
       
       I am not afraid of AI systems. I mean in the form of generative
       models, taking over the world. They will not do that in a good
       nor a bad way. In 2025,  one is still forced in debates to
       take one of two stances: genAI will replace us for good or will
       kill us all for bad. What if it is neither? We will hit a wall and
       can only generate endless slop and funny cat videos after that.
       
       For this last scenario I don't need to speculate. That is happening
       now, today, in the world around. GenAI is fantastic effective to
       generate slop and erode trust we have in videos, photos and even
       written testimonials. GenAI is also fantastic effective in creating
       a mass concentration of power in the hands of a few large AI firms.
       
       Haven't we already figured out that concentration of power is not a
       good idea? Next week, the Netherlands will hold general elections.
       Hundreds of thousands of voters turn to ChatGPT to ask for voting
       advice. That is what we want right? OpenAI providing voting advice
       for Dutch nationals.
       
       The University of Amsterdam did some research and found out that
       most voting advice is leaning towards PvdA/Groen-Links (left wing)
       and D66 (centrum) parties. Both parties I find sympathetic, but
       still this is not how a democracy should work. I have still
       headaches of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and influence of
       voters on Facebook. 
       
       Why do we keep stumbling twice on the same stone?
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