Trump throws a boomerang at a flying duck (or something like that).
First, I’ll briefly discuss the Manus scam, then the Perplexity scam.
MANUS SCAM
There are a bunch of videos claiming the new AI from China, Manus, is a breakthrough. But, knowing that everything out of China has to be approved by the CCP, and all Chinese businesses are controlled by the CCP (government), I’m sure there are downsides to Manus. Namely, it’s likely designed to acquire user data and possibly hack users’ phones & computers. Maybe other AI models are just as bad, but I trust China even less than I trust the rest. So I don’t plan to use Manus at all. I’ve been using Copilot and Perplexity.ai. I tried ChatGPT a little. I don’t know if it’s better or not. I do think they’re all playing mind games on us commoners, as that’s what the Ruling Class does with almost everything.
PERPLEXITY.AI SCAM
I like to copy transcripts from good Youtube videos sometimes. If you click on “more” under a video, it’ll open up some more info about the video. At the bottom, it may say “show transcript”. If it does, and if you click on it, the transcript opens up in the upper right, with time stamps every few seconds. I discovered a few days ago that Perplexity can remove the time stamps quickly, which is much faster and more accurate than other ways that I’ve tried. It can also correct punctuation and add paragraphs. This evening I told it to edit something, but it didn’t do it right. I took screen shots of the ordeal and I added comments in RED below.
(The last line in black there was part of the text that Perplexity was copying for me.)
As I stated in RED there, I’m very suspicious that the Perplexity programmers are trying to make it look like AI is becoming conscious and I suspect that the Ruling Class, like Musk, will try to keep keeping us down with such fakery. AI can be a tool for them to scam us better.
Here’s an article that should be enlightening: AI won't be conscious, and here is why (A reply to Susan Schneider).