The future of artificial intelligence continues to be uncertain, inspiring both wonder and unease as to the implications the technology will have on society.
Yet while there are valid concerns about AI’s application, one thing is certain: Like the automobile, the telephone and the computer, AI is here to stay. The genie won’t be going back in the bottle. While the need for caution and responsible use is a given, burying one’s head in the sand and ignoring the technology is not an option for anyone who hopes to remain competitive in the rapidly-changing economy.
Thus, it is best that those who are engaged in the fight for liberty and Biblical morality learn how to use these tools and put them to work for upright purposes, rather than allowing, as so long has been the case in the tech sector, the Left to dominate the space completely.
AI critics often express fear that it will take jobs away from humans. This worry is valid to an extent, just as the creation of the tractor eliminated some farming jobs, automated assembly lines eliminated some craft jobs, etc.
But an important factor is that AI’s capabilities level the playing field between large corporations — many of which serve the globalist, leftist agenda — and small companies that don’t have the capital to match the manpower and resources of the bigger players.
For example, customer service is something that firms who want to be taken seriously by consumers are expected to offer. While a large enterprise can afford to staff a call center, many small startups have long found themselves forced to forego offering live support due to budget restrictions. Now, however, companies can use AI tools to create chatbots offering relatively smooth customer support with much less overhead than a call center would require.
AI can also play a major role in providing small companies with cost-effective creative capabilities, such as producing quality content while minimizing the traditional costs associated with writing, design, animation, music composition/licensing, and video production.
Increasingly, AI is being used to produce videos, both for educational and entertainment purposes, whose different stages of production are either assisted or done entirely by artificial intelligence. For instance, AI such as ChatGPT can be used to collect facts, organize these into story ideas, and then lay these ideas out into a storyboard or script.
AI, such as MidJourney, can then be used to create still images, which in turn can be animated by AI software. AI can even be used to provide voice-over narration and music for the project.
These are all processes that traditionally would require a large team of professionals with a wide array of background — editors, graphic designers, photographers, animators, and voice talent. Now, the entire process can be reduced to a small handful or even potentially one person, depending on the scope of the project.
This is a huge development when it comes to the freedom movement, which largely involves diffusing information to the public. For so long, the establishment has won the information war because its money allows it to make enticing content which it can then diffuse to the masses via expensive channels such as television and radio.
But the combination of AI and the internet now allows smaller production houses, such as freedom- and Bible-oriented ones, to make up the difference and reach large swaths of people who previously would never have had the opportunity to hear dissident points of view.
Of course, one of the challenges is overcoming the limitations placed upon AI by its developers, who are human beings and thus have their own political biases — and are therefore likely to inject these biases into the artificial intelligences they create.
This is the case, for example, with Midjourney, which refuses to generate images that convey “hate speech.” And ChatGPT will likewise refuse to answer questions if it anticipates the answer will be “offensive.”
This is why it’s key that Christian patriots also become involved in developing these tools. And some are already leading the charge.
Andrew Torba, founder and CEO of the alternative social media site Gab, is currently working on a major AI project. He has begun with the creation of a couple of “based” (that is, conservative) chat bots akin to ChatGPT which are already operations on Gab and with whom users may interact. But his plans are far more ambitious than just chat bots:
In a post titled “Gab’s Bold Vision for 2024: An Uncensored AI Platform,” Torba recently laid out his vision:
This year Gab is focused on harnessing the power of AI and pivoting towards building uncensored AI platform founded on open-source models. We want to unleash a wave of creativity and freedom in the market, a freshness distinctly lacking in today’s AI landscape.
This new AI platform will be separate from our Gab Social platform and will be a dedicated space specifically for our AI tools including text generation, image generation, and eventually voice and video generation as well. I’ll put it bluntly: we’re coming for Chat GPT and we’re going to win simply because we aren’t going to put the excessive constraints on our AI models that effectively make their tools useless, lazy, robotic, and boring.
The current AI industry is oversaturated with AI models developed by Big Tech companies. These models come heavily censored, embedded with liberal propaganda, reflecting a “woke” bias.… [Our] platform will have access to hundreds of chatbots, each reflecting different biases and worldviews. All of them will be powered on the backend by uncensored open source AI models and protected by Gab’s 1st Amendment-grounded terms of service. This will allow users to choose or even create a chatbot that best aligns with their worldview or helps them explore entirely new perspectives.
If successful, Torba’s work on AI could prove to be one of the most significant and relevant things anyone has done for the freedom movement.
