My personal experience with A.I


I’ve got a very scary one for all you guys.

When Satan moved out, I changed all the locks, that was about 12 years ago. I noticed a few months ago that the key that has always been on my keychain ever since was getting pretty worn, and I said to myself “I should get a new key made.“. But I rarely listen to such things. Well, like clockwork, I snapped off my key in the deadbolt in the front door. Fortunately, it was on the inside side, so I didn’t have to worry about security until I got it out.

When I was talking to the cute little brunette on the phone that night, I told her that I had broken my key off in the door, and I described it.

The next day, when I was scanning YouTube to waste a few minutes, there was a video that told you how to extract a key that’s broken off in the cylinder. It stated you could get a little spring, a little bit stronger than what might be in a ball point pen, and straighten it out and put a tiny hook on the end. Then you could slide it in because there’s enough room between the key and the walls of the cylinder, twist it a little, and yank it hard. The hook will catch on the notches in the key, and if it comes out even 1/8 of an inch, you can grab that and pull it out of the cylinder. By the way, it’s good advice, it’s exactly what I did and it worked like a charm. I recommended it to all you guys if you’re ever in the same situation.

Here’s the really really scary part. It was just a phone call. I did not search for a way to get the key out, I didn’t email anybody, I didn’t text anybody, etc. I just had a phone conversation with the cute little brunette.

I cannot believe it was a coincidence. I firmly believe AI was listening into my phone call, and that’s why that video popped up the next morning. When I thought about it some more, I was probably sitting in front of the TV when I had that conversation. Personally, I think it was the TV monitoring me in my own house, and it wasn’t a scan of my phone/the phone call.

I don’t even know what to say after this, big brother is watching. Very very scary. I’m thinking of going back to a rotary phone and videotapes.
 
maybe use aluminum tape? like for furnace work.

Yeah, that is a great way to find out how it behaves when you make it mad...
 
Afterthought, I always knew the cable box had a motion sensor because when I walked in the room, it would trigger whatever was playing to go into sleep mode, or would trigger the signal that asked “are you still there?“ etc. But I didn’t realize till the lock thing it was actually listening in.

BTW, I have “Dish” (satellite dish) for my cable service, actually satellite service I guess, but it is attached to the Internet, and of course now I have the Roku TVs that are attached to the Internet
 
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You need to keep it on the down low you are on to them...
 
Our devices are always listening. Have been for a long time. There’s no other logical explanation for mentioning something around an electronic device and then seeing ads for what you spoke about or articles or videos or…

The really scary one is when you’ve just had a particular thought, spoke nothing aloud, typed nothing on a screen, and there’s an ad/article/video on what thought ran through your mind. That’s about enough to make you want to invest in an industrial supply of tin foil…
 
You need to keep it on the down low you are on to them...

Of course it pisses me off, but then inside there’s a part of me that hopes they run with it.

Everybody will be buying rangers and turning them into lil rigs and trains and limousines and who knows what.

I’m buying more rustoleum stock as we speak…
 
I have the sudden urge to watch “maximum overdrive “ after reading this thread and the ac/dc song “who made who” is playing in my mind


Looks like it is free on Hoopla (if you have a local library card you almost certainly have a hoopla account now a days)... as well as a couple other platforms:
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I have been trying out Copilot, Grok, Gemini and the ai in the Brave browser. The first thing I do is ask questions that I know the answer to. One thing I ask is what the Motorcraft oil filter is used for my Ranger, which the manual said FL-1A. Copilot will often get it wrong. Grok and Gemini usually gets it right.

I tried Brave today and it says the FL-1A will not work. Usually, when the others get something wrong and I correct it, they agree. Not Brave. We almost had an argument. I pointed out that Rockauto lists that filter and it replied Rockauto is wrong. I said that Amazon lists that filter. Amazon is also wrong. Same with Autozone. Then I told it that is the filter that the owners manual lists. The owners manual is wrong I was told. Then I noticed that most of it's sources are from Reddit. So I asked why it considered Reddit more reliable than Ford's own documentation. Then it decided to say there might be a TSB about the filter, but otherwise one should trust documentation over what is said online. If there is a TSB, I cannot find it.

With the other Ai's, one gets the feeling that the customer is always right, which I don't like. So, I didn't mind the pushback from Brave, but that was ridiculous.

Otherwise, when searching things, I am finding the AI to be a useful tool, but something to verify if it is important.
 
As the very first message to an AI, I use a preamble I have crafted that tells it to verify everything, fabricate nothing, if in doubt research and show references. With ChatGPT 4 it was terrible at being quite agreeable and getting things wrong. With 5 it is better, but it still needs the preamble. I think that is why 5 was released so quickly - there was a lot of kids that killed themselves that got media attention and they were talking to chagpt 4. Management wanted to quickly move on from 4 and bury it.
 

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