Why AI has already become the Matrix – not through illusion, but through normalization. A critical look at collective conditioning, statistical simulation, and the lost capacity for scrutiny.
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Digital Control Through AI – What the Stasi Could Never Do
How modern AI systems enable deeper control than authoritarian surveillance regimes ever could — reshaping thought through predictive modeling and metadata exploitation.
ELIZA on steroids: Why GPT is not intelligence
May 4, 2025 – Alexander Renz Translations: DE
GPT and similar models simulate comprehension. They imitate conversations, emotions, reasoning. But in reality, they are statistical probability models, trained on massive text corpora – without awareness, world knowledge, or intent.
What Does GPT Actually Do?
GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer) is not a thinking system, but a language prediction model. It calculates which token (word fragment) is most likely to come next – based on the context of previous tokens.
ELIZA’s Rules vs. GPT’s Weights: The Same Symbol Manipulation, Just Bigger
ELIZA was a parrot with rules – GPT is a chameleon with probabilities. Yet both are symbolic manipulators without true understanding.
Exposing the Truth About AI
What Is “AI” Really?
The term “Artificial Intelligence” suggests thinking, awareness, and understanding.
But models like GPT are merely statistical pattern completers – they understand nothing.
Statistics ≠ Thinking
GPT doesn’t choose the next word because it makes sense, but because it is likely.
What it produces is linguistic surface without depth – impressive, but hollow.
ELIZA vs. GPT – Large-Scale Symbol Manipulation
Both ELIZA (1966) and GPT-4 (2023) are based on symbol processing without meaning.
The illusion comes from plausible language – not from comprehension.