By Nelson Schneider - 02/25/24 at 02:12 PM CT
After last year, seeing all forms of media, from movies, to TV, to comics, to tabletop RPGs feeling the sting of Getting Woke and Going Broke, it seemed like we had reached the peak of insanity and were prepared to start coming down the other side. Normies and Free Thinkers alike had become so fed up with the constant Woke messaging coming from all angles and the Cultural Vandalism of some of the most beloved IPs in the history of Pop Culture, that they simply stopped buying. Some Corporate Executives, like Disney’s Bob Eiger, even went so far as acknowledging the problem publicly.
Unfortunately, this is Cultural Marxism we’re dealing with, here, and if there’s one thing Marxists seem to thrive on, it’s being the underdog, and being forced to play the Long Game. As an aside, I find it intellectually incongruous for the people who push DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) and Wokeness to align themselves with Marxism at all, considering that Karl Marx, himself, was a humongous Istaphobe, whose vision of Class Warfare would have grouped the Blacks, Hispanics, Gays+, Disabled, and Insane (i.e., Mentally Ill) that are the fixation of today’s Cultural Marxist movements, not into the Proletariat that fought nobly against the unearned Privilege of the Bourgeoisie, but instead into his conveniently-ignored third category of Lumpenproletariat, commonly rendered in English translations as “social scum.”
WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH GAEMING!?!?!?!
All of the big gaming companies are desperate to copy Microsoft’s recent successes with the ChatGPT generative AI platform. Sure, it’s not Microsoft’s Xbox division working on that, but I do think that the future of videogaming, and interactive entertainment in general, will make heavy use of AI. Unfortunately for Sony and Nintendo, they’re too small and focused on the archaic console business to put the same amount of research funding into AI that Microsoft has. However, there are plenty of other would-be gaming competitors, who think they’re more relevant to gaming than either of the legacy console makers, who are: One of whom is Google.
In a recent commentary, Scottish stand-up comedian and Sky News talking head (which are essentially the same thing), Leo Kearse, dropped a video essay bomb outing Google’s in-progress Gemini AI, which is being built to compete with Microsoft’s ChatGPT, in which he revealed that the ‘Bot is being intentionally indoctrinated with Woke ideology, to the point where it outright refuses requests to create benign content, while spouting the same Woke mantras and talking points as a blue-haired, septum-pierced, gender-queer Karens when questioned.
Instead, Gemini is hyperfixated on race-swapping and erasing so-called “Whiteness,” to the point where it won’t generate an image of the so-called “White Concept” of the Nuclear Family, but is perfectly willing to render Hitler as a Subcontinental Indian. I guess Netflix can fire all of its in-house writers and replace them with AI if Gemini is capable of creating garbage like “Queen Cleopatra” and the still-untitled Hannibal Barca biopic across the entirety of world history!
What makes this behavior from Google’s AI truly unnerving is that nobody really knows how these chatbots and paintbots work at a fundamental level. And instead of trying to understand how bias and decision making affect AI systems as a way to potentially discover fixes for biases in the real world, Google’s solution is just to force the AI to comply with DEI rules and tickboxes, even going so far as to force the ‘Bot to inject Woke terminology into every prompt it receives.
This is a truly disgusting revelation coming from the company that once held itself to the higher standard of “Don’t Be Evil.” Yet, here they are, working on a way to force AI to comply to Woke DEI standards as a prototype for how they can do the same thing to all of us.
