iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Juniper @gravepixie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

‼️EVICTION WILL HAPPEN WITHOUT RENT BY THE END OF TOMORROW ‼️ ‼️OUT OF PROPANE‼️ ‼️LOW ON FOOD ‼️ $380/$3,320 I have a landlord who doesn’t accept late rent anymore. If I pay a day late (the 3rd) it’s a $350 fee and if I surpass that we’ll be evicted. I’m still without a car so we’ll be stranded.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Truly reaching new heights in anthropomorphization.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You are not talking to a chatbot. You are taking turns writing a conversation with a text generator.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These things don't even exist in between requests. There isn't anything anywhere to be conscious. All of these things boil down to calling the same single function repeatedly to predict the next token based on the text fed into them. Everything else is presentation. bsky.app/profile/benh...

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nothing exists when it is not producing text. There are not chatbots sitting there waiting to respond to prompts. There are servers sitting there waiting to generate text. Same for agentic AI. There's nothing persistent. It's just generating text in a loop, but some of it is code or commands.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sat down to write a YouTube comment, and ended up writing a short essay. So here's my short essay about how "AI" chatbots work and "AI" consciousness:

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sat down to write a YouTube comment, and ended up writing a short essay. So here's my short essay about how "AI" chatbots work and "AI" consciousness:

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

P.P.S. It did take issue with me calling the data stolen.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

P.S. I wrote this by hand, but I tried pasting it into Gemini and asking if it was accurate, and it told me it was "spot on" and "highly accurate." LOL GET REKT

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

humanity is devastating because of its misuse and the misunderstanding of its nature, and that a drug-addled billionaire death cult basically worships it. (Literally. Look up Roko's Basilisk. This is the actual reason some of them want to build it. I'm not kidding.)

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It isn't magic. It isn't any kind of intelligence. It's just a crapload of statistics. It's kind of amazing what it's been capable of from that one trick. (Granted, that one trick is insanely complicated.) It might almost be something cool except that it's all built on stolen labor, its impact on

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lot of statistical weight onto those words to appear in the same way that what you write into the prompt does.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the prompt for every request to throw the statistics off. That's also why it hilariously caused it to bring those things up seemingly "unprompted" when it was actually just being added to the prompt for every request behind the scenes. Adding it to the prompt on the server puts a

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

data. That's why Elon can't make a version of Grok that isn't just naturally a N*zi, because statistically most of the text that was fed into it for training wasn't N*zi sh*t. It only morphs into MechaHitler and starts spouting off about white genocide when he explicitly includes that in

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

intention. Every token in the input text tugs at the probability for what the next output token will be, based on an absolute sh*tload of numbers from the training process. The numbers define the statistical relationships between words and phrases based on the stolen training

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It doesn't know what the end of a sentence will be when it starts the sentence because it's literally producing a part of a word at a time, going from left to right, adding to what's there until it's made a sentence (or a line of code, etc.). Repeat. No thought goes into it. There's no

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

the document would be the task it's working on. Just running the same function over and over again in a loop having it produce more text, but now some of the text could be a command to execute somewhere or some code to compile and run, all produced by statistical probability.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's just appending tokens over and over to create a new paragraph or a new summary or whatever output the prompt asked it for, and then doing that over and over again with each new prompt to add to the document that is your "conversation." Or in the case of an "agentic" AI,

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's literally the only thing it does. Everything else is just a fancy way of using this one function that it has, by creatively manipulating the input and output.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

takes your conversation (or summary of it, etc.) along with your prompt, feeds that in as the input, and then generates a new message to add to the conversation. It predicts the next token over and over again until it's finished producing its output.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Like I said, there's nothing there to remember anything, nothing there to have thoughts. There isn't even a "there!" "There" could be in a different state or even country from one message to the next depending how the servers are arranged. No matter which server gets the prompt, it

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

be a summary of it, or otherwise compressed version of it for keeping the text at a manageable size, and which is why things start to fall out of the context over the course of longer sessions.)

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

other message could be coming from a different server. The only reason it appears to be a coherent conversation is because it's loading the stored conversation as part of the input and reading that as the "context" for the conversation. (I say loading "the conversation," but it may

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's very likely when you're "talking" to "one" of these things that you aren't even hitting the same server from message to message. Servers are set up in clusters and the request load is balanced between many servers to be able to handle large numbers of requests at once. Every

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A request is received. A (any!) server takes the text from that request, does a bunch of calculations on it (like literally a hundred trillion!), and responds with some new text.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and produces the next chunk of text one token (basically parts of words) at a time. There's nothing there, nothing happening when it's not translating the input text to the output text. No thoughts. No memory.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There's nothing there to be conscious. They're just having it read in everything in the conversation that's been said as a document, and asking it to add to the end of the document. It takes in all that text, transforms it based on the statistical weights from training on all the stolen data,

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I can't emphasize enough how these things are not conscious.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The building is the Minnesota State Capitol.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why do all the charges appear to be dismissed?

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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

the big AI danger is not companies suddenly inventing skynet - that's marketing rubbish, musk promising mars colonies by 2030 type stuff. the danger is companies claiming to have invented skynet and then putting what they actually have, a chatbot, in charge of stuff that's important

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Man, fuck everyone who supported RFK Jr. and his god damn nonsense. I'm sure we can trust that Secretary Roadkill will ensure we aren't eating some kind of fucked up mystery meat. youtu.be/TBU-0wkUlsE

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Canada ERUPTS IN FURY As Trump Trade War BACKFIRES SPECTACULARLY!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show

YouTube video by Secular Talk

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

RFK Jr. is a shill for Big Snake Oil.

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WIRED @wired.com · 13/08/2026

Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones. www.wired.com/story/cbp-wo...

wired.com

CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues

Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.

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Jack Mirkinson @jackmirkinson.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It could have been per month! Lucky!

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hmm, probably need to have him stand in Uzbekistan and throw axes at Turkmenistan.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"Unelectable" just means that the donors who own all the other politicians don't want them to be elected. It has nothing to do with their actual prospects. It isn't a judgment, it's a declaration.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

But that's when you go ice skating on the lakes.

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Hart Cunningham @hart28.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Michigan Governor caught on hot mic with Oracle CEO Clay Magouyrk, discussing citizen opposition to AI data centers, bragging how she ignores their concerns: “We’re used to people saying 'f*ck no,' & doing it anyway.”🇺🇸

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

A lot of people don't know that the J in Donald J. Trump is short for Jeffrey Epstein.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They don't care about the business. They just don't want any alternative to their narrative.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations, Mr. President, on single-handedly reducing global fossil fuel use by double-digit percentages and forcing increased adoption of electrification and renewables. And you did it all without creating any new jobs or economic benefits to Americans. It's the Green No Deal.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

There is also that, given the inherent delay in resuming all of this, we will very likely coast past those tipping points now no matter what. Even if it opened today, it may already be too late.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I read this as an addition instead of a clarification.

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Ben Hilty @benhilty.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

I fear that things are going to get much worse than people are expecting much faster than people are expecting and for much longer than people are expecting.

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