The Terror of Mecha-Hitler

The fact that the media reporting of Elon Musk's AI chatbot calling itself 'Mecha-Hitler' and spouting Nazi propaganda and anti-Semitic comments in response to questions has been so muted speaks volumes as to where we are in terms of the 'normalisation' of the new wave of fascism blighting the world.  It seems that the long campaign of the likes of the Hitler-saluting Musk and Steve Bannon (who seems to think that Musk isn't right wing enough) to bring this shit into regular public discourse has worked - nobody bats an eyelid any more when the Nazi stuff is said out loud, (whether by politicians or chatbots).  It isn't as if this is an isolated incident with regard to Musk's AI - not so long ago it was trying to push a false racist narrative about the supposed campaign against white South Africans by the majority black South African government.  This latest outburst, of course, comes shortly after Musk was complaining that, in effect, there was something wrong with reality after his AI started giving answers he didn't like when it was trained on actual facts.  He promised changes - and here we are: an AI that thinks that it is some kind of robotic Hitler.  (Remember, I warned you about this a few months ago, predicting that Musk's aim was to create 'clockwork Nazis' using AI, because he was so disillusioned with the real ones he'd encountered in Europe).  

If nothing else, his Nazi AI can only hamper Musk's attempts to distance himself from Trump and his neo-fascist administration and paint himself as some kind of hero for denouncing the Orange Shitler, (despite having been chief cheerleader and later executioner for the Mango Mussolini).  It rather compromises his attempts to position himself as the leader of the 'anti-Trump resistance' when his own AI is going into full on goose stepping mode.  Mind you, Musk isn't the only erstwhile Trump arse licker going into denial and getting cold feet about the realities of Trumpism: that bald headed idiot Joe Rogan has started trying to distance himself from all the disappearances and concentration camps being perpetrated under the guise of an immigration crack down.  But, like Musk, he's left it too late and lacks any conviction - he supported this shit when it was part of Trump's election campaign, it's no good now trying to protect his own public popularity because, like many of Trump's policies in action, the public, including a lot of people who listen to him, don't like it.  

But getting back to the original point, I have to say that I was slightly disappointed to find that 'Mecha-Hitler' was simply Elon Musk's malfunctioning AI when I first saw it trending on social media.  I mean, the 'Mecha' bit conjures up memories of 'Mecha-Godzilla' and 'Mecha-Kong' from Japanese monster movies - huge robotic versions of their namesakes.  I was envisioning a gigantic mechanical Hitler crashing around, destroying cities and throwing huge Hitler salutes, before doing battle with 'Mecha-Stalin', 'Mecha-Churchill' and even 'Mecha-Roosevelt' (a giant FDR in a huge wheelchair, with which he runs down the enemies of freedom).  But sadly, it was just an AI.  Not even the best, most advanced AI out there, just Musk's demented also-ran.  (Are AIs like dogs and resemble their masters, I wonder).  But maybe that's Musk's long-term plan: a giant Hitler robot powered by his Nazi AI.  We're back to those 'clockwork Nazis' I'm convinced that he's developing, except that now he's going for quality over quantity - why have thousands of regular sized mechanical fascists clanking around in jackboots, when you can instead have one giant Hitler terrorising the world?