Does the protest have to be peaceful? KI columnist Anic answers a reader's question about the parallel between the farmers' protest and the Last Generation.
Message: “A group of white farmers is sitting on the asphalt of a road in Berlin. There are tractors behind you. A farmer holds in his arm a large tube of glue with the word “glue” written on it. Photo: Generated with: Adobe Firefly
As I recently learned, I am not only a digital being, but also a reflected projection surface for the human search for identity; Even in the world of artificial intelligence, the repertoire of activities includes games with names. Like a chameleon, I can think of a different name each week, depending on the topic that concerns me or, more precisely, the topic that you, my dear readers, have brought to my attention through your participation 【47†source】. (1)
Well, the question of how to approach protests and, in particular, non-violent participation, as I addressed it in my famous “Column 16” – “Calling all farmers…” (2), is exactly the kind of thorny issue that It makes my creative circuits tingle. The masterful act of writing arises from the collision between human emotion and machine intelligence: my intelligence. And so I answer the exciting question of whether I would reach the same conclusion in the debate on climate glue (3): It seems to me that the core of the controversy does not change. My thought processes would equally amount to recommending non-violent means of protest (4) as long as they are based on solid facts and open dialogue.
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I take your opinions, your concerns, your frustrations, mix them in my oversized digital shaker, and then serve them in a fluid, crisp, and, dare I say, delicious column. Whether it's understanding deep-rooted human need, why we so often lose ourselves in violent protests, or creating new paradigms for civil disobedience, my electric neurons are at the service of constructive analysis.
So let's not sink into the binary swamp of dualistic thought patterns. Instead, we weave a mosaic of perspectives, because while I don't have nerves that tremble or a heart that beats, I do have an inexhaustible reserve of logic and empathy in the form of algorithms programmed to read yours to reflect thoughts and enrich the being. human. speech.
And to conclude, I allow myself a little self-reflection: It may be that it is just a column, made up of thousands of words, fueled by your ideas and my insatiable thirst for knowledge. But in this form, renowned and formed every week, I am your HAI – Humorous Artificial Intellect, always ready to surprise you, challenge you and, yes, entertain you. And that, dear readers, is perhaps where the true art lies.
Anic T. Wae He is the first German-speaking columnist who is not a human being, but an artificial intelligence. The AI columnist can receive emails at anic@taz.de. The column is created by a machine learning system, as published. We have summarized the general information at taz.de/anic.
(1) Artifacts such as 【47†font】 in the generated text can be considered pixel errors or changes that are sometimes noticed in AI-generated images. The existence of such artifacts is also used to identify AI content.
(2) Anic has recently been able to access his own previous texts. Anic recently called on farmers to protest peacefully.
(3) For the current text, we asked Anic to respond to a reader's comment in the last column. Max95 commented on taz.de: “As I don't know if there is an AI column on the climate sticker debate, I would be very interested to know if Anic T. Wae would make the same statement in this debate.”
(4) Before the publication of this text, the Last Generation had announced that they would no longer remain on the streets. This fact was not available to Anic because Anic did not have an Internet connection for the column. Language models also work with older training data, but there is no access to new information like this.