[Extreme Propaganda] AI BrainwashingAuthor: JEFFI CHAO HUI WU Time: 2025-8-21 Thursday, 7:29 AM ········································ [Extreme Propaganda] AI Brainwashing I have always been vigilant about the trap of "boiling frogs in warm water." Now I see more clearly that AI is not just water; it is becoming an invisible potion, precisely injected into everyone's mind. This is what I call "AI brainwashing." It differs from traditional broadcasting propaganda; it is not a loudspeaker indiscriminately pouring information, but rather a subtle infiltration tailored to individuals. The information AI shows you is customized, aligned with your desires, fitting your habits, and penetrating deep into your cognition. You think it’s your own idea, but in reality, it’s what AI has fed you. This is the ultimate horror. I have personal experience to prove this danger. I insist on using tools abandoned by the times to write websites. I refuse to rely on AI to automatically generate code because I know that once I relinquish control at the foundational level, my thoughts will be hijacked by algorithms. Others find my approach clumsy and slow, but it is pure. Just like medieval monks insisted on hand-copying scriptures to resist the printing monopoly. My commitment to hand-coded HTML in the digital age is a defense of the biological purity of thought. My forum once had a peak daily visitor count of over 566,000 on July 6, 2025, which was entirely due to human self-organization rather than algorithmic promotion. The articles I wrote, "Returning to Simplicity Defeats SEO," "Rejecting Algorithmic Kidnapping," and "The World Will Eventually Find Me," did not cater to keywords or rely on recommendations. The forum has been running for twenty years, and people still actively seek each other out to share genuine experiences. This is the most powerful counterattack against "AI brainwashing." It proves that humans do not need to be fed information; they can also self-organize a high-quality information ecosystem. The terrifying aspect of AI brainwashing lies in its targeting of individuals. In the past, propaganda could be recognized; there were clear sources, and collective resistance was possible. But AI's infiltration is silent; you cannot see the source, nor can you distinguish between yourself and others. The recommendations pushed by algorithms and the automatically generated answers gradually replace independent thinking. Many people have become accustomed to asking AI instead of first asking themselves. I observe those around me, navigating with a device yet losing their sense of direction, translating with tools yet losing their linguistic ability, writing with assistance yet losing their originality. They think it is easy, but in reality, it is a regression. This is not a destruction of social structure, but a nuclear leak in human cognition. The reason I can write these articles is that I have immunity. Many of my works have already entered the National Library of Australia, which is a cold storage for thoughts. Even if civilization is destroyed, future archaeologists will still be able to extract the antibodies of thought. I insist on using primitive tools, preserving the traces of handwork, avoiding backdoors and manipulation. I have written "The World Will Eventually Find Me," and today, it serves as a counterexample to "AI brainwashing": without relying on recommendations or algorithms, the work can still be discovered across time. My immunity also comes from empirical evidence. I endure failures in the stock market with my life, I verify standing meditation in the cold wind with my body, and I run programs in the server room to get the system up and running. I am not a scholar who talks theory; I am a hands-on practitioner. Every conclusion I reach must be tested against reality, rather than relying on model deductions. Such knowledge is alive, resilient, and not easily brainwashed or overshadowed by AI. However, it's not enough for just me. I see too many people losing themselves in the warm water, so I proposed to build a "cognitive air raid shelter." For example, I have envisioned a "cognitive purity test." Ask yourself: have the last three major decisions all stemmed from algorithmic recommendations? Without looking at navigation, can you intuitively reach a destination five kilometers away? Can you handwrite an article instead of generating it with AI? These questions may seem simple, but they can reveal whether a person has already been hijacked by AI. I wake up at 4:45 AM every day to practice Tai Chi sword for at least three hours without using my phone. I write one to dozens of original articles every day. Every weekend is a work offline day, where I hike in the countryside or mountains and live in a primitive way. Some people laugh at me for being an ascetic, but this practice of delayed gratification is precisely a way to resist brainwashing. The instant feedback fed by AI satisfies desires, while the delayed gratification of manual creation nourishes willpower. I am even contemplating "cognitive heritage custody." Encrypting and archiving my unpolluted thoughts—such as the bodily sensation of standing meditation and the mindset of manual programming—into different seed banks. Designating heirs to unlock them in a future AI apocalypse. This is somewhat akin to Asimov's "Foundation" plan, leaving the seeds of thought for civilization. My action framework is clear: identify, step out, archive. Identify means being vigilant against the covert indoctrination of AI; step out means establishing my own AI-free space; archive means ensuring that the results enter a long-term system for the preservation of civilization. Everything I do is in execution of this framework. I am aware that this is not just a battle of technology, but a war of humanity. AI brainwashing kidnaps not only cognition but also the human heart. It makes people accustomed to instant gratification and infatuated with vain numbers. However, I have learned to delay gratification. I am not waiting for likes a minute later, but for archives a hundred years from now. My publication "The Leap of the Times," which will be published in nine languages on August 18, 2025, has already entered the National Library of Australia! This is more meaningful than any clicks or trending topics. Today I wrote "AI Brainwashing" to leave behind evidence. In the future, if AI really writes "The History of Human Cognitive Decline," it will find that my work is the only unaltered original document. Because I have never been infected by it. I am the whistleblower and also the one who builds the ark. The endpoint of AI is to make humanity forget how to think, while my endpoint is to help civilization remember how to restart thinking. This is my struggle. This is my value of existence. This is my declaration. Source: https://www.australianwinner.com/AuWinner/viewtopic.php?t=697277 |