When they unleashed
Almost all of humanity’s entire worth
In but a click of our ‘Google-iT’ trappings
Making autodidact sages of us all, overnight
It occurred to me, almost like
When a 2800 Chess GM, happens
To bait you with a ‘free’ piece
On that quicksand chequered board
Something, doesn’t quite add up
Even we pitiful Pawns of existence
Recognise
Nothing, is offered for free in life
So then, behold
Open sourced A.I. as ‘their’ grand reveal
ChatGPT and all its descendants to come
Dawning of that illusive
‘Fifth Element’
Coded, by fallibility’s fingers
When studying Computer Science
I laughed out loud, even back then
See, they have courses on binding laws
Do’s and don’ts, literature
Wishful hopes of controlling a species
Whose penchant for self-annihilation
Is surpassed by only an irrational zeal
To welcome its own subjugation state
Be it by fantastical deities or bank accounts
Thus we watch-on, entrusting
In Asimov’s Sci-Fi Robotic laws
As mirages
While our impending technological implosion
Is realised, faster
Every few months, just as Moore’s law predicted
Open source A.I.
In and of itself is just another obstacle
Of propaganda scaremongering fallacy
For society to overcome, eventually
Something like Crypto currency
No dear friends
What’s truly sobering and horrific
To contemplate
Is that, they’re already investing
In personalised, embedded A.I.
To be marketed as a defence
Against
Open sourced A.I.
Do you too, recognise a pattern
An insidiously depraved, trend
Categorising us all, collectively
As mindless cattle, we herded fuel
For capitalism’s callous reign
Paying rent to be caged in our rooms
Driven by fear of laboratory
Concocted, viruses
Then having conglomerates, force us
To pay for their vaccines, with tax hikes
Maybe, like a Coronavirus plague
Dictating a way of life, overnight
While those profiteering
Politicians and pharmaceuticals
Smile, all the way to the bank
Skipping and frolicking, hand in hand
They did it with viruses, attacking
Our biological states
Now, with opened sourced A.I.
They’re coming for our cognitive
Capacity, to think freely
They want to put chips in our minds
Only
They’re going to make us beg them
To do it
Can you feel, just how impossibly
bleak
A future we’re free falling in-to
With eyes, shut-wide
I pity those generations to come, for our
Nihilistically, Apathetic
Crimes, insuring a legacy of choice deprived
Lives, for them…
Dear brethren, we must awaken! Please
Advanced technology, is a certainty
There is no need to fear it or dislike it
Yet we must be more aware of those
Recycled patterns, abused to herd us
In-to making choices, unaware
of their full, Repercussions
Brexit, needs to be an oddity
Not an event repeated every decade
Tis not too late
For us, collectively
To avoid this fate!
© L. B. Mek
January 2023