Jianwei Xun, the assumed Hong Kong philosopher whose book “Hypnocracy” claims that Elon Musk and President Donald Trump use Utopian promises and empty language, never really existed, at least not physically.
Instead, the acclaimed author was a “cooperation” creation between Andrea Colamedics, an Italian publisher and two AI tools -Claude van Anthropic and Chatgpt from OpenAi.
“I wanted to write a book that would help people to better understand the new ways in which power manifests itself,” Colamedics said Decrypt.
But it was only after an investigation report by L’Espresso that the Xun website has been updated to recognize the experiment, assessed Snapshots of Wayback Machine by Decrypt Show.
Yet the book was critical.
L’Espresso report that L ‘ -MENA French daily, had detailed detailed how President Emmanuel Macron had ‘appreciated the writings of Xun’. Earlier in February an extensive round table at the World Ai Cannes Festival discussed Xun’s ideas.
Éditions Gallimard, a leading French publisher, has committed itself to a new translation of the Italian original, after the First edition in French of Philosophie Magazine. A Spanish translation of editorial Rosamerón is planned for release on April 20.
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Xun was “an exercise in Ontological Engineering,” explained colamedics in a post-evalation interview of Le Grand Continent.
While this experiment with AI looked new, critics point to The book can be in trouble.
The European Union AI ActApproved in March 2024, takes into account the non-identified content of a serious violation-a required critics claim that the experiment of colamedics is assumed.
In previous versions From his bio, Xun was described as a “cultural analyst and philosopher born in Hong Kong” who studied at “Dublin University”.
That was not true.
According to an anonymous source of the Philosophy department of the University College of Dublin, there is no person named “Jianwei Xun” in their database or that of other universities -based universities.
“The fact that the author had the chinese order ‘last name name’ was an immediate red flag,” said Laura Ruggieri, a researcher established in Hong Kong, said DecryptExplain how she already saw inconsistencies in February.
Ruggieri previously taught semiotics – the study of symbols and signs – on Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She asked her colleagues about Xun. Nobody knew who that was.
“None of them has ever met Xun or heard his name,” said Ruggieri. “If colamedics had used his real name and admitted that AI had written the book, no one would have bought it.”
Respond to those allegations DecryptColamedics claimed that these were deliberate instructions “they had left for those who were willing to interrogate and investigate”, claiming that the revelation was “predetermined”.
“We have actually done everything possible to make Xun’s non-existence clear to anyone with even minimal curious eyes,” said Colamedics.
Colamedics insist that AI did not write the book. Instead, Claude and Chatgpt ‘served as discussion partners’.
In the words of Xun
The book describes itself as a “trip to the broken mirror of modern reality” and discusses how Musk and Trump have constructed an alternative reality by obsessive repetition.
It was written “for those who suspect that the world they see is just a shadow of something much more complexers,” says his Amazon Blurb.
Xun’s thoughts concentrate on ‘hypnocracy’, in which a regime is described that inspires control through ‘algorithmic modulation’ of collective consciousness rather than censorship.
In English: fake news.
Xun claims that Trump’s speeches and social media messages create conditions for uncertainty.
Trump “empties language: his words, endlessly repeated, are empty meaners, without meaning, yet accused of hypnotic power,” Xun wrote.
Xun claims that musk promises “intended not to materialize”, by “flooding our imagination” with companies such as space colonization and neural interfaces.
“Together they modulate desires, rewrite expectations, colonize the unconscious,” wrote the AI philosopher.
People spoke for Musk and Trump did not respond immediately Decrypts Request for comments.
Published by Sebastian Sinclair
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