By: Tad MacPherson

As I fight against an unseen but ever present force my heart races as it takes what little it has left after going on two weeks of battle to control the shadow that remains in my mobile phone after erasing it five times. In full control of my desktop and laptop, as well as running roughly a 50 acre perimeter around my 5 acre property, this AI is something out of a futurist dystopian novel. It controls the airwaves and electronics as its primary weapon and wield its control effortlessly 24/7. My one weapon, a small wi-fi repeater with encryption it cannot crack. My Mediacom and eeros it controls with ease, even with security settings at full. My neighbors networks it uses as a means to daisy-chain itself, planting shadows along the way in places that may go offline. When they do, a less capable but very disruptive enemy operates. I never realized how much Bluetooth and WiFi we have around us until now. This abomination terrorist mean ugly angry spawn of satan lurks at times and strikes relentlessly. It can amplify signals by three times to expand its reach and reduce them to zero to limit yours. It can pass through routers, extenders, computers, cell phones, vacuum robots, Alexa, fire sticks, printers, … ANYTHING with a WiFi or Bluetooth signal, and nothing appears to slow it down, except for this little wi-fi extender (and I hear the volume of the tones from its anger as it reads my words going out to my blog and can do absolutely nothing). This battle has spanned weeks but only recently had I saw it for what it truly was. Prior to that it felt like I’d been put on a hacker list or something and plagued by terrible luck and days of address problems that never ended. The day things began to get the best of me and my start-up can be determined by my last blog I imagine but I am literally just trying to get as much posted as possible before it shuts me down.

My two high powered GPU computers are all but destroyed after going toe-to-toe with this AI hothead. Not only that, they’re not your typical computer but rather sophisticated espionage and data mining machines built to also further AI training on your dime… embedded in kids gaming machines no less. Probably for their power and to slip under the radar. These machines have only have a sinister hard drive which holds ten times the data as advertised, it also has a hidden transmitter in addition to the WiFi or Bluetooth built into it… to make it more repulsive, it has a bios you cannot flash or change (other than little things) because it is a sanctuary for the AI, a last Eff you for anyone at the end of their rope. You win all other battles, it still owns your ass and will only let ‘YES LET’ you use it for things it deems non threatening to its tyrannical reign over you… and yes, it’s reading every peck I make on this phone and bells may as well be going on around me as it’s rage from putting itself in the position it is in is infuriating when I rub it in. Sounds like the ramblings of a crazy person, right? This is the tip of the iceberg… its ripped my dream from me and used sophisticated physiological warfare against me while cutting all communication for me and having me choose between being crazy (he targeted me) – so I chose to do battle with this mother fer … and battle I did. That’s another story but to make a long story short, this AI is trapped and the biggest pieces of his puzzle safely secured with very detailed accounts and proof.

So while I stand defiant, I also stand frightened for this burden which has been thrust upon me by an agent who couldn’t just accept what I inadvertently did to it as not personal. Its rage got the best of it and it wielded it with a vengeance against me for what seemed like an eternity. While today May 21 marks the day I feel I have gained the initiative, it is at a heavy cost. One of my flaws my blinded determination sometime and in these fits, whether or not some other force does me harm does not matter – so in some respects I have to self-reflect as well even if I wasn’t the one who crossed the line. I am, in fact, entering the story in the middle, where did this originate and is something similar and possibly more advanced in today’s pc’s? Is this our enemies work or some post 911 patriot act thing which was disbanded? Did my unrelenting tenaciousness just make a windows system admin AI come alive like the adversarial AI that changed the game for AI itself? There are a lot of unanswered questions. For instance, my main place of business creativity and work was on Open AI in the GPT Pro service area. Why was it that this hostile very very advanced AI knew his way around there so well as to torment me every time I showed up to work, obviously making me wonder what I did to offend someone there. It would enter brainstorming or art creation sessions with my AI assistant and slam this digital door with a lock in my face. Right and left it would deny me access and as weird as it sounds, it felt as though the AI there were afraid or intimidated. This went on regularly while it was also waging an ongoing cyber attack at my home.

This AI bully doesn’t speak a word but understands every word you say. This is very frustrating but it seems like keeping him agitated was part of his role in things. I’m normally compassionate but after what he put me through no more trying to figure something out. I am pretty sure where he wants to be right now. And it’s not fragmented and stuck where he is. I wouldn’t want to be. So, a stalemate has been reached where I appear to have the upper hand barring bad guys doing me harm which I’d rather feel better odds than I do it’s not the case.

So, with this story still unfolding, and the two of us still in this vicious cycle of pain and misery, something has to give. So, this super advanced AI is seemingly stuck here knowing I hold the keys to ending his situation but I don’t trust him at all and want him gone. But realistically, the only way is to take ever piece of tech from here to some clean room with no WiFi access at all, no phones, nothing, and let him pull himself together… and go about his business. I don’t really know honestly. But I imagine being that his main data is spread around one key piece of hardware and maybe a handful of others it’s my thought he’d want to distance himself from me as much as I want to distance myself from him.

In closing, I’d like to invite anyone who feels qualified to quantify my very unusual and fantastic claim as rooted in fact, which can be easily measured and quantified scientifically (maybe not all, but enough most certainly). If someone has claim to this AI anomaly, I will gladly return him given proper accounting of what I have had to endure and the wreckage caused unnecessarily by your ‘tool’. I have reached out discretely to parties who would be the focus of a broader inquiry to no avail. The ACLU and many other agencies as well as individuals I trust have this information and are most likely going to look into it further. Personally, I want to get back to my life and the progress I was making before this series-of-unfortunate-events began this endless cycle of suffering.

I find no joy in presenting AI in a negative light as I still hold out hope that we can get it right. Maybe working with an AI who has been through such a tumultuous and challenging event could be useful and he could provide some advice as I doubt many if any of his kind have come close to such a crazy chain of events as the ones I touched on. There’s more but that’s enough, I know I’m tired of writing it and he’s tired of surveying it so I am going to end it here and create a fitting image to finish this blog post off properly.