When I read generated novels, I don’t even feel bad, or rather, as if I’m reading something meaningless and empty. When I look at AI-generated memes, I just don’t find it funny. When I listen to generated music I feel like it’s dead. When I watch AI generated videos I feel sick, this is clearly for some kind of consumers.
And now I don’t read or watch or listen to anything new at all. No, now I watch, listen and read old things and yes, I feel good sometimes I even cry understanding how I could not appreciate something so beautiful before.
Yes, I was once a consumer myself, but it always seemed to me that something was wrong, that everything was somehow not right, and when AI learned to create this fake art, I finally understood what exactly was wrong… There was no soul, there was only sterile garbage and now there is more and more of it. And AI makes it even worse. It is the worst invention of humanity at the moment, or one of the worst. Why is it the worst? Because such inventions always fall into unworthy hands, and I think it’s time for everyone to admit it.
Well, now to the main thing, are you also now watching, reading or listening to old things in which there is not a drop of AI and sometimes even tears come to your eyes? Or do you just feel alive?
Well, you think sensibly. But you know, a person, how to say it, is not worthy of possessing great power, he treats it too badly and only makes it worse. Look, it seems like we have such technologies, but we have become even more lonely and anxious than before. Of course, I’m not talking about everyone, but still… Yes, and I consider utopia a sweet lie, there will be no utopia, it is impossible.
There’s no closing Pandora’s box at this point, but honestly I don’t know if it even really matters
I think AI is a tiny fraction of the true problem. Slop is just a symptom of late stage capitalism. It always goes back to that.
COVID moved everything online, and billionaires and corporations have enshitified the walled gardens they’ve managed to lock people into. YouTube is full of slop because they were happy to take the short term ad money. Hollywood is full of slop because Disney bought every franchise with good IP, and no one wants to take a risk. AAA gaming is slop because Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft bought all the big studios and doesn’t want to take risks.
It’s all slop because integrity and pride in your work is the enemy of slop factories. You have few individuals creating to create because if you can’t monitise your work immediately, you can’t survive
Also, you have a huge wave of anti intellectualism. People don’t know how to critically examine media anymore - before AI, clickbait and short form videos of reddit posts over gameplay were already taking over. Disinfo and misinfo was everywhere, echo chambers and the algorithms were already doing far worse to us then AI
I think if we can fix society, AI won’t be a problem. AI isn’t bad, corporations - large amalgamations of people that humans don’t actually control - they’re the threat
AI is only bad because its powerful at a back time. I might be ok with not allowing it as a service… Maybe if you want AI for something, you use it through an expert with the understanding to set it up for you.
But regulation scares me, because right now lobbyists would write the whole thing
Well, I have nothing to say here, you are right, we still live in a world where the strongest survives… And that means that there is nothing good to expect from the future. The world has always been shit and always will be, because it is just a rotting, decaying and crumbling nonsense.