Brandon Sanderson says you are the art. The art is the change that happens in a human in the creative process. AI just can't experience that. It simply arrives, where we must travel.
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His talk on the subject is great, I really enjoyed it and I agree with is take in that it’s the journey, not the destination.
It sometimes feels like psyop.
That aspect of ai isn't even the main threat that comes from ai.
The real threat is ai used for datamining, surveillance, profiling, and algorithms which psychologically match your profile. Then they can actually control your life path through ads and algorithms. It's already happening but this is like nail in the coffin of it becoming completely intertwined with the base foundation of our lives.
Also government/police/war usage.
It's like people talking about consumer grade ai and usage are psyop to drown out the real issues.
Reminds me Voltare, "Those Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities".
I think they want to be able to create any narrative the want that furthers their goals and feed it to you to accept without question as they already burnt the books to hide the truths contained inside.
I really think we are there already. This is just going to make it almost automated instead of through the old analog methods.
The real threat is ai ...
Your list combined with OP's grievances is still non-exhaustive. Add environmental and societal impact. Nature and people suffer physically from it. People can't get jobs. People who have created IP get pushed out by government-supported IP theft.
I'm not willing to entertain this at all. It's not a psy-op for me, just a gigantic grift & hype of mostly one nation and its corpos.
Sure, the likes of Thiel and Altman would like you to think it's a more complex thing, even to the point of admitting that it's controversial. But it's still just a grift, hype and bubble.
Add environmental and societal impact. Nature and people suffer physically from it. People can’t get jobs. People who have created IP get pushed out by government-supported IP theft.
I'm pretty sure this fits under
On the other hand you have assholes using said artwork machine as an excuse to fire everyone, ruin the environment even faster, and overthrow political systems.
zealots insisting that anything that is made by a person is made of 100% divine treasure that they did not give a shit about 2 years ago.
Yeah, and I'm starting to think Obama was a good president. It turns out that significantly lowering the bar resets your perspective.
On the other hand, you have zealots insisting that anything that is made by a person is made of 100% divine treasure that they did not give a shit about 2 years ago. Profound but technically meaningless. There was no reason to give a shit about it "2 years ago", because the dignity of the effort that goes into creating something out of yourself was not yet threatened to become obscured, forgotten, debased, disregarded.
OP coming out of Chernobyl with his 4 hands.
I'm a fiddler on a roof.
I think you just summed up everything wrong in one post. Not sure how to fix it at this point. The idealist would say to just not use AI and get rid of everything connected to it. That may even be right. But that isn't going to happen at a scale that matters, and that wouldn't undo the damage. Maybe there isn't anything other than just pushing back wherever we can and wait for things to break (they will, it's inevitable).