Now I’d like to start off by saying apart from a surface level understand of computers, technology and Artificial intelligence I am not qualified to speak on this subject at all but I feel like most AI focussed subs (especially r/singularity) have a very pessimistic and dystopian prediction on the future of this technology and I like to throw some ideas out in the other direction because I’m interested to see if anyone else has some polarising views.
Now I would describe myself as a creative person, so that’s where most of my thoughts stem from, for example I can imagine a future where AI generated media makes it possible for anyone to make anything, which will of course be terrible at first. I can definitely imagine someone shitposting an entire movie or something, but once the intial novelty wearing off, I don’t see this lasting long . I don’t know about you guys but I used to laugh at memes on Facebook in like 2014, now my brain filters out garbage on that level almost automatically. Is the formula for “effort” a multiplier of the “bare minimum”? What I do see is it evening the playing field for humanity. Just imagine all the people out there that will be able to create their magnum opus that otherwise would of never been able to have a chance. Who is out there in this mass of billions of people that have never had their chance to tell their story?
Now someone might say that AI will be able to replicate anything and do it BETTER. With the dawn of agi and eventually asi they will have our dopamine receptors triggering on an algorithmic level. There’s this dystopian theme of a world where your social media feed will be individually tailored, or the art on your living room wall was painted by midjourney v16… I’m probably wrong but is it possible that if things that were once thought to be complex and hard become easy and can be done at the click of a button, then wouldn’t this push the boundaries of art as a concept? Wouldn’t people just do 14 things at once, aided by AI, like make an entire feature length movie in their bedroom, featuring licensed deepfakes of famous actors, with an ost composed via neura link?? I’m probably getting ahead of myself but according to Reddit skynet will be going live in 2 months when chat gpt 16 is released so who knows lol
Not to say I’m not worried about AI entirely, but then again I’m also self aware that people were terrified of the first car!
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