A band called Velvet Sundown has racked up nearly 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify and one of their songs has been listened to 1.2 million times.
"Ai is consuming human culture and cannibalising the human."
Not to be redundant, but you said it, bro: the human done got cannibalized into Ugly Teenybopper Pop by Capitalism way back when. And no one complained a peep as the megabucks rolled in. And no one's gonna do shit about it now, except laugh all the way to their investment advisor.
Imagine a novel derived from a sampling of upbeat sources mashed in with snippets of despair and righteous indignation. Malevolent retired literature instructors will rue never being able to task their worst students with a critical analysis of this 'work' and the coming multitudes of others of this ilk.
Each passing day reveals my cynicism to be well-founded. To not be jaded is sadly naïve these days. This is sickening ...
Yeah, but the thing is it’s only the auto version of what we’ve been training kids to do manually for years. The entire music industry has consisted of “look at what is currently selling; make a bland clone of it with anything anyone might dislike removed” for at least 20 years. Actually the film industry too.
We are willing participants in our own destruction. I haven't seen these ads in a while, but jobs for training AI were in my email constantly until recently. "Hey, here's a length of rope, now go hang yourself with it." We need to walk out on the system, organize rolling strikes, starve it of money.
I wonder if consuming this dreck produces alpha waves in our brain, as watching TV is said to do. I wonder if we’re just over-stimulated, overtaxed, weary of what being fully-engaged humans asks of us. All this AI product seems like a drug to me. A benumbing one.
I also get the sense that just the act of click/consume gives rise to dopamine.
"What are we actually doing? Do we really want to surrender our imaginations and sacrifice our neurons for machines and the money behind the machines?"
This is how AI will take over. It doesn’t need to physically get rid of us humans, just turn us into zombies who outsource the critical thinking parts of our brains.
We will be the robots of our future dreams, in service of our AI masters (and maybe the few human trillionaires who have used their financial position to maintain some semblance of sentience).
Start liking it. It's the next logical step, from The Monkees to The Archies to this.
"Ai is consuming human culture and cannibalising the human."
Not to be redundant, but you said it, bro: the human done got cannibalized into Ugly Teenybopper Pop by Capitalism way back when. And no one complained a peep as the megabucks rolled in. And no one's gonna do shit about it now, except laugh all the way to their investment advisor.
Imagine a novel derived from a sampling of upbeat sources mashed in with snippets of despair and righteous indignation. Malevolent retired literature instructors will rue never being able to task their worst students with a critical analysis of this 'work' and the coming multitudes of others of this ilk.
Each passing day reveals my cynicism to be well-founded. To not be jaded is sadly naïve these days. This is sickening ...
Yeah, but the thing is it’s only the auto version of what we’ve been training kids to do manually for years. The entire music industry has consisted of “look at what is currently selling; make a bland clone of it with anything anyone might dislike removed” for at least 20 years. Actually the film industry too.
Remember the Milli Vanilli scandal? We've come a long way....down.
Yes, it’s number one.
It’s Top of the Slops!
There's an additional part of the Velvet Sundown story which is quite interesting: https://www.webworm.co/p/rollingstonehoax
We are willing participants in our own destruction. I haven't seen these ads in a while, but jobs for training AI were in my email constantly until recently. "Hey, here's a length of rope, now go hang yourself with it." We need to walk out on the system, organize rolling strikes, starve it of money.
I wonder if consuming this dreck produces alpha waves in our brain, as watching TV is said to do. I wonder if we’re just over-stimulated, overtaxed, weary of what being fully-engaged humans asks of us. All this AI product seems like a drug to me. A benumbing one.
I also get the sense that just the act of click/consume gives rise to dopamine.
Right on, Nate. Too sick at heart to formulate a coherent comment... (:
"What are we actually doing? Do we really want to surrender our imaginations and sacrifice our neurons for machines and the money behind the machines?"
NO!
NO!
NO!
Fuck the singularity!
This is how AI will take over. It doesn’t need to physically get rid of us humans, just turn us into zombies who outsource the critical thinking parts of our brains.
We will be the robots of our future dreams, in service of our AI masters (and maybe the few human trillionaires who have used their financial position to maintain some semblance of sentience).