lumijanis

Something made me a bit mad today. I saw an ad where someone talked about how "Chat GPT works best with detailed prompts!!" and proceeded to say "but I hate typing them" and I sat there thinking to myself: Do people really think this is a normal line of thought? Then he proceeded to pitch his lame voice-to-text AI prompt writer justifying it by "I think best when I'm walking so I can use it to think of better prompts!!!". My brother in christ, if you can think better when you are walking, why do you even need the fucking thing to think for you in the first place.

Generative AI is the rotten apple that entices limited minds. People are using AI to fucking talk. They are using gen AI to come up with conversational topics with their boss. If you think this is normal then I can't imagine what it is like inside your mind. How can you be so dependent on a fucking glorified calculator. If all text gen AI died tomorrow a non-insignificant amount of people would simply just lose their jobs.

I'm not even that mad. It's just sad and disappointing, a bit dystopic too. I can stand gen AI when it's text generation because it's a niche that has never been fulfilled up until now, tho I absolutely draw the line at image and video generation and I don't think those should exist at all. You can't really give a single use case for those that is not scummy and don't cross any moral boundaries. Plus, I think the average user has absolutely, literally zero justifiable uses for image and video generation, that is unless you consider feeding your dead grandma photos to the singularity for it to animate her loving memory like a corpse puppet a justifiable use case.

I said I can stand text based gen AI, not that I like it entirely. Sure it's okay to use it but it has become many people's crutches and that's a bit depressing to see. When you don't think for yourself and don't speak for yourself, how much of you is you and how much is the mathematical average of the collective conciousness regarding that topic? As for ambiental damage, I think that newer models have pretty much the same impact as a few google searches, so it's not THAT bad, but that only applies to text based gen AI. I'm sure the models will have lesser impact on the future but only until they reach the monetary threshold where it stops being profitable to come up with greener solutions.

AI is also nearing it's critical mass. It can't really grow that much beyond what it already does and there's no need for it to do so. Sure, videos will get more real and by consequence living on the internet will become more dangerous by the second, but what else can AI do that it can't now? It can already scrape your whole digital footprint and generate digital carbon copy of you.

Transhumanists are some the most delusional people on the planet. You may think this ideology is crazy and no one would support it but rich tech guys like the amazon daddy, big zuck and the starship manchild really think we can transcend humanity and become one with them machines. I think that's really, really delusional but they seem to think moving money to reach that goal will actually lead somewhere. Anyways, that's beside the point.

I wish for a future where AI generations are regulated, feeding other people's image to it is a severe crime and all things you post are encripted against scraper bots that try to steal your info. That being the pipe dream but I don't think we are close to it right now.

Dead internet theory is dumb, it's not even a theory, it's just redditors doomposting. I hate when people mention it because it just makes zero sense in a fundamental level. Creativity will trully never die, but it will be harder to come by as it is engulfed by the vast majority of cheap content. You have to dig ever deeper to find people who are genuinely set on creating amazing things and that's sad, but be glad these people still are and will always be around.

I tend to stay very far from politics and taking a stance on these kind of topics but I trust everyone that read this is a grown up. Feel free to disagree with what was said but I'm not extending this debate further because this is mostly a vent post and not what I tend to use my journal for.

don't even get me started on AI music.