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Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise pr

Great. Now I’m going to be haunted by a recurring dystopian vision of the future in which all content (even broadcast TV) is pumped out this way to maximise profits. Humans won’t use their brains for creativity anymore. Instead, new ideas will be seeded deep inside a neural network somewhere, and our reactions will be monitored and used as one constant feedback loop. Until we are ultimately just sat drooling and giggling 24/7 at some optimised computer generated content buffered by lucrative advertising.

rubidium 4y ago
That was my immediate reaction to seeing chatGPT. Any digital content, fully customized, can be created with minimal human input. The quality of the content is still crap, but that will improve with time. And the audience getting dumber to think it’s fine will speed up the process.
ricardobeat 4y ago
You just described YouTube & TikTok. We’re here already, except we did it by crowdsourcing instead of AI.
- dvngnt_ 4y ago
  both platforms are filled with extremely talented comedians, dancers, musicians, and artists
  - theclansman 4y ago
    But with way more untalented people just following trends!
    - naught0 4y ago
      Isn't television the same, then? Just with fewer creators and a much higher barrier to entry.
  - sekai 4y ago
    Wait till you find out how talented people are using AI, AI is but a tool, it's up to the user how to employ it.
lynx23 4y ago
Wait, a sizeable part of your dystopian prediction is already here... And yes, people will stop to think even more. TV was just the first step.
galacticaactual 4y ago
Hello, Neo.
narrator 4y ago
The movie "Her"[1] is already here with AI Chatbots. I was recently fooling around with open source 6B parameter AI chatbots. The model is 20GB. That's just for text and that's more text than I could read in my entire life. I could talk to the chatbot for my entire life and never get to the end of it. The amount of raw information that humans can I/O into their brains is very small compared to these chatbots. [1]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/
- mlrtime 4y ago
  This is already happening, tales of lonely people chatting with chatgpt for hours because they don't have anyone else to talk to. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/10p8yk3/how_pathetic_am_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/10p8yk3/how_patheti... This is the future for many future lonely people, some may not even realize it (AI).
- dd36 4y ago
  Wee input a lot more than text.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
  I saw "Her" on a plane near the end of last year. I had avoided seeing it because I thought it was a movie about AI and expected it to be trite. For anyone else who might be dismissing it for similar reasons: its not about AI, its about relationships, and it is really good.
  - hombre_fatal 4y ago
    Reminds of Arrival in that way: come in thinking it’s a movie about alien invasion, realize it’s a (rather provocative, mind-bending) love story.
  - sizzle 4y ago
    I’ve been avoiding it because of the actors but I’ll give it a second chance.
- 4y ago
pasquinelli 4y ago
here's what i think: imagine if this was good, like it generated stuff that felt like a real episode, like you couldn't tell the difference. how uninteresting. the little bit of entertainment value this has is in being so stupid. the entertainment value of an episode of _seinfeld_ is inseparable from the fact it was written by a human.
jasonjayr 4y ago
Max Headroom explored this idea too...
- aliqot 4y ago
  tiktok is literally zikzak corp with blipverts
mmcgaha 4y ago
I know that I am going to sound pathetic but I may actually like it. It makes me sad when the characters in long running shows get old or die in real life. I also get sad when shows end and the characters that I love just go away. Right now we have cartoons but I don't really connect with these characters. What I would love is an actual good series where the characters never grow old and the series never ends. Now this may not be something that an AI can produce in my lifetime but I am sure that AI generated content will cross the uncanny divide within the next 40 years or so.
meroes 4y ago
This is part a larger “fear” of mine. We never get to actual singularity because along the way AI is either good enough or we mislabel it to thinking we’ve reached the singularity when we haven’t. Or some other allure/consequence that isn’t immanently itself destructive (accidentally creating hostile Skynet is possible but outside this fear, this fear is more insidious). We think may we have the desire to reach AI singularity but I’m not convinced. We’re too selfish.

rubidium 4y ago

That was my immediate reaction to seeing chatGPT. Any digital content, fully customized, can be created with minimal human input. The quality of the content is still crap, but that will improve with time. And the audience getting dumber to think it’s fine will speed up the process.

ricardobeat 4y ago

You just described YouTube & TikTok. We’re here already, except we did it by crowdsourcing instead of AI.

dvngnt_ 4y ago
both platforms are filled with extremely talented comedians, dancers, musicians, and artists
- theclansman 4y ago
  But with way more untalented people just following trends!
  - naught0 4y ago
    Isn't television the same, then? Just with fewer creators and a much higher barrier to entry.
- sekai 4y ago
  Wait till you find out how talented people are using AI, AI is but a tool, it's up to the user how to employ it.

lynx23 4y ago

Wait, a sizeable part of your dystopian prediction is already here... And yes, people will stop to think even more. TV was just the first step.

galacticaactual 4y ago

Hello, Neo.

narrator 4y ago

The movie "Her"[1] is already here with AI Chatbots. I was recently fooling around with open source 6B parameter AI chatbots. The model is 20GB. That's just for text and that's more text than I could read in my entire life. I could talk to the chatbot for my entire life and never get to the end of it. The amount of raw information that humans can I/O into their brains is very small compared to these chatbots. [1]https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1798709/

mlrtime 4y ago
This is already happening, tales of lonely people chatting with chatgpt for hours because they don't have anyone else to talk to. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/10p8yk3/how_pathetic_am_i/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/10p8yk3/how_patheti... This is the future for many future lonely people, some may not even realize it (AI).
dd36 4y ago
Wee input a lot more than text.
AnIdiotOnTheNet 4y ago
I saw "Her" on a plane near the end of last year. I had avoided seeing it because I thought it was a movie about AI and expected it to be trite. For anyone else who might be dismissing it for similar reasons: its not about AI, its about relationships, and it is really good.
- hombre_fatal 4y ago
  Reminds of Arrival in that way: come in thinking it’s a movie about alien invasion, realize it’s a (rather provocative, mind-bending) love story.
- sizzle 4y ago
  I’ve been avoiding it because of the actors but I’ll give it a second chance.
4y ago

pasquinelli 4y ago

here's what i think: imagine if this was good, like it generated stuff that felt like a real episode, like you couldn't tell the difference. how uninteresting. the little bit of entertainment value this has is in being so stupid. the entertainment value of an episode of _seinfeld_ is inseparable from the fact it was written by a human.

jasonjayr 4y ago

Max Headroom explored this idea too...

aliqot 4y ago
tiktok is literally zikzak corp with blipverts

mmcgaha 4y ago

I know that I am going to sound pathetic but I may actually like it. It makes me sad when the characters in long running shows get old or die in real life. I also get sad when shows end and the characters that I love just go away. Right now we have cartoons but I don't really connect with these characters. What I would love is an actual good series where the characters never grow old and the series never ends. Now this may not be something that an AI can produce in my lifetime but I am sure that AI generated content will cross the uncanny divide within the next 40 years or so.

meroes 4y ago

This is part a larger “fear” of mine. We never get to actual singularity because along the way AI is either good enough or we mislabel it to thinking we’ve reached the singularity when we haven’t. Or some other allure/consequence that isn’t immanently itself destructive (accidentally creating hostile Skynet is possible but outside this fear, this fear is more insidious). We think may we have the desire to reach AI singularity but I’m not convinced. We’re too selfish.