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> Imagine a world where everything is “AI generated”, everything including books, songs, music, movies, etc. One can imagine the irony in humans consuming and e
by 317070 3y ago
> Imagine a world where everything is “AI generated”, everything including books, songs, music, movies, etc. One can imagine the irony in humans consuming and enjoying such content - the very same humans who have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and even artificial intelligence itself!
When seen from the collective of humanity, I understand this vision and the emotion that comes out of it.
But it's a stretch to see humanity collectively here. Only a small elite have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and AI. Most of humanity is used to either endulge or suffer the products of the creators. And the creators of these things are not one homogeneous group either.
Yeah, we will be entertained by AI. Just like the food we're eating is highly processed, the air we're breathing is made by machines, and the world we see is carefully curated, segmented and engineered. And a large majority will not care.
"Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece."
"Can you?" [0]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAHbm7G2R0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAHbm7G2R0
- jdiff 3y ago> Only a small elite have the potential to create poetry, prose, songs, software and AI. This isn't true at all. Anyone can sing, anyone can doodle, anyone can create. Just because the mass-media media is dominated by a small group of the commercially successful does not limit creativity to commercial success.
- 317070 3y agoGiven that anyone can still doodle, sing and create, even in the vicinity of generative AI, makes me think the author was thinking of mass media when he wrote the piece.