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Is this really different from what we've always dealt with? We have ghost stories, drawings of monsters, fiction books, staged photos, etc. The history of ficti

Is this really different from what we've always dealt with? We have ghost stories, drawings of monsters, fiction books, staged photos, etc. The history of fiction goes back as far as non-fiction.

pavel_lishin 3y ago
Yes, but it used to take time to generate and spread. Now, you can write a script that'll automate the entire process and generate more garbage in 3 hours than the entire online world could in 2002.
- Nevermark 3y ago
  It is true and really quite extraordinary. As an industry and artifact, AI is rapidly filling the gap between what our brains “measure” (novel, obnoxious, sexy, …) vs. intended outcomes (learning, threat mitigation, healthy mates, …) Culture leveraged that mismatch. But that gap has now been colonized by a new species class: the uber adaptive, fast generation, artificially intelligent attentionvore. The farming of people has just begun. The next Facebook is coming. :( EDIT: Also, you don’t actually have to write that script now…
- bugglebeetle 3y ago
  It’s the information equivalent of turning the internet into superfund sites.
aaomidi 3y ago
The sheer scale of how fast AI can put out content is terrifying. Think about all the work humanity has thought, written out, drawn, etc. We can probably create an order of magnitude more than the entire history of humans within a few days/weeks. This is truly revolutionary. This doesn’t mean what happened in the past wasn’t. Those had profound impacts on human life, again due to the scale of their impact. But keep in mind those technologies being introduced was very painful for the people at the immediate time, and then slowly got easier and easier. We are the same people that AI is going to be extremely painful on.
- kiba 3y ago
  The analogy of the past doesn't mean that the same process will happen. The industrial revolution after all was unprecedented in the history of human civilizations until it happened. Nobody had a roadmap on how it will all play out.

Is this really different from what we've always dealt with? We have ghost stories, drawings of monsters, fiction books, staged photos, etc. The history of fiction goes back as far as non-fiction.

pavel_lishin 3y ago

Yes, but it used to take time to generate and spread. Now, you can write a script that'll automate the entire process and generate more garbage in 3 hours than the entire online world could in 2002.

Nevermark 3y ago
It is true and really quite extraordinary. As an industry and artifact, AI is rapidly filling the gap between what our brains “measure” (novel, obnoxious, sexy, …) vs. intended outcomes (learning, threat mitigation, healthy mates, …) Culture leveraged that mismatch. But that gap has now been colonized by a new species class: the uber adaptive, fast generation, artificially intelligent attentionvore. The farming of people has just begun. The next Facebook is coming. :( EDIT: Also, you don’t actually have to write that script now…
bugglebeetle 3y ago
It’s the information equivalent of turning the internet into superfund sites.

aaomidi 3y ago

The sheer scale of how fast AI can put out content is terrifying. Think about all the work humanity has thought, written out, drawn, etc. We can probably create an order of magnitude more than the entire history of humans within a few days/weeks. This is truly revolutionary. This doesn’t mean what happened in the past wasn’t. Those had profound impacts on human life, again due to the scale of their impact. But keep in mind those technologies being introduced was very painful for the people at the immediate time, and then slowly got easier and easier. We are the same people that AI is going to be extremely painful on.

kiba 3y ago
The analogy of the past doesn't mean that the same process will happen. The industrial revolution after all was unprecedented in the history of human civilizations until it happened. Nobody had a roadmap on how it will all play out.