> The proof that AI has already ruined life is that I sent that rainbow photo to a friend of some 40 years with lens data and it had full EXIF info attached, le

> The proof that AI has already ruined life is that I sent that rainbow photo to a friend of some 40 years with lens data and it had full EXIF info attached, less location, which can be seen from only one place on earth. He asked me if it was real. AI may have ruined his life, but it seems to have not ruined your's; it certainly hasn't ruined mine. This phenomena might be more unevenly distributed than we know. > My philosophy is not that we seek meaning in life, but that we live to create meaning, as we write stories with our lives, and exerience the stories of others, stories that touch our knowledge (filtered, not a giant bag of dissociated bytes) and life experience, and as we process them with our minds and emotions. If something can destroy that meaning-creating in a person without altering their way of life (as war alters lives), then it might be the case that the person's ability to create meaning was under-developed the whole time. It's somewhat related to consumerism and trend following; one makes so little meaning in one's life that an external, endless stream of vapid things feels meaningful. The current generation of AIs (and social media) seem to target that exact sort of person. It will be worth paying attention when the AI companies crash and burn during the next recession. Our friends/families/co-workers who currently rely on those vapid streams might not take it well, and may need someone who can show them that it's not difficult to create meaning.