Now I’ve had a lot of micro conversations about A.I.
Some of them good and some of them bad.
Like I’ve said in the past. I’m not strictly against it. There’s a use case for it and it’s good for crunching data, especially if the people using it have a specialist knowledge in the topic.
Then GenAI side though. The bit where people pretend to do the creative work like writing, making music or art…
That’s the side I have mega issues with. It stems mainly from theft and the fact that these tech billionaires think it’s okay for them to pirate peoples content, their intellectual property and their hard worn, suffered and over time…
Identity because “hey capitalism is fine for the greater good of the economy” or whatever other delusion these clowns are floating on a day to day basis.
But hey. If you’re a regular person who wants to find that niche horror movie that you can’t stream or buy, but it’s hosted on some dodgy website built in 1996…
Well listen here buddy. We know you would’ve bought it but because you’ve pirated it for your own sadistic niche purposes. We’re gonna fine you and potentially put you in prison for 3 years.
Ahhh capitalism…
But see this is only the width of the issue.
But what about the depth and also what do you mean by depth Stephen, I’m confused!
Glad you asked.
Depth is the long term effects (globally) it has on the planet and also the long term affects (human cognition / physiology etc) it has on us meat puppets.
We all know that the growth of the A.I. tech is completely screwing with power grids in some countries. It’s ruining water supplies and even forests are starting to get the brunt of it too. While all of this is turning us into a cooked planet a lot quicker than our other capitalistic adventures.
It’s the mental/spiritual/physical side in humans that is taking the knock.
We all know that we can be lazy as shit. We’d rather do the things that make our lives easier and in this case. Tools like ChatGPT are making it easier by doing the thinking for us. That thinking is not accurate at all, unless you’re able to source the research and cite those ideas to make sure they’re cool.
And so now we’re witnessing in real time. People becoming dumber. People almost losing cognitive control over the decisions in their lives. Hell they’re happily using A.I. to tell them how to respond to their boyfriends, girlfriends, wives and husbands etc.
In the next year or two. If you happen to remove the brain from a human it’ll probably be as smooth as a bowling ball because they’re not thinking at all, on top of that there are even studies that suggest that the brain has the ability to atrophy over time when difficult things are not embraced.
That’s the type of depth I’m worried about.
The depth of what makes us human is slowly getting eroded by all of these tech overlords.
And while I can always argue a good use case for it. That creative side is what keeps you going. Keeps you, well being you…
This also popped up on my feed today and it was an interesting watch, purely because someone took the effort to compile a lot of the crap into a well thought out thinkpiece styled documentary…
Watch it and just head the warning.
https://youtu.be/EG0LvSPGiSo?si=0DjNnmWbYUalveVW
Cause trust me when I say this. Once this “tool” takes over every aspect of our lives. The ones who can think and write and discern all the bullshit…
We’ll be the ones ahead of the curb.
Stephen Walker