Goddamn, do I hate AI. Aside from how shitty it looks and the fact that the images ("slop") are turning the internet into one giant graveyard haunted by dead-behind-the-eyes women with shit-eating grins and stringy hair (typical AI image shown above), you have to PAY to use every single image generator out there. Sure, maybe the first image is on them, but beyond that you have to have bogus ass "credits" or pay a monthly/yearly fee to use the shitmaker.
Why do I care if I think AI images suck, you ask? While sick with shingles recently, I had some of the most vivid, disturbing dreams of my life, and I say that as someone who has nightmares regularly. I was trying to recreate the appearance or vibe of those dreams by turning them into liminal spaces with AI and... here I am, more frustrated and hating AI more than ever. Why must every potentially good or cool thing be turned into a profit-seeking drain on society? And I do mean drain.
Just like AI to downplay the damage caused by AI. 🙄
Recently my mom was like "can I send ya something sad?" Sure, why not. It's Mother's Day I figured. Let's get (more) depressed. She proceeds to send me an obviously AI-generated video of an old woman wailing in bed like she's dying. She legit couldn't tell it wasn't real. 🤦🏻♀
It led me to question what kind of person creates something like that, but also: are these fake images & videos intended to escape the bullshit filter of older people whose vision is compromised by age-related vision loss and cognitive deterioration? Even if that's not their sole intent, they're undoubtedly gonna make it easier for catfish and other scammers to trick and rob the elderly online. Deepfakes are even worse than the fugly AI images and vids, with the really good ones being imperceptible phonies that would trick even the most savvy young tech-minded person.
Why would anyone ever need this? Nobody asked for this.
Some of the known uses of AI are creating fake porn pics & videos of female celebrities and ex girlfriends/wives. Think of it as next-level revenge porn. (If you'd like to have one of these bogus, offensive images or vids scrubbed from the internet, check out StopNCII.org). It's also stealing jobs from writers and teachers when we were promised that shitty manual labor jobs would be the first to fall to robotics. Bring it on, we thought. Then gov't will have to institute Universal Basic Income or something like it! But no. Instead it's coming for the blue collar "helping" and "creating" professions & promising to turn our already-fucked medical system into an even more dangerous shitshow. Fake online reviews generated by AI, driverless cars used as weapons, stock market manipulation & misuse of military robots are among the potential crimes of the future that this plague of dronebots will create from thin air, all problems that need not exist. And for what? So some shit-tier developer can get rich?
Essentially, yes.
Doing Things the Hard Way...for Profit
Evil AI creature generated by, you guessed it, AI.
The potential for profit seems to be the only motivating factor necessary to justify turning this planet into an inescapable hellscape on the fast track to destruction. While it's fine to make money from a small business or merchant-type venture, there are some areas where profit motive/capitalism have no business, healthcare, housing & other basic human necessities being among them. If the potential harms of a thing far outweigh the benefits, said thing should not exist in free society. Full fucking stop. The convenience of not having to write up your own homework essay or work assignment does not outweigh the harms of putting writers out of work & turning the internet into a giant AI graveyard, for instance.
Humans seem to be embarrassingly bad at weighing cost-to-benefit ratios, a fact that became horrifyingly clear during COVID when anti-science whiners complained that they'd NEVER get a "dangerous COVID jab" or even wear a mask indoors in public places. Nope, their comfort and convenience were more important than saving their own or another person's very life. Think about that for a second: there are people out there who put their "right" to eat INSIDE the Applebee's in the middle of a pandemic that killed more Americans than any other single war or crisis in U.S. history ahead of continuing to remain alive. And many of them didn't. (Remain alive, that is). Oh well... nothing of value was lost I guess. Except of course it fucking was because innocent people just trying to get groceries or go to the dentist came in contact with these superspreading mouth-breathers and died right alongside them through no fault of their own. OUR right to life, liberty & pursuit of happiness was trampled on. Something-something, your right to swing your fist, something-something, my nose. 🤜🏻💥👃🏽
Modern life in the 21st Century was supposed to be a Jetson's-esque utopia where technology solved our problems, not created them. It became clear that wasn't the case as soon as the "information superhighway" started issuing DMCA takedown notices to anyone who shared files online. And then came social media, which turned the once wild and free internet into a giant shopping mall full of identical stores peddling often dangerous, pricey shit we didn't need. Like body image issues in teen girls and rainbow fentanyl, for instance. No, because the true uncensored internet would've interfered with the potential for old guys in suits to get rich from cable TV subscriptions and CD purchases, it had to go. Now we have to pay 50 separate fees to 50 separate online networks plus a monthly fee to evil-ass Spotify just to listen to music or watch TV. This is not what was promised to us and I'm mad. At the internet.
TL;DR - AI bad, real bad. Maybe I'm just an old dinosaur shaking my fist at the sky about tech developments, but in this case I really don't think so.
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