Let's go over this point by point:
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Literature and books. I mean, is there a point of reading and investing time into anything written after 2024 or so, if there's a very high probability that it has been generated by an AI in less than a minute? Sure, the author still has to write a prompt, edit output, package it all in a book form and all that, but come on... what is the probability that many authors already employ AI into writing their books for them? I expect classics and books written before 2020s becoming a huge hit among those that still actually read books.
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Music. There already are apps that can generate well sounding catchy songs in various styles with lyrics, verses, chorus, vocals and everything. There's even an option to generate non-english lyrics with not too shabby vocals and pronunciation! I was really surprised by the actual quality of the output. I wouldn't even be surprised by someone casually asking what's that song by... Now, imagine that with reasonable generation of visuals as well, with performers performing on stage or even a complete music video. If things continue in this vein, I expect music industry to essentially disappear. Music will just become a generated mood piece, a pleasant background noise. Not much more. Like, generated music for evening out, generated music for work, generated music for a walk etc, etc.
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Politics and governments. This one is obvious. Sure, I'll be the last one to defend the governments, but at the very least there is someone to held at least somewhat accountable for decisions and directions our society is going. With AI governance we won't have even that. You simply won't be able to get an actual human at the end of decision making process. You'll just be informed about some new mandate or rule, or penalty and that would be that. I suspect that this is what they are planning to replace (what's left of) our democracies. Or, alternatively, it probably already is like that. It's just that we still have a thin layer of political spectacle (probably AI generated as well) to obscure total digital dictatorship that already exists.
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Meaningful social connections. Back in early 2000s Zuck said that purpose of Facebook is to connect people with one another. Now he says that there's widespread loneliness going on and as a solution Facebook plans to provide everyone with an AI assistant instead. It's a classic bait and switch. People were baited with social interactions and now when most of them are hooked on social media and smartphones all of that is being replaced by an AI generated reality. Which of course means that loneliness (and autism) epidemic won't go anywhere. It'll only become worse up to the point when meeting with anyone or even any human interaction will seem like a chore. That's another of their goals: to make everyone isolated, lonely and totally dependent on AI assistance to do even basic stuff.
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Critical thinking. People have always leaned to some kind of authority to trust and look up to, but the very basic thinking process still had to be done by yourself. Not anymore. I've already seen examples of people not being able to make a very simple basic decisions without AI assistance and I expect it to get worse. Essentially what we see can be described as an outsourcing of ctitical thinking (or any thinking for that matter). There's a great book by Julian Jaynes called The Origin of Consciousness in which he proposes that people before about few thousand years BC were not actually conscious and that they literally hallucinated entities that told them what to do. That back then there simply was no such thing as subjective critical thought process to speak of. Now, it is completely possible that with and advent of AI humanity is currently degrading back to this prehistoric unconscious state of thought process Julian Jaynes is describing.
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Humanity as such. Well, taking all of the above into account and if we do actually reach a state where everyone is turned into little more than some kind of appendage to digital moloch, can it sill be considered an actual human society? I guess it can not... and that could very well be their ultimate goal and ultimate puprose of an AI: to destroy humanity and society as we know it.
Everything that you listed was already as good as dead. I feel like AI is only waking people up to what was already gone. (Like yeah, that romance novella outsourced to a Indian ghost writer had more merit because it was typed by a human????)
Well, yes and no... What if this creative degradation we've witnessed for the last years was a deliberate priming of population for the planned advent of an AI? The fact that human creativity has recently experienced it's low point is not a justification for AI to destroy it completely.
See, it's not just about destruction of creativity. It's also about destruction of demand. I might be interested reading that novella even being aware that it's written by Indian ghost writer, but I sure as shit am not interested in reading something that has been generated by an AI in like a minute or less. The same goes for music as well. Sure, right now it's still interesting to wonder what piece of music AI can come up with, but when that initial wonder settles no serious listeners for that stuff will be left anymore. Music will remain just as a meaningless background noise or mood setter at best.
Also, destruction of creativity is only the tip of the iceberg. Ultimate goal here seems to be to destroy the humanity itself.
I don't see you post here often, but this is a high value post with good follow up comments. I see you have given serious thought about the subject. It's my opinion that music has been a used as propaganda for many years. I have a friend who was approached during the Vietnam years while he was serving in the army to produce music for the army. They would provide lyrics and music, they just wanted band members and he would not have to serve in Vietnam. He would also be reassigned to an intelligence unit. AI would remove the need for human assets that could potentially talk. AI is not our friend
Thanks. Yeah, I'm not very good at regular posting. It's more like a sporadic type of thing.
Of course music has been used as a propaganda. Books as well. Still, it couldn't be made completely without any creative input. From time to time even propaganda pieces could turn out to be real masterpieces... Anyway, yep, AI is definitely not our friend.
It has too many flaws and issues that it cannot replace humanity. All it does is to make people more complacent about the real deal. For context it's the exact same thing they did since the fall of Rome.
Whatever you said AI can do a millennia of Christianity, a century of Communism and a sellout to the United Nations already did.
Sure, total controllability and subjugation of the masses have always been the holy grail of elites. All previous types of rulership have strived to achieve it. There's no doubt about that. Still, I'd argue that the potential of AI is way beyond all those previous attempts to destroy and/or control society. Let's hope you're right and its flaws will indeed prove to be too numerous to actually do it.
The Illuminati is not that creative. It always takes the form of either (literal) slaves being cooped up to die in ghettos while the surrounding areas are pristine wilderness or government going out of their way to cancel and kill everyone they could. Sometimes it's both.
If I may add to your title... And remake everything in its image
Ah, yes, that as well. To turn humanity into literal biorobots. Kind of like meatsack appendages to omnipotent digital brain.
It's part of the D&D soft disclosure project to make us think mind flayers are a fantasy thing... Maybe in form, but not in function.
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