Brain Dump | Morning Musings
Are you an AI?
We might be close to the so-called dead internet theory. While it is still considered a conspiracy theory, safe to say that seeing how AI can now develop their own writing style, summarize things for us, even suggesting a lot of things more personalized than search engine would, have their own personality & quirks, they could very well be a human, a basic boring human.
With AI becoming more advanced and accepted, it's getting a lot more challenging for organic users to thrive. For example, just look at X, formerly twitter with its bots problem. X used to be a place to look for the freshest information on the ground. From earthquake, war, you name it. They have it fresher than any other place would. It used to work as the content on twitter would then get recycled to other social media and was given extra commentary. These days, tiktok seemingly replaced that forefront with news there being recycled to X, twitter and youtube.
The eerie thing is that not all of them are human generated. Even these days on Hive, there are people writing content with AI tools. If the person is truly malicious, it won't be that difficult to create a whole persona AI generated with its background story and stuff. In the mainstream media, this has happened, there's already an influencer goes by the name Miquela. She's not even a human and she has 2.5M followers!
While the dead internet theory has circulated a while ago, it has been increasingly popular and talked about. This prospect magazine article for example mentioned that real people and our needs have become irrelevant to the modern internet business. It further criticized that today, people are desperate to earn something with low quality or fake content to drive engagement as well as generating money from it. I have to agree that today the internet has become a little soulless that since internet economy booms, money is what being emphasized all around the space.
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technology/internet/67864/dead-internet-theory-ai
With all that said, there's also a recent phenomenon that resurface again and that is the lonely epidemic. We are not alone per se, we are surrounded by people and AI, for better or worse. We have companion but that isn't enough because lonely isn't solvable simply by having a companion.
These all aren't new but just becoming increasingly real and heightened. For those who haven't watched the movie "Her"(2013) by Adam Spiegel, I would suggest it right now because we might as well be heading to that direction where hyperintelligent AI are built and able to form a relationship with us because we feel increasingly lonely.
It's really not just loneliness but with AI becoming more accepted and used, there are also sinister implication of it. One that is common is celebrity impersonation. It is to the point that can be quite indistinguishable if they said certain things or promoting a certain brand while it was an AI generated video. Shockingly, from what I found people blindly believing those video based on the comment left with only few remain skeptical if that was AI generated. What if you made a certain decision based on this false AI news/ endorsement or what not? Can you truly distinguish human and AI?
That's all for this morning. I came across this topic a while back because I started seeing a lot more celebrities being impersonated by AI and people believing in that. At the same time, there are way too many tools to use than the common ChatGpt, Gemini or even Copilot. In a thriving business and in pursuit of VC money, it's no surprise that more services and innovation are built based on AI. It's cool and all that jazz but I remain skeptical of its implication for the current and future generation.
So, are you a human or an AI?
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Tbh, the Internet was always a "spammy place", but I do agree that we are going in a direction that people will be obsolete soon... I remember back in the days, whatever would be popular (earning money over the Internet), would be always so much spammed and milked, that in the end, it would just lose its purpose and die...
In our case, it looks like we, humans, will be obsolete and disappear from the Internet... Sounds silly, but we are moving there... 😃
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It sounds silly indeed and we all thought it's just some conspiracy theory but the thing is, AI has advanced so much that the concerns that we used to have is increasingly real. There's incentives to build right now and I guess because it's money-driven we rarely think much of the future and social implications of all these. I am sure you've heard of UBI but really, how many countries can it actually be implemented?
The thing is, anything that's being built on anywhere hasn't really ripened yet. It's like bitcoin at first, it was just a small thing on the internet but then now, it's made it to news and has its special section for it. People are heavily invested at least 2% of their net worth. That also being said, Twitter is just like 586 million monthly users and not all of them may be aware but once it's ripened, I guess it's over xD and AI rules haha
I agree this AI stuff is getting overboard...it's scary. Especially the "deep fake" videos. I watched one with my prime minister (high level politician). I don't like him and they mad him say some weird info but this was clearly fake. What if people believe one of such and act out on it? Talk about innocent ppl getting harmed for nothing with that. Making fake evidence, all the corruption associated with it is so scary and wrong.
I think overall most of the internet is AI especially the news and such, well much of the world is. Why it has no personality and devolving. Everyone mindlessly following computers
The deep fake video is definitely interesting and very scary. For those who aren't aware of these technology, it will be hard for them to do that and very concerning. I still hope that we aren't going to be that crazy to have news and everything run by AI.
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Great ideas and questions about this new era that we're entering. AI will be baked into everything. I've actually accepted the idea that everyone is an AI (or using AI), so I don't have to worry about it anymore :D
But seriously, I think that many fantastic and somewhat unsettling things are on the horizon. William Gibson wrote a book called Idoru, which refers to a Japanese virtual artist. The virtual artist is entirely made up but seems to have a life outside the virtual world. It's not one of Gibson's best novels, but it is interesting that we're now close to that Idoru vision, as Miquela shows.
Exciting times ahead!
hahahahaha I guess we need to come to terms with it. I hate it but again, having too much idealism on it is bad.
It's exciting either in a good or bad way but with any type of change, there's always pros and cons. I am not really against AI but there are certain aspects of it that I don't like. For example, the deep fake to name a few.
There was a time in the cyberpunk 90s when some of us thought that deep fakes would be a great tool against oppression. Let's say leaders get out of hand, and it's all based on an impeccable image of power and charisma. Then you can knock them down a peg by creating deep fakes that make fun of them and thus diminish their power. So, this would be an innocent and yet effective way to use deep fakes to keep the powers that be in check. However, humans are way more creative than that and things can quickly get out of hand with AI. Will get out of hand. So, from my perspective, we have to at least be familiar with the tools and techniques, so we don't get caught with our pants down, as we colloquially say around here :D