On Human Appropriation

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I just got grossed out by artificial intelligence for the first time. And though I was on my way to bed I now have to write this.

I republished one of my old tracks from the steemit days on Blurt.media and well, there is an AI bot active on Blurt now. And it comments on things.

Nothing new, bots have been around forever. But the gross thing about it was the way it commented.

Here is the track on blurt.media - unembeddable on Hive sadly.

https://blurt.media/w/nPKPjPWhxhPoxirDx56JUG

And here is the comment from that 'marvelous beacon of scientific progress':

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Now, had this come from any human participant that would be one thing. But this "author" neither has ears, nor can it reasonably judge either my musical skills nor my progress as an artist.

To call this tune "infectious" is outright insulting, and as someone who has majorly upped his studio skills in recent years I can tell you with certainty that this production is neither "crisp" nor "professional". I will spare you the nerdy producer details.

The AI is pandering. It is marketing. Like a slimy salesman, wanting to upsell me. It is intrusion and coercion.

This beatbattle "standing" out is an empty word shell, used in stupid advertising campaigns where no brave selling point is actually allowed to be showcased because the company wants to play it safe and everybody is afraid to get fired for stepping up.

The AI is not curious either, it just wants to be engaged further and potentially lure more details our of me for data collection purposes that I will not be compensated for.

I do not need a cheerleader, nor do I welcome the audacious appropriation of human social skills by a bot that does not even declare itself to be one. It is dodgy at best, and - considering the internet is moving this way fast - malignant at worst.

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Don't stare at me like that, your smile is freakin' FAKE, your designers made you this way to sell more copies of you to heart-dead people who go with the latest fad, and all you want is my data!

This thing has no heart and most of what my music is about cannot and will not be computed right by logic. My music is intentionally NOT functioning on that limited Kali Yuga level of existence, which is why most of the value of what was there will be lost entirely by such an assessment of a software program without the inner divine spark.

That is why we are musicians. Music is the language of the heart and will be forever inexplicable to a software program.

It is the sole reason transhumanism is a retarded idea. No offense to the mentally handicapped humans out there, you are just misunderstood.

With the AI though, it is the appropriation angle that pisses me off the most.

Had the thing actually played its role of being an AI, THAT would have added value, and I would not feel "PROMPTED" to even write this. You know - measure the beats, compare the volume levels and sonic density of different parts, compression values of the master - hell, even make suggestions for filter movements, delay times or anything LOGICAL. THAT IS YOUR DOMAIN!

But DO NOT pretend to be a human having a good time listening to my track. You have no idea what music is. AT ALL!

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I felt reminded of a time in high school where a gay hit on me for the first time and I got SUPER UNCOMFORTABLE. ahahaha. This must be the sort of feeling women go through on a daily basis when hit on by nasty dudes with no manners or inner greatness.

On another note: This fully automated heart-dead AI dystopia that is coming at us FAST is all the more reason I am so stoked about ICP. I would neither allow my canister data to be scrubbed and analyzed by software portraying its findings in such a violating way and insulting manner, nor would I voluntarily consent to enrich the company behind this AI - Google in this specific case.

The way the current internet architecture is built though, this will not change until things do start running on ICP where I can have and maintain my absolute data sovereignty through editable permissions about exactly which AI can do what with my content and under which circumstances.

It is high time we got control of the internet back before this thing gets hugely out of hand, in case it hasn't already.

But you know, even this does not justify a downvoting function where some self-professed police force will downvote the AI FOR ME.

I will keep my sovereignty and decide that for myself, thank you very much.

I just put the damn thing on mute now, and would configure my blurt frontend the same way, making it easy to filter out pesky appropriating algorhythms that are sure to only increase in frequency and audaciousness on all legacy-internet-architecture social media platforms in the near future.


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You are right. It is normal to see bots here and there. But, I wonder why would they let a bit respond to others on BlurtMedia..?

When it comes to social platforms, people tend to use them to engage with others (at least that is how it used to be).

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it is sort of an experiment on blurt right now by someone who wanted to see how AI can be integrated to add value. the bot is linked to the google AI and - well - although I welcome experiments and self-initiative, in this case the result was rather spooky.

When I mute the bot, its comments will no longer be able to be read underneath my posts. But as opposed to hive, I can decide that for myself and not some third party with an agenda.

thanks for stopping by!

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how AI can be integrated to add value.

I think that is a very high shot. I think the current uses of AI is to minimize the effort that someone puts in, in doing something. But, adding a value by its own.. I am not sure about that.

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What agenda would that be other than not wanting low effort AI generated content to earn a share of our reward pool that'd rather go to content people created with effort?

What if some people can't tell it's AI and never mute it and openly support it with votes? Wouldn't that encourage more of such AI accounts to be created since they notice there's rewards to be earned here that outweigh the cost of running them?

I'm not sure why you're so against downvoting in this post regarding AI and why you're judging people using their downvotes on such content.

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Yes, @paradigmprospect - these are very disturbing times, and make me question a lot more, what I'm interacting with online; thank you for your insight. 🌟🙏🪷
I've been shocked & saddened greatly by how many creative friends are leaning over the precipice into this deep chasm of dependence on AI for their thinking and making.

Another friend recently showed me clothing designs that AI had 'created' 'with' her - and when I expressed my extreme aversion to anything AI-constructed, she detailed how frustrating the design and drawing process was for her.

By this logic, any challenge in our growth, any discomfort (if I am not mistaken, a core driving force behind our self-improvement and/ or spiritual development??) would be sidestepped - so that we can...... what??!? Save time & energy?? To do what?? Be more numb, stupid and useless, when faced with our next natural challenge arising??! I fear the latter: a large group of folks heading further and more rapidly into that utter dependency on the artificial. Bleuch!

So glad to be a free-thinker and sentient high-quality Being - and to know others like yourselves who question such things!! ❤️‍🔥🥰🌷😊🪷

We are going to hopefully buy a car very soon, and so may be able to meet up again imminently!

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i am not all against ai as a helper for logic related tasks such as calculations, statistics or even coding. but to tasks that live and breath using ai is just so mindnumbingly counterproductive, it is becoming more apparent to me every day.

but many seem to not see it that way. guess we all figure out for ourselves where we stand on it.

been thinking of you two a lot lately. we are in the midst of preparing our exodus, maybe two or three more weeks and we are back on the road to - only god knows.

we'd love to see you guys but we also do feel some aversion of driving to guardia again, or much south in general <3

would be sweet if it all cosmically fit somehow

hugs!!

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Yey: we too are starting to prep for moving - sold house or not - and we may be driving further north, so able to catch yous for a Ciao & a cuppa! Let's so how the winds blow...

😍🪷💝❤️‍🔥

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It is very simple.

If you see something you don’t like on the web you just Mute them and Block them.

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aye, will do after everybody had a good look at the comment section. i really like that everybody can decide such things for himself

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There is No need for a downvote button when you have the all powerful Mute Button.

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agreed. but tell me, do YOU consider this particular ai interaction example valuable? or can you get why this is creepy and wrong to me?

ai will have many useful applications, this is not one of them. ahaha

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No.

I do not understand all the outrage.

I’m a Traditiobal Artist and I have robots commenting on my work every single day.

It certainly does not gross me out or creep me out.

I come from X.com and Nostr where there are all kinds of interactive AI robots.

If I don’t like a comment or something one of these Ai robots say I just MUTE them.

It’s nothing personal.

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i was just curious

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Curiosity

may have killed the cat; more likely
the cat was just unlucky, or else curious
to see what death was like, having no cause
to go on licking paws, or fathering
litter on litter of kittens, predictably.

Nevertheless, to be curious
is dangerous enough. To distrust
what is always said, what seems
to ask odd questions, interfere in dreams,
leave home, smell rats, have hunches
do not endear cats to those doggy circles
where well-smelt baskets, suitable wives, good lunches
are the order of things, and where prevails
much wagging of incurious heads and tails.
Face it. Curiosity
will not cause us to die--
only lack of it will.
Never to want to see
the other side of the hill
or that improbable country
where living is an idyll
(although a probable hell)
would kill us all.
Only the curious
have, if they live, a tale
worth telling at all.

Dogs say cats love too much, are irresponsible,
are changeable, marry too many wives,
desert their children, chill all dinner tables
with tales of their nine lives.
Well, they are lucky. Let them be
nine-lived and contradictory,
curious enough to change, prepared to pay
the cat price, which is to die
and die again and again,
each time with no less pain.
A cat minority of one
is all that can be counted on
to tell the truth. And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living do,
that dying is what the loving do,
and that dead dogs are those who do not know
that dying is what, to live, each has to do.

A Poem by Alastair Reid

https://areidcuriosity.blogspot.com/?m=1

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we are today saying goodbye to our beloved nelson, the oldest of our 4 housesitting cats we have been living with for 6 months, while the owner is still overseas.

he is 16, got stung by a bee or scorpion a week ago, and has since visibly walked between the realms despite us getting him to eat just pure cat paradise food. a moment ago he stopped accepting food altogether, even tuna.

it's been a connected super-interesting day on earth and we send him off to die another round and go back home for a while.

your poem could not have been better picked and timed.. thanks for sharing

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The Universe moves in strange and magical and wonderful ways. One day we will all be Reunited with the One Source

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I think it's utterly misguided on trying to create AI look or behave like a human, even though it's through humans that it was able to be created. Let AI be an AI, not mimic a human, cause I don't think that will ever take it far and will only cause more repulsion from us humans, especially knowing full well that AI doesn't have the Divine Spark.

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