We don’t talk about this enough. If we reach a point where art, music & literature are made solely by machines, there will never again be a Dante, a Beatles. No Tolkiens or Van Goghs. We will look back in disbelief at a time when humans did amazing things. Never again.
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IMO there are no benefits of AI that can compensate for the loss of human intellectual greatness it is bringing about.
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did you seriously compare Dante and The Beatles in the same sentence? lmao
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We're not going to reach that point. We may however reach the point where the conglomerates that sell us culture will sell nothing but art made by machines. These conglomerates will then die (but not quickly enough).
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Buying a karaoke machine doesn't legally dissolve the Beatles.
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The problem isn’t AI necessarily. AI doesn’t sound better than say Whitney Houston or Maria Callas. I’d venture to say it never will. But that’s also the problem because the younger generations will be prepared to accept the limitations the AI sets for them, for their life and therefore neglect to attempt to discover what is unlimited within themselves. There will be a dependency created on AI before they even explore their own creativity or develop their own neurotransmitters. There will be a dependence via UBI, it will all be a different world where only the current top tier tech oligarchs and their descendants will have freedom.
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Or much more likely, we will start getting incredible single person projects.
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Artists create to share, to connect, to express. I’ve not known any artist to lose passion just because something else can create. In fact, the opposite, amazing creation often inspires more creation. Why is this different?
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Resistance is only resistance if it has something to push against. At last the artist, the writer, the poet, has a nemesis that awaits the pinnacle of human form, an abomination against soul. The will against optimization. The tech bro against humanity. God's creation against man's creation. Rejoice for the first time art has transcended into war and war, which it does not break it crowns.
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There are more "great filters" In our path than anyone ever expected. What stops a civilization from settling the Galaxy? * Nuclear war. * Biological warfare. * Birthrate collapse due to dysfunctional ideology. * AI LLMs The list keeps growing...
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We must make sure that humans remain in control and use Super Intelligence as a tool like fire.
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We're already there. There will never be another Abrahslam Lincoln, who read his way into law. That's gate-kept now by the ABA.
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we reach that point when AI writes the apology too
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The Ai Systems are fantastic, but let’s remember we all have another amazing system inside our own heads, and we don’t truly know our own capabilities yet
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No, those people were self-driven. AI won't stop them, just people who are outcome and output-oriented.
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This was my first visceral AI fear, when GPT-3 came out. I didn't foresee that the arc of progress would turn from aesthetic progress (which it was making!!) to agenty progress.
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What confuses me is there's no market for AI 'art' apart from by the people who want to be AI 'artists'. AI writing is always a bit off because it not human, cheaper, more cliched. The people producing it don't realise that because the don't know the source material.
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I get your point but It’s not only going to stop us there. Say goodbye to all junior level work, which means nobody will ever reach senior because they were never given the chance.
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That’s never going to happen. Humans will always create. It’s what we do.
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People are already acting like books I had to read in high school English are beyond that grade level, or that no school child ever wrote 500 word essays.
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Van Gogh had Theo. Tolkien had a professorship. The Beatles had Hamburg. Every one of them had something paying for the long apprenticeship. That's worth protecting too.
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Why you think there will never be a Dante or Van Gogh? They created their art bec something deep inside them compelled them too. They are artist by profession. They don’t create something to get money or fame. They do it bec their mind almost forces it.
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The drying up, evaporation of true inspiration and creativity, leaving only the dregs - regurgitated, rehashed versions of anything that was once successfully. No paradigm shift, never.
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Artists are going to keep on creating, and they will probably create great art. The problem is that they will all starve, and the AI companies who own these machines will do everything in their power to eradicate the competition.
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Do you think the urge to create is that easily silenced, though? I hope there will always be some of us who must make art, music, stories, craft....
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People aren't going to stop having ideas. Dante isn't great because he couldn't use a typewriter.
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One very small silver lining; people who make things with their hands will enjoy a Renaissance of sorts. Unfortunately, it's hard to make a living selling wood carvings and paintings at outdoor gatherings.
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This is why they are pushing the idea of machine consciousness
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Bold to assume we will look back. Ignorant people have little interest in anything in the present, let alone in the past.
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It will never completely but it will become rarer perhaps.
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never happens. music could have been computer generated long ago, yet we still see guitarists, saxophonists, pianists etc everywhere some digital ai religion cult might only involve themselves with ai media but thats their cross
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what are you even talking about? Of course there will be exceptional people, now and in the future, there always will be. We don't discount Usain Bolt's speed because the cars can go faster
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