Has the War Against AI Already Been Lost?

[the_antithesis]

I recently had an epiphany on this.

I used to work telephone customer service for a cell phone company in the early 2000's. Horrible job. One call I got was a teenaged girl who'd ran up a $1000 texting bill. Chances are they wound up taking a partial amount on that bill, which was still more than the monthly charge.

Cryptocurrency has already cratered and A.I. is currently losing billions of dollars a year because these new tech things do not make money and have no way to fleece early adopters the way successful tech did, like cell phones.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Darwin looks down and smiles.

[Blackleaf]

AI has a lot of legitimate applications, but art is not one of them. We've invested over a trillion dollars into shitty image generators and unreliable Google alternatives. Elon's robots STILL rely on unseen, human pilots, because they can't be trusted not to embarrass Elon and make all his investors think all their money has been wasted on junk nobody needs. AI has eroded our trust, as artists have to prove they actually made what they made, and tools like Sora make misinformation easier to spread than ever.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I was unaware that some people thought the Forbin Project was a current reality.

[Hydra009]

Don't fourget to watch Fantastic One-Three before Fantastic Four!

[the_antithesis]

I went right to Leonard Part 6.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I suspect this time in human history will be deemed "The What The Actual Fuck Era."

[Cassia]

I suspect this time in human history will be deemed "The What The Actual Fuck Era."

Yeah, the unleashed power of micro-targeted propaganda and misinformation versus our weak ape-brains. The result is chemically driven irrational emotions. Old school mass media like newsprint and radio kicked it off and that alone was enough to crank out world wars.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

When I was going for my Masters I went through Section 1 of the New York Times for every day from September 1939 to August 1945. Kept copies for further research. Good way to get a feel for the time.

[Blackleaf]

I suspect this time in human history will be deemed "The What The Actual Fuck Era."

Assuming people live long enough to write about it.

[Nobody]

I suspect this time in human history will be deemed "The What The Actual Fuck Era."

I suspect this time in human history will be completely forgotten, because there won't be anyone around to remember it.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Well, there might be as many as three kinds of body lice that will miss humans.