I recently learned Netflix and other streaming providers now create content with the assumption of being a “second screen”. They repeat plot points and dumb it down so that people scrolling on their phones and only halfway paying attention can still follow along. We’re down a bad path in general and AI sure isn’t helping. Maybe the next step is AI summaries so people don’t even have to watch the AI slop content in the first place?
AI summaries of videos are already a feature on Youtube so you don‘t miss or even watch anything!
I’ve always said, AI is going to destroy human culture. Once enough of these talentless hacks get their sweaty little hands on a prompt, everything creative will evaporate from our lives and be replaced by this sterile homogenized bastardizaton of what we once were.
Essentially we will reach the uncanny valley of human culture.
And at this point, there is no going back. I’d guarantee that young people are already seeing no point in bothering to lean musically instruments, or traditional art.
Man. The future is BLEAK.
Not all of them. I’ve got three school aged kids, one plays guitar and saxophone, one plays clarinet and trumpet, one is just starting the trombone.
If anything, I am seeing the kids push back against this shit. My kids have an ear for and hate ai produced music; they get so angry about “clanker music”. They really value being able to make their own, and I love the constant noise of real instruments being practiced in my house.
Lots don’t care, but there are still many pockets of kids who hate all this as much as we do, and are pursuing a more analog lifestyle.
This is great to hear! And damn good parenting my friend.
Thanks bud, I’m trying. Shit ass world to do it in, but them and a lot of their friends give me quite a bit of hope.
I’m with you comrade. It’s tough raising a kid in this world but as far as I see it we’re playing the long game now.
Gotta believe that our way of doing things wins out over time. Along with other, more direct, strategies.
Bingo. How I see it too, it’s why I became a a leader in my kids activities too. Figure I might as well do whatever I can to help build a better generation.
AI was sold as a tool to liberate humans from boring work. Somehow we got the opposite: humans lose creative jobs while machines mass produce disposable content nobody asked for. What an inspiring future: fewer artists, fewer writers, fewer careers, and an infinite ocean of algorithmic sludge.
I feel like the more I use AI at work, the more I feel like it’s replacing the things I actually enjoy doing, leaving me with the leftovers.
It’s always the fucking suits who get the lion’s share.
This is the one underlying factor that has killed any respect I used to have for my country’s copyright laws. Ideally I would want the creative talent to get ownership of their work and all the legal protection that would entitle them to, but we’re already seeing how the laws are being flaunted for the sake of these AI chuds openly practicing the sort of “piracy” that people who are only sharing their files with no real profit incentives take the heat for
Honestly I think the real takeaway is how much media was already just slop used to sell ads to begin with.
As someone who plays live music, the live gig scene is on the up, I think because people are sick of the slop and want assured human connection.
I can see mixed medium performances like Cloud Cult becoming more popular as we move into the AI future.
Creative industry was already creatively bankrupt by pandering to all these weird fetishists online
