RE: What kind of world do we want to live in?
A few years ago, not too long ago, I watched a documentary on TV about the use of AI in Asia. I don't even know if it's AI exactly, it was about this fad to 'create' influencers, singers, models and all kinds of celebrities who have their accounts online, live and work online, have their huge following, but... in practice they don't exist. Or that other tradition in China where AI replaces missing children, deceased relatives or other people you miss by creating avatars that have the same look, voice and demeanor and people don't even perceive them as "machines" as I call them, but like real people. This is something I find appalling in every aspect, even a moral one. Some time ago I wrote about the differences between peoples of different countries, continents and races and why the term globalism could not exist. Especially the differences between peoples who live at two different ends of the earth. Here is an example of these differences: if some things happen in China and they are normal for the people there, morally acceptable, desired and supported by everyone, it does not mean that this is the case for the rest of the world. Personally, I am horrified by these things and would be terrified if they came and were adopted and imposed in Europe, for example. Perhaps this is why there has been this uproar in recent blockchain developments. There are people who support this, some even justified it with traditions in Asia, but for others it is unacceptable - again, in an international blockchain there can hardly be an understanding between users, because the concept of globalism does not exist...
Oops, I got off topic again with your comment. But not so much - it's about the struggle to preserve the humane over machine takeover.
Seeing your favorite singer do something they're not actually doing is startling or at the very least unpleasant because of the feeling of being cheated afterwards. I know the songs and albums of my favorite artists and trust their official YouTube channels, but at the end of the day, no one is safe from this fake. And yes, people make money, very often through scams, other times through absolute bullsh^t. In most cases, the most viewed videos, through which vloggers earn tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars, if they are not scams, are actually absolute garbage - how someone sings, but can't sing, dances, but can't dance, does some stupid things and nonsensical stuff, freak shows... people love that kind of stuff, that's our intellectual set for the moment on a general level.
Okay, many things in this comment of yours are new to me... but especially the part about the Chinese documentary didn’t worry me much. Because nothing can replace human touch. It's true that there are many aspects of AI... good and bad things... but in this context, it didn't seem concerning to me.
BUT
ONE thing that has been troubling me day and night, and has become a huge issue in my house... One day, my daughter's tablet (gadget) almost got broken at the hands of her father. It's these senseless videos, these ridiculous shorts... How does one escape them? They're filled with such stupidity, mindless content, and freakish antics that it's hard to believe people even find them entertaining. It's like they're designed to trap attention and make you lose track of time, leaving us battling screens.
It's really frightening and very frustrating!!!
Perhaps we should also not forget that each new generation has its own peculiarities and inclinations, total specificities, perhaps because of this the separate generations can never understand each other and always the older ones, in this case us, 🤭 no matter how much we don't want it, we think that things get worse with time, children do strange and incomprehensible to us things, while when we were young, our parents and grandparents thought the same about us too...
Things change, so do people, so does the world. But to talk to projections of dead people, considering them alive or your idols to be artificial characters that do not exist... to me this is too much and beyond what is possible to perceive. Or maybe I'm getting too old already, faster than I should. 😃