Ai does not make me feel joy or excitement about the future. Especially regarding the things I love (education, literature, art, music, silly nerdy computer hobby stuff, etc). Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread? Do you think that the desire for human driven creativity, the desire to hold a physical book in your hand, or a physical paint brush, or to hang with your friends outside without cellphones will persist despite all the rubbish?
Or more generally, what gives you hope?
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Well, for one thing, among the general public, AI is less popular than ICE.
And the economics of AI don’t add up, so it can’t last forever. And everything that can’t last forever eventually stops.
I’m not gonna pretend everything is guaranteed to be fine, but I feel like we genuinely have a lot on our side.
Do you think that the desire for human driven creativity, the desire to hold a physical book in your hand, or a physical paint brush, or to hang with your friends outside without cellphones will persist despite all the rubbish?
Yeah dude, it’s not like every artistic person died. There are still people out there making movies on literal film.
Sometimes I just need the reminder !
What happens when it’s no longer profitable enough to make manufacturing film worthwhile? In recent years LOTS of companies have been moving towards focusing strictly on their most profitable items only - dropping things that were still profitable, but not enough to please their major shareholders who only care about profits being as high as they possibly can be.
Vinyl wasn’t profitable for decades and faded but a handful of artists and small companies kept it alive. A band even put out a wax cylinder in 2010 despite having to use a museum piece to do it and that almost no one has a device that can play it. VHS and cassettes are the new vinyl and I suspect will be a trend big manufacturers jump on and drive into the ground like they did vinyl in a few years. Then the artsy types will ditch that and start producing 8 tracks and Betamax again on some tech they cobbled from thrift stores and storage unit sales. Wanna film ICE without using your portable biometric GPS unit? Thrift stores are full of tape based camcorders and unused or tape over blanks.
Then people who want to make art will continue making art because they have something to communicate, as opposed to with the intent of selling it.
Then it’s time for a revolution
Does anyone have any thoughts that may somewhat help me feel less dread?
A lot of people feel the exact same way, but are just too burned out at this point to say anything. The AI sycophants just scream the loudest atm, doesn’t mean that they’re holding the popular position.
So you definitely aren’t alone and will always have plenty of options to hang out with people who aren’t brainwashed by that stupid thing.A lot of things make me dread the future, but I can only change the here and now.
Doing everything I can with as little AI as possible or none at all, being creative and holding on to my humanity despite the outside pressure to become dependent on this bullshit, it keeps me sane that at least I’m not letting myself be ruined by offloading my skills and thinking to a machine that can only fake them.
Spend less time online and you’ll find the support you’re looking for. I’ve always found ways to up my game with new tech, ai included. Tech is the spice to my meal, not the meal itself. Either way, I focus on the things I can control and let go of the rest. Whatever happens will happen, and worrying isn’t going to impact the result.
