Greg the stormtrooper is going to say hello to Disneys lawyers.
Its been done before as well, remember those old Troops videos in the early days of the Internet? those guys had talent, made the effort and they were made out of the love for the product and the creative process, not just to make money.
As I’ve been saying for years, the Internet is bisecting into two distinct groups: one group doesn’t care one bit about the quality of information, its authenticity, and craftsmanship; the other group cares very much about these things.
The first group are the people who think there’s no difference between fine art and mass-produced replicas of painting bought at Walmart. It doesn’t bother them that Jerry Springer and professional wrestling were staged. They probably care about what’s popular and convenient instead of what’s valuable, profound, and thoughtful. They don’t care if they believe false things or if their political views are based on fictional appraisals of the world. They think AI is art and have no problem with using or consuming it. They’ll be mostly found on the places like Facebook in the future.
The second group are the rare treats of the world. They care very much for fine art and insist that there is a difference between something fine and something mass-produced, that human labor, creativity, craftsmanship, and spirit matters greatly. They expect sports to be fair contests, not decided in advance for ratings. Naturally curious, they‘d rather hunt to discover something intriguing than go with whatever is popular and convenient. They’re not afraid to dig through old vinyls at music stores and hunt for obscure bands. They care about things like logical consistency, reality testing, and high-quality sources. Needless to say, they very much do care about AI, think it’s morally abhorrent, think it should be labeled, and think it’s inauthentic, or, at the very least, that it’s clearly not the same as human craftsmanship. They’ll mostly be found here on Substack in the future.
Increasingly, different platforms are going to cater to these groups differently, further solidifying the divide. Each group doesn’t necessarily do or consume all of these things, but the moral values underpinning their views on these things will definitely further drive this divide.
I fear a future of mundane click bait nonsense, created by machines trained on our own mundane clickbait nonsense, which was made to get a few bucks and is now AIs major source of truth. But hey, maybe if the internet turns to sludge we’ll spend less time on it and more time in the real world with the people we love.
Greg the stormtrooper is going to say hello to Disneys lawyers.
Its been done before as well, remember those old Troops videos in the early days of the Internet? those guys had talent, made the effort and they were made out of the love for the product and the creative process, not just to make money.
As I’ve been saying for years, the Internet is bisecting into two distinct groups: one group doesn’t care one bit about the quality of information, its authenticity, and craftsmanship; the other group cares very much about these things.
The first group are the people who think there’s no difference between fine art and mass-produced replicas of painting bought at Walmart. It doesn’t bother them that Jerry Springer and professional wrestling were staged. They probably care about what’s popular and convenient instead of what’s valuable, profound, and thoughtful. They don’t care if they believe false things or if their political views are based on fictional appraisals of the world. They think AI is art and have no problem with using or consuming it. They’ll be mostly found on the places like Facebook in the future.
The second group are the rare treats of the world. They care very much for fine art and insist that there is a difference between something fine and something mass-produced, that human labor, creativity, craftsmanship, and spirit matters greatly. They expect sports to be fair contests, not decided in advance for ratings. Naturally curious, they‘d rather hunt to discover something intriguing than go with whatever is popular and convenient. They’re not afraid to dig through old vinyls at music stores and hunt for obscure bands. They care about things like logical consistency, reality testing, and high-quality sources. Needless to say, they very much do care about AI, think it’s morally abhorrent, think it should be labeled, and think it’s inauthentic, or, at the very least, that it’s clearly not the same as human craftsmanship. They’ll mostly be found here on Substack in the future.
Increasingly, different platforms are going to cater to these groups differently, further solidifying the divide. Each group doesn’t necessarily do or consume all of these things, but the moral values underpinning their views on these things will definitely further drive this divide.
Its crazy to think that you could remove all people from these coming AI driven platforms and the posts, likes and shares would continue without us.
I fear a future of mundane click bait nonsense, created by machines trained on our own mundane clickbait nonsense, which was made to get a few bucks and is now AIs major source of truth. But hey, maybe if the internet turns to sludge we’ll spend less time on it and more time in the real world with the people we love.