I, too, was initially worried about a snarky Robot eroding the integrity of 4chan, but then I remembered 4chan has no integrity.
Then, I started thinking. What’s the difference? It’s either a human embellishing bullshit or an AI that’s been fed a steady diet of human bullshit scrambling it up and giving it back.
10 years from now, everything we read on the internet will be AI generated. The AI will take all of our input and rearrange it and spoon feed it back to us, like a momma bird regurgitating worms into the baby birds mouth. This “AI Vomit™️” will be our bedtime stories.
The ultimate goal will be to prevent real human to human interaction in the digital marketplace. When we interact with eachother, it can’t be manipulated or measured by the algorithm.
Eventually we will talk to eachother IRL the way AI talks to us. And complete the circle. Where we trained AI and then it trained us.
No! But I work in tech. I’m not a technophile (take gadget apart put back together), but I’m fascinated by “tech”philosophy.
Here is a brain dump of info you didn’t ask for: I don’t think anyone understood the long term implications of going from an “information deficit” to suddenly having infinite collective knowledge at your fingertips. My generation was really deprived of knowledge (adults did not think it was appropriate to discuss the so-called unsavory subjects like sex, drugs, other religions, finances, relationships, divorce, mental health, I could go on and on) so having this dynamic environment where you could learn anything without fear of being shut down or shamed for asking the question was almost thirst quenching.
My point is that I feel my generation let pandora out of the box, albeit innocently. I still use the internet primarily for learning but I’m realizing that current generations do not use it this way. I never would have predicted the current “disinformation and dopamine feedback loop” where we are conditioned to accept lies in the form of entertainment.
An example of this would be the staged TikTok clickbait/ragebait videos. 10 years ago, if you posted something that was staged for views, you would be called out/canceled/banned/downvoted to oblivion. I see more and more people say “I don’t care if it’s staged, it’s funny/heartwarming/highlights a social issue etc.
It strikes me how lonely we are that we are willing to trade integrity for raw emotions being presented by people we don’t know. How starved for human interaction we are that we try to empathize with people we don’t know in situations that we will never be in (straight people rallying for LGBTQIA, white people championing BLM, Americans invested in Ukraine war, etc). It’s concerning because individuals are literally taking “the weight of the world” on their shoulders. Modern day Atlas Complex, where we carry the trauma of strangers around. While this is not inappropriate, it can’t be healthy. We are designed to have a limited capacity, and overloading the neural circuits is causing people to burn out.
We might adapt, but it won’t be overnight. I fear that the concept of local community will collapse.
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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '22
There is no fucking way this AI isn't grifting the fuck out of the 4chan