Books made before 2019. Amazon is absolutely filled with AI generated books nowadays.
In fact, this whole “consume media only from 2010 and earlier” idea is getting more appealing by the day. I’d rather watch an anime from the 80’s where each frame was drawn by a human hand and somebody spent a week encoding it to extract all the details from the original analogue source, and the subtitles were made by a person who considered each nuance carefully as if their life depended on it, rather than watch a 2025 sequel to a prequel to a reboot of an existing IP where half the assets are AI, the subtitles are AI, the script is AI, and it’s just the most generic mass appealing thing ever made.
It’s pretty sad, creepy and hopeless, but this is exactly how I have been feeling lately with YouTube videos. If it’s made post GPT, I am not inclined to watch it unless it’s a channel I know has a stated anti-AI position, because at least then I know I’m getting human input. They are building up Plato’s cave around us stone by stone, we can’t even move out of the way, we are getting imprisoned, and the few of us who see it happening and shout are being drowned out by the noise of the billions around us who happily hum along.
The system itself needs to come down, with violence, or we won’t make it, none of us, and honestly even if it does, I am not sure we are going to survive. I feel like I’m playing the fiddle on the Titanic.
Books made before 2019. Amazon is absolutely filled with AI generated books nowadays.
In fact, this whole “consume media only from 2010 and earlier” idea is getting more appealing by the day. I’d rather watch an anime from the 80’s where each frame was drawn by a human hand and somebody spent a week encoding it to extract all the details from the original analogue source, and the subtitles were made by a person who considered each nuance carefully as if their life depended on it, rather than watch a 2025 sequel to a prequel to a reboot of an existing IP where half the assets are AI, the subtitles are AI, the script is AI, and it’s just the most generic mass appealing thing ever made.
It’s pretty sad, creepy and hopeless, but this is exactly how I have been feeling lately with YouTube videos. If it’s made post GPT, I am not inclined to watch it unless it’s a channel I know has a stated anti-AI position, because at least then I know I’m getting human input. They are building up Plato’s cave around us stone by stone, we can’t even move out of the way, we are getting imprisoned, and the few of us who see it happening and shout are being drowned out by the noise of the billions around us who happily hum along.
The system itself needs to come down, with violence, or we won’t make it, none of us, and honestly even if it does, I am not sure we are going to survive. I feel like I’m playing the fiddle on the Titanic.
Since a lot of channels have started stating they use no AI, I have unsubscribed from quite a few that don’t explicitly say so.