What humanity has created with AI is the ultimate bullshit machine.
Everything it creates is bullshit.
But creating bullshit is the easy part. The difference with AI is that it creates bullshit that is ever more and more believable.
And we are gobbling it up even as it’s being force-fed to us.
We’ve already gobbled up so much that we can scarcely tell what’s real and what’s bullshit anymore. As if we ever could to begin with.
But at least we used to be able to pretend to ourselves that we could. We don’t even have that luxury anymore.
I do not profess to know what the hell to do about it.
At this point we would basically have to outlaw all photographs and videos, audio recordings, digital records, and whatever the hell else AI is liable to get its hands into. Everybody would have to rely on their own eyes and ears to determine what’s real. Of course you would still have liars, which ironically the audio and video recordings originally served to convict.
But nobody’s ever going to go along with outlawing all those things.
If you ask me what is really called for here is a good old-fashioned Butlerian Jihad.
But since most people are too illiterate to even know what that is or too incurious or lazy to even bother looking it up I figure we’re all pretty much screwed.
I’m sure you could get a bullshit machine to tell you otherwise though.
And now that I think about, there have always been walking talking bullshit machines dwelling amongst us. Hell, I see one in the mirror at least once a day.
So I guess the more things change the more they stay the same.
Or something like that anyways.
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