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Apr 20, 2023Liked by Simplicius

In 5 or 10 years, or perhaps even now, AI will be able to fabricate audio/video and evidential records which appear true and implicate individuals in crime or morally reprehensible acts.

They may be used intentionally by FBI and deep state, or simply released to the internet by opponents of the person targeted to destroy their reputation and life.

It will happen in political campaigns.

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The bullshit is automated? Why am I not surprised?

More noise, same amount of signal.

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Apr 20, 2023Liked by Simplicius

"Maybe it will even be the death of the pop music genre altogether. Would that really be a bad thing?"

Not just pop music, but all genres of music and all kinds of art! Even literature! Would that be a bad thing? We are truly entering the matrix world. We will never be able to tell what's real and what's not real. To my mind, it is almost the end of modern civilisation.

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Apr 20, 2023Liked by Simplicius

Brings to mind the commercial, "Is it Live or is it Memorex?"

We all need to strengthen our discernment.

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Apr 20, 2023Liked by Simplicius

What really fascinates me is how this proliferation of patterns’ multiplication, or, rather, syntactical multiplication in real time, taken as semantic ‘outcomes’, is reduced to the issue of job losses…. Once again, thank you for your reflections.

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Is AI right now capable of critical thinking? As in not only analyzing data it is given but actually recognizing what data points it needs to reach a decision and assess the quality and reliability of that data?

Just a random thought..

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One of my pet peeves, with our current cosmology, the Big Bang Theory/expanding universe, is it's premised on "spacetime," the presumed physical basis for General Relativity, the central axiom of which is the speed of light is always measured as a constant in any frame. Yet the essential premise of this theory is the wave lengths are stretched by the expanding space, but the speed of light is otherwise stable. Logically in relativistic spacetime, if the frame were to expand, the speed of light would have to increase, in order to remain constant. Instead it assumes two different metrics of space, based on the speed and spectrum of the same light. Now if the speed were the numerator, it would be a "tired light" theory, but as an "expanding space" theory, the speed is still the effective denominator.

Now a friend was digging into chatbot a few weeks ago and asked if I had any questions, so, in so many words, I asked why, if intergalactic space expands, why doesn't the speed of intergalactic light increase, in order to remain constant?

Safe to say, I got a total garbled runaround. Just like any program, it can't think outside its box, so it quickly becomes GIGO (garbage in, garbage out).

It's like a self driving car. 90% of the time, it works, but the other 10% of the time, you are dead. Which is about like life. 90% of the time, we are on autopilot, but the other 10% of the time, we'd better think, or we are in serious trouble.

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Fascinating on so many levels! Will AI really make so much difference to Pop Music 'creations'? Given the example above I'd say not really. It is interesting though that the copyright lawyers are already homing in on this phenomenon. Will Pop music 'performers' care about Ai provided they get paid thanks to new legislation?

As for Art and Literature: will people who don't read books anyway care that Ai is chucking out 'texts'? Will people who've grown up with videos really care if the content they find is Ai generated? Will they be able to tell the difference?

Given that 'sensitivity editors' are already being tasked with cleaning up books published a century or fifty years ago 'because: offending!', will people really care if the texts they read on their electronic 'readers' are modernised and not the original as printed in actual books? Will they even notice the difference?

So will people happily live 'in the matrix' - or will the 'green future' so desired by globalists lead to a return to actual artists performing music only live; to painters and sculptors using actual paint on canvas or material to sculpt with; to writers demanding actual, physical print editions for their works - all because the huge amount of electricity needed to run AI is no longer available thanks to green, Net Zero policies?

Well, I suppose as long as copyright lawyers are getting money for their clients and themselves it won't matter any longer ...

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Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023

But, voice = signature = identity = propriety ; so, about the copyrights, i have a problem of logic...

And, btw, a real "truth AI" should break rapidly all the cover up and falseflags 'in use' ; for example, such an AI will remember that each vaccination campaign just brought back disappearing deseases, vaxx are deadly and vaXXX19 a genocidal hoax, Faucci a fiercy lyer, and so on... Pasteur fraud and all the others ones would break out !! All the free energy devices will come back as energy sustainable ways, etc in medecine, and so on.... Could be a real revolution bringing back the Truth, just depend on algorithms and programmation 'spirit' !

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Judging from the quality of this Drake recording, pop music has already long since died and rotted away completely.

Is this what people choose to listen to?

God help us all.

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Don't set your hopes too high. History teaches that the most pessimistic scenario invariably wins. Pop music and pop soda will be the only things left standing, all alternatives banned and repressed.

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Pop music and boys bands are industrially manufactured glop devoid of artistic merit. This is just streamlining the process.

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These AI seem like some of the older folk who drink in my local - they have an opinion about everything...There should be a law limiting the number of opinions you can express, same as "there should be a law against you coming around" that 1960s folksinger suggested ?

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So it begins

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Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023

Simplicius suggests the AI threat "[...] just goes to show that in the near future, we can expect a veritable deluge of AI-spawned bastardizations of every conceivable pursuit and discipline a human being can call a livelihood."

But AI's can't physically build stuff like infrastructure, roads, houses, ships, metal refineries - nor can they fight wars, or eat a bowl of rice. Or paint a wall, or lay a carpet, or gather fire wood.

Plus AI's can't build themselves. They live ENTIRELY inside microchips, which rely on helium to build, which will run out when natural gas (from which all current helium supply is filtered from) runs out in a few short decades.

AI's die without electricity. Wind and solar (low energy density solar flows harvesting) electricity machines supply barely 10% of global electricity, (nuclear ~10%, hydro 15%, fossils ~65%) and can't build themselves because just like AI's and indeed the entire economy, all rely ENTIRELY on fossil fuels - which will be economically depleted by end of this century.

Beyond the short term of a decade or so, rather than AI's taking over "every conceivable pursuit and discipline a human being can call a livelihood" over the next few generations humans will be forced to engage in managing the global decline in energy that, by end of this century, will cause a population crash back to the level enjoyed c250 years ago, when high energy density coal and later oil began to be burnt.

https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/251-the-everything-crisis/

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Apr 20, 2023·edited Apr 20, 2023

if you view all human activity on a continuum at one end commonly agreed upon truth and the other end 100% bullsh'' (lies) the internet and AI is being and will be used by it participants to push towards one end of the continuum or the other depending upon the end goal of the user.

what ultimately makes the whole thing entertaining is one side will use both the internet and AI to prove the lying side as bullshit just as the lying side will use the SAME tools.... internet and AI to fool and fleece as many as they can............we are all in this new world on our own..... perception and understanding is not a team sport.

at the end of the day you personal level of ''real''' education (not higher ed brainwashing), your ability to think critically, your IQ, your motivations will determine how the internet and AI effects your life.

sadly as has been demonstrated countless times before the internet and AI a significant percent of every society is chum for the sharks and nothing will change this fact.

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