Humanity will regret the day that AI was conceived. Yeah, I follow a couple of Instagram accounts that make "AI models" of hot guys. I'd love to hire one to design the lead characters of my novel. But humanity's moral codes haven't evolved in tandem with its technological competence, and it's already obvious that people are going to use AI to screw with each other. AI, neura-links, and the rest of that crap is going to be the death of a lot of people. Frank Herbert made computers forbidden in his Dune world, and that decision is becoming more prescient by the day.
I could see not just AI, but the internet as a whole, eventually being viewed as one big virus, nothing but a phishing scam, that also bends and manipulates reality. A return to physical media would be great - solving the issue of distribution will only come from more people choosing what media they consume, as opposed to passively consuming MSM propaganda.
As for the AI actors - the 2023 story of Netflix 'scanning' actors and actresses' faces and bodies in order to recreate AI simulations, was the start of a sinister turning point in reality manipulation:
I hope people start to view the internet that way: as a mind virus. A parasite that worms into the brain and destroys the part that distinguishes real from bullsh*t. In the middle of an alleged pandemic, people with supercomputers in their pockets couldn't exert themselves even to look up "common cold" on Wikipedia, where coronaviruses and RSV are listed as known causes.
As far as the actors go, I'm torn between scorning them as Luddites and knowing that the modern "looms" threatening to replace them are loaded with invisible thread. Audiences who couldn't tell real from the biggest psyop in world history won't do any better when the next naked emperor appears on their screens.
On yet another hand, if the thought of AI realizing still images of your characters is tempting, think how cool it would be to have it render your entire novel as a feature film. No seven-year-long wrangles with studios, agents, and lawyers; no settling for your fourth choice for an actor; no interminable fights with the writers and producers over what stays in and what gets cut...You don't even have to convince a literary agent with blue hair and a bone in her nose to get your story published first. You'd execute your vision without a single compromise. What's the fall of our species compared to something that cool?
Your point is well made! I don't think it stops at text-to-video. Eventually, with robotics given human likeness, people could 3D print their characters. Text-to-print. Then things get really wild.
Humanity will regret the day that AI was conceived. Yeah, I follow a couple of Instagram accounts that make "AI models" of hot guys. I'd love to hire one to design the lead characters of my novel. But humanity's moral codes haven't evolved in tandem with its technological competence, and it's already obvious that people are going to use AI to screw with each other. AI, neura-links, and the rest of that crap is going to be the death of a lot of people. Frank Herbert made computers forbidden in his Dune world, and that decision is becoming more prescient by the day.
I could see not just AI, but the internet as a whole, eventually being viewed as one big virus, nothing but a phishing scam, that also bends and manipulates reality. A return to physical media would be great - solving the issue of distribution will only come from more people choosing what media they consume, as opposed to passively consuming MSM propaganda.
As for the AI actors - the 2023 story of Netflix 'scanning' actors and actresses' faces and bodies in order to recreate AI simulations, was the start of a sinister turning point in reality manipulation:
https://theintercept.com/2023/07/25/strike-hollywood-ai-disney-netflix/
Good luck with your novel, I hope we can purchase a hard copy when it's ready!
I hope people start to view the internet that way: as a mind virus. A parasite that worms into the brain and destroys the part that distinguishes real from bullsh*t. In the middle of an alleged pandemic, people with supercomputers in their pockets couldn't exert themselves even to look up "common cold" on Wikipedia, where coronaviruses and RSV are listed as known causes.
As far as the actors go, I'm torn between scorning them as Luddites and knowing that the modern "looms" threatening to replace them are loaded with invisible thread. Audiences who couldn't tell real from the biggest psyop in world history won't do any better when the next naked emperor appears on their screens.
On yet another hand, if the thought of AI realizing still images of your characters is tempting, think how cool it would be to have it render your entire novel as a feature film. No seven-year-long wrangles with studios, agents, and lawyers; no settling for your fourth choice for an actor; no interminable fights with the writers and producers over what stays in and what gets cut...You don't even have to convince a literary agent with blue hair and a bone in her nose to get your story published first. You'd execute your vision without a single compromise. What's the fall of our species compared to something that cool?
Your point is well made! I don't think it stops at text-to-video. Eventually, with robotics given human likeness, people could 3D print their characters. Text-to-print. Then things get really wild.
Real likenesses of my two boys? Do not even tempt me like that. The sequel would never get done.
AI has been in use in Hollywood since it was called computer animation.