So, yeah, just so you know I'm probably going to delete my blog soon. I'll keep a copy of everything but I feel like I don't want to do this anymore. If anyone wants to stay in touch, or lurk from the background, the best place to do that would be following me on Goodreads, link is in the sidebar. You don't have to literally follow me, but if you're looking for book recommendations or you would like to know if I ever start a new blog, well most likely I'll post a link there.
Anyway, I just want to share a spontaneous insight that just occurred to me a few moments ago. I was watching this video on YouTube, and here's the screen shot.
Does that guy look 21 years old to you? Because to me he looks a lot older, definitely over 30, and probably over 40. Actually, I showed my mother a picture of that guy from a different clip, and asked her how old she thought he was, and thought he looked like he was in his 70s. Well, personally I don't think he looks that old, but he definitely looks older than 21, and he has bad skin, and am thinking he must eat a lot of pork and a lot of junk food.
It occurred to me that it could be AI generated. Now, I didn't examine it with the magnifying lens, but just so you know the level of sophistication for AI generated videos is getting better, the good ones, the highly polished ones aren't going to be showing people with six fingers and three legs. No, the good ones look very realistic, unless you zoom in, and if you've got a good eye that's where you may notice things out of place.
Anyway, the spontaneous insight occurred to me while watching this YouTube video, that maybe the primary audience for developing photorealistic AI generated videos as a consumer product is primarily the wealthy class, specifically as a means to achieve the appearance of immortality. For instance, maybe Mr. Joe Schmo who has plenty of money in the bank but has a deteriorating body wants to be a sailor, he wants to live out his dream of being Robert Redford in the movie All is Lost. Well, AI can make this happen. Maybe this dude above is actually some wealthy old man who is too old to learn to sail, so instead he has an image created in his likeness to go on all sorts of adventures at sea, and he gets to be the hero in his own movie, compliments of AI.
So, yeah, maybe AI, beyond its utilitarian function of social control, mass surveillance, and military application, is being sold as a designer drug for the wealthy elite, as a sort of virtual reality simulation occurring outside of themselves on a screen, in a movie or a game, or any other digital format.
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