The Matrix Is Almost Here
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In the industrial age, physical goods transformed from valuable hand crafted artifacts, to common manufactured items, then ultimately to mass produced disposable trash. A fork used to be crafted by silver smith and last a lifetime, now you buy 100 plastic forks for $6 and throw them away.
The same thing is true of the information age. Any type of information will be produced at ever decreasing costs, to the point where all facts are disposable.
Boomers thought it would be fine, because they mistakenly thought the information age started in the 80s with the personal computer. But the PC was the really the peak of the industrial age. Men worked in factories to produce a product, wholesaled it to a store, where you bought it and took it home - no different than buying a bolt of patterned cloth from a mechanized loom in the 1800s.
The start of a new age isn't that easy. It's painful. The true start of the information age was napster. Information costs nothing to duplicate, so why not give it to everyone for free - oh the pain that idea caused, and we're just getting started. The same pain that farmers felt when their children were scooped up and maimed in leather belt driven factories.
Intellectual property laws are going to become completely irrelevant. Music, art, code, voice, physical designs, 3D models, your own appearance - all of these will be recreated in any style for virtually no cost. And the common man will embrace this, because what has the copyright industry ever done for him.
It occurs to me that openAI has allowed these sorts of videos intentionally. They could have made a model that made cartoons, but they chose realism because that's what will bring regulation. And regulation is essentially a government granted monopoly, because the biggest players define the regulations in such a way that only they can comply. We'll probably see artificial limitations on home video cards (even more so than we already have), even after demand dies down or production catches up. But it won't last. Whether it's analog compute, photonics, or quantum, 100x performance gains will happen at some point and you just won't be able to keep the genie bottled.
Well put, but I've got an issue with line. You jumped from information to facts. Information will be worthless and disposable, but most of it won't be facts. Discerning fact will become very difficult and that leads down two possible roads:
And while I'd like to think #1 is preferable, it's going to be used as a powerful tool for social control. That environment just begs for a Ministry of
TruthFacts.There will be a Centre of AI Forensics.
The State will determine which AI videos are fake and which "facts" are "true".
They will use this to do exactly as you say -- enact more oppressive social control.
State detractors can be placed in doctored videos and the COAIF can determine that those doctored videos are the "truth" to smear their name.
We've seen this happen already to a lesser extent in Canada with the truckers protest.
No one is going to believe anything they don't want to believe. I've had multiple encounters where I have confronted people with video evidence of an uncomfortable fact and they simply chose to see something else - in normie land even, not just on schizo sites like this. AI is going to make this behavior even easier.
And just imagine you're a kid growing up now, videos and photos that depict real events will be something you hear about from people with gray hair. You'll have no frame of reference to judge factuality.
Every day we get a little bit closer to my dream of finally being able to bang the mom from Goof Troop.
Lol give it like five years and we'll have entire shows and movies with shit like this