This is way more doomer than it needs to be. Fun fact, bookstores in the UK are booming, with some stores reporting over 100% increase in profits - because people are getting bored of social media, rubbing their eyes and going out to physical bookstores as an alternative. There's also a growing movement of young kids choosing 'dumb phones' over smart phones.
We humans have a habit of thinking our particular slice of time is in some particular spotlight; social media has ruined us, AI will take over all art and destroy the human soul. It's the same fallacious thinking that had us believe the geocentric model of the solar system.
For all we know, 20 years from now all social media has shut down due to lack of demand. We're already seeing whispers of AI stocks crashing and burning as the bubble bursts.
The best world is the offline world. I've often thought there will be a kind of Time Machine dichotomy of humans in the near future; those who get fully absorbed into the online way of life and become the Morlocks, although ultimately they extinct themselves by way of not breeding with one another.
The others, the Eloi decided to go outside and get some sunlight, raise a family and play in the streams and rivers, only seeing a weird, blue glow of electricity in the distance where all the millions of drooling morlocks stare at phones until their skin falls off their bones, all the while thinking they are the centre of the solar system.
AI may or may not be here to stay, but who gives a damn when you're not reading the news, not aware of who's at war with whom, and not interested in what strangers have to say about you and your family?
If that's your takeaway, that's your takeaway.
There's more to the internet than that.
For example: Books exist on the internet.
My point is simply that the internet is an uncontrolled, ridiculous and toxic place where we believe, in the deepest core of our hearts, that it matters. But it just doesn't.
I remember years ago I went hiking in the himalayas for a month. Had zero internet connection for that entire month - except for a brief stint where I found a random dial up old computer in a village at the halfway point. I sat down, told my mum I was still alive, and then... couldn't find a single reason to stay online. I logged off and headed out in under 5 minutes.
I was miserable returning to a situation where I had to wean myself back online, for sure.
In general, I guess this was mostly about technology interfering with the arts. I offered examples affecting both the pros and myself.
That includes books. Science papers. You name it. And I'm fascinated with how this tech protects the source in a decentralized manner.
There's more. For example:
Searching is being replaced and more are turning to chatbots. The chatbot doesn't know about that new discovery, until someone publishes it. Now if someone didn't want the world to know there's life on another planet for example, simply wipe that from AI's mind.
Publish that information here and ask a chatbot trained on this network, and nobody can mess with the answers.
I know the world outside exists. I also know a lot of our history has been lost. Yeah there's an ugly side to online life but look what this tech can do for the future.
Unfortunately right now, the future will know when Hive Power Up Day was. And maybe where you went on vacation. Or that time I tried to point out the benefits of this tech before it was too late lol.
I had a more direct response to this but I went off on a tangent like I always do - my bad.
My unwritten point was basically that people already follow the personalities behind the art and that's how it should be. Nobody gets excited about an algorithm dealing with the struggles of the 'human' experience.
If anything, AI is going to force us to shine. I scroll through Facebook these days and see impossible animations and incredible art. I don't even stop my scrolling under the assumption it's just AI. Everyone else is doing the same. There's going to be a point where people just switch off and turn to art being created on the streets in front of their faces.
I know the online world would ultimately be a healthier and trustworthy place if it was built with more of a hive-like emphasis, but there's so many problems with the concept of a mainstream Hive it's probably just not worth it.
It's common for me to do the same. Tangent land. No worries.
And I agree. The abundance of AI generated content is acting more like a shiny trinket keeping people glued to the sites and that's money for the site.
Here that doesn't quite work. In my view this platform has always been more like the streets. In the early days, once I started to feel like a busker with my content, people took notice. Always carried that mindset with me. This was the closest thing on internet, to that experience. Combined with streaming, could come even closer. Combined with several here just for the show, being present and dropping votes rather than this crypto mining strategy, we're damn near there. But I could talk about this stuff for days and go nowhere. I still think it's worth it. Sucks being the only one. lol
What mainstream is and what mainstream could be, don't have to be the same. Always said, "The easiest way to stay behind is to follow trends." We're ahead of the curve in many ways. Holding ourselves back in many ways as well.
That's a pretty cool concept actually
I think it could be worth it if its expansion is done right but as it is right now I just have too many concerns. It's still not immune to any hostile takeovers, and what about more social issues like, for example, a young teen posts something edgy that borders or even passes into criminal activity (incitement etc), because they're young and stupid.
They're now stuck with that accessible with a simple search, for the rest of their lives. I worry about what kind of social implications that has. Pedo networks would have a glorious time.
I suppose if we were not holding ourselves back, as you say, we could figure these things out, maybe
Yeah so here I was thinking of just an artist performing live. Service providers still have to be responsible so yes, prepare in advance. Industry standards still apply. Same with laws.
The text is what's engraved into the chain. Nothing else. Post is titled Bring in the Thinkers for a reason. Not Bring in the Idiots. And downvotes have always been a good tool to help prevent anyone profiting from illegal activities.