An exceptional piece of writing—and utterly devastating. The cynic in me is yelling “we’re all fucked! And no one realizes just how fucked we are, and will be!” No one will be able to discern Truth. Believers in propaganda and intentional-lies will only grow in number fully believing the person (people, robot) giving them their beliefs are the only “truth bearers” out there. At the end of War Games (the Matthew Broderick original), Joshua proclaims “the only winning move is not to play.” I think I’m going to stop playing—my life is exponentially happier every time I turn off my devices. But we’re still fucked.
That is my fear, but it is also true there will be countervailing forces who will not go down without a fight. They are gathering ammunition like this.https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney? I still think odds are against indie creators unless they can band together, and one thing about indie creators is, they want to do their own thing. Of course, existential threats to your living to have a way of focusing the mind, so who knows.
An exceptional piece of writing—and utterly devastating. The cynic in me is yelling “we’re all fucked! And no one realizes just how fucked we are, and will be!” No one will be able to discern Truth. Believers in propaganda and intentional-lies will only grow in number fully believing the person (people, robot) giving them their beliefs are the only “truth bearers” out there. At the end of War Games (the Matthew Broderick original), Joshua proclaims “the only winning move is not to play.” I think I’m going to stop playing—my life is exponentially happier every time I turn off my devices. But we’re still fucked.
That is my fear, but it is also true there will be countervailing forces who will not go down without a fight. They are gathering ammunition like this.https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/an-artist-fights-back-and-midjourney? I still think odds are against indie creators unless they can band together, and one thing about indie creators is, they want to do their own thing. Of course, existential threats to your living to have a way of focusing the mind, so who knows.
Hell yes. We will not go down and we will never capitulate. We will stand up for human intelligence and creativity till the end of days.
https://themuse.substack.com/p/we-are-an-auto-immune-disease