Tech should help us be creative. AI rips our creativity away

[usonian]

1. Technology is what people do with it.

Raise better people? Sure. None of the problems of the world will be mitigated until then.

1. People need to demand genuine experiences in life.

2. Some need to create alternatives to the current poisoned punch bowl. Remember, "social media" and "for profit newsrooms" predated the AI craze. I've posted on Hacker News about this.

3. Somewhat like #1, we have a culture that glorifies crap. A cultural change is needed. It will only happen one person at a time, exponentially? But quality people need to inspire others and dammit, need to reach out. Proof? November 28th and December 1, where people race to stores (or online), risk their lives and cars in parking lots, and identity online, for cheap crap.

4. Somewhat like #3. Creativity is in everyone to some extent, but it's beaten out of them by the need for mediocrity on the part of my four horsemen: politicians, business tycoons, so called religious leaders "No critical thinking allowed" and by their natural companion to grab power, racism, which is not a person, but which infects people from exposure to others and by the cultural need to project onto yet others.

Creatives create. They don't consume the dregs as others are needed to do.


Example: I got the FM to work better last night, and there's only one classical station available. So, this morning, there's the usual movie music program, which is usually kind of interesting. So, (highly opinionated opinion coming) it features James Horner's music. Well, I have a good ear and it all sounds the same to me, like computer generated, stuff. I feel I could get out the recorder (the instrument) and fake it and nobody would know.

Long ago, someone was bragging on how "Three Times a Lady" was "scientifically" designed to appeal. Fortunately forgotten.

And remember "America's Home Videos?". Well, it's the entire GD internet now.

Garbage in, Garbage out.

When I hear something great, I run to the piano keyboard. When I read something great, I pick up my notebook (Moleskine or clone thereof). When I pick up a great idea on the internet, I file it in the "hot" folder for a possible new invention. I am not your average Joe.

AI just facilitates this, on hyper-steroids. Will it sediment so it's of zero profit value? What happens when everything is enshittified? Will people know or care?

Who demands better than a passive existence?



The best gambling strategy is "DON'T"
The best AI strategy is to avoid it, or confine it to narrow verticals where it works (with human checking of results).
AI checker looks to be the hot job.

Just today: from pro-AI, anti-AI Hacker News
AI is the new blockchain
https://defragzone.substack.com/p/ai-is-the-new-blockchain



Blockchain, Metaverse (do ya remember metaverse?), AI

Keep the crap coming! Until people demand better.

As long as people pay for crap, crap they'll get. ...

I think of modern "culture" in terms of cat food.
Some genius saw that cats like chicken, beef and tuna.
So "LET"S MIX THEM ALL TOGETHER AND MAKE KITTY HAPPY EVERY DAY"

So, to we humans.