AI is Fast Tracking and Exploiting the Human Spirit
It is rendering our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary.
With the biblical verse of creation, God had finished the work and on the seventh day he rested from all his work. The day of rest is significant because it suggests that creating something requires a certain amount of effort. There was some sort of artistic struggle that had taken place during creation.
This artistic struggle is the validating impulse that gives its intrinsic meaning of creating. The world becomes more than just an object full of other objects, rather it is infused with the vital spirit, the wonderment of creating becomes real.
ChatGPT is a chatbot that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate human-like responses to questions. It was developed by OpenAI, an independent nonprofit company. OpenAI is a multibillion-dollar investment partnership with Microsoft. I want to repeat something. A multibillion-dollar nonprofit company.
ChatGPT uses learning algorithms to analyze large amounts of data and is programmed to understand human language, both written and spoken. It uses a transformer algorithm to learn how to generate text that sounds like human conversation. It's programmed with reinforcement learning, which uses human feedback to improve its responses. It can answer questions, write poems, write essays and create social media posts. It can also sometimes produce incorrect information, harmful instructions or biased content.
AI rejects any notion of creative struggle that our accomplishments enhance or enrich our lives by giving them depth and meaning. It rejects that there is a collective and essential human spirit supporting our existence. This is what connects us all through our shared motivation.
AI is fast tracking and exploiting the human spirit by automating the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary. This is being done because it is faster and easier, but it is also being done without passion.
AI is doing nothing but participating in the erosion of the world's soul and desecrating the spirit of humanity itself. To be creative and create in any medium and be part of the sacrilege of AI, you can no longer continue to call yourself an artist.
AI contends, why bother with the artistic process? The intent is to eliminate the process of creation and its intended challenges. It is nothing more than a time-wasting inconvenience that stands in the way of the commodity itself.
We shouldn't always need to make it faster and easier. Creating with your own hands delivers a sense of accomplishment that is good. It is good because it requires something of your own self. Even though the creative act may require considerable effort, in the end, you will be contributing to a vast network that supports human existence.
Bogus AI scripts can be run through an AI voice generator, and then you get robot voices. They don't care about accuracy or quality or even originality. In our world today it is starting to become so prevalent that AI content is drowning out all the actual good content made by real people.
Right now, these channels are fairly easy to recognize. If you know what you're listening for, you can identify them. However, with the technology growing and improving so rapidly, I don't think it’s much of an exaggeration to say that by this time next year, we will not be able to decipher the difference.
There is also an additional risk with AI of having our voices cloned. Anybody can have their voice cloned. It’s become very easy. I have seen actors talking and promoting things that do not make sense that they would be talking about them. The badass heroes that are stomping out wrong in movies are now talking about erectile dysfunction. I don’t think these macho men would dive onto social media and talk about this, but our action heroes seem to be popping up everywhere with a voice that is not their own.
Not to worry too much or be afraid, but perhaps it is not a bad thought to create a secret phrase or code word to use with your family. This would be done to protect your family. With all the scamming going on today, nothing is really safe. What if you got a call from one of these defrauders claiming someone in your family has been abducted. Before you send off your life savings, spring the secret phrase to make sure it's not some swindler who's cloned their voice. This is a very real thing. It's already occurring and it's only going to get worse.
Our entire reality, pretty much every single facet of our lives, very soon is going to be inundated with artificial intelligence. The biggest issue is how we're going to evaluate information that matters. Not just in your personal life, but also about current events, the news and what's happening right now in the world. We are already starting to be fooled by AI images and it’s just going to get more corrupt.
If something doesn't happen soon to stem the tide, then in the very near future, none of us are going to be able to believe anything we see with our own two eyes or hear with our own ears. The false trickery of AI is going to be everywhere, and it'll be virtually undetectable.
At this stage of technology, I don't believe there is a fix. Right now, at best, the least we can do is be aware of this problem. The only thing we can really do is just remain vigilant. Second guess everything, do your own research, especially when it comes to the news and current events and use trusted sources. Don’t let Facebook or YouTube be your trusted news source.
There are all sorts of temptations in this world that will carve away your creative spirit. There are none more monstrous than that boundless techno machine of artistic deflation. As humans, we can feel helpless in our own smallness, yet we still find the spirit to do and make beautiful things. This is where the meaning of living life resides.
The world is often cast as a purely unkind place and people seem to thrive in the negative, but still the joy of creating exercises itself. It is this striving that becomes the very essence and meaning of being original and imaginative. This compulsion and creative dance that is now being so pessimistically undermined, must be defended at all costs. Just as we would fight any no-nonsense evil, we should fight this with all that we have. We are fighting for the very soul of who we are. – dbA
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