OTOH people who aren't in the entertainment industry will use generative AI to make original films they otherwise never would have been able to. It seems like a great tool for individual creators who aren't able to produce images by themselves. Yes, they won't hire artists to do this, but they wouldn't have anyway, and we'll get to enjoy their work, which wouldn't have existed otherwise. I don't think we should demonize a very promising technology because we don't like how some people are using it.
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This is really the of stuff dystopian scifi.
A somewhat cliched saying comes to my mind when reading this article.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” [1]
Hopefully, there will eventually be pushback against this techno-feudalism and oligarchy. For what it's worth this seems to always happen in history. Ruling elites (in our case oligarchs and their promoters; the media, economists, politicians) consolidate their power and start to become disconnected from reality.
As a side note, it's funny that AI-generated videos have themes of dystopia and rebellion against the system.
It's like in Diamond Age when Nell went to visit her brother later in the book and he spent all day consuming trashy ractives.
I've tried a few times to get into Diamond Age, and every time i lose interest within the first 50 pages. Is it worth another try?
The only Stephenson book I managed to "finish" was the first two thirds of Seveneves, totally lost interest in the last third of the book too.
It gets better, but I’ve never gone back and reread it. The ending, IIRC is goofy too.
Honestly, I love his writing, but the books of his I’ve finished are Cryptonomicon, Snow Crash, Diamond Age, Zodiac, and ReamDe. The others I’ve either struggled to get into (Seveneves because the first chapter is so damn down) or just never started.
Honestly, ReamDe and Cryptonomicon are IMHO his most readable, maybe because they’re sent in the current time. Though I loved Snow Crash.
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