I actually have fairly strong views on robots in general, and, kinda think it might be bad when they're depicted as sentient people in fiction.
Like, might be irresponsible, since they'll never be people in real life but there're definitely rich tech people who'd want you to *think* they can be.
This isn't a recent view though, I started developing these thoughts years ago, since before AI tech started looking like it does today.
Okay so, this post I did last night was a result of a long-held opinion being bolstered considerably by thinking a lot about convincingly human-looking sex robots (and specifically AI girlfriends),
or in other words: objects with no substance, no opinions, no feelings, that are always happy to do whatever you want and have no desires of their own.
Always smiling, never wanting anything, never speaking a word that doesn't serve you.
It's bleak as fuck. And this is the future the tech billionaires want.
All your needs are met by objects. There's something so *freeing* about it, and it turns out that what's freeing about it is that there's no person at all, no connection.
All the same chemicals flood your brain when you orgasm but you don't have to do anything for *anybody*. You share nothing. She smiles the smile that she's designed to smile.
You're untethered from humanity, untethered from community, disconnected.
Okay I've reached the end of Adam Neely's video now and I disagree with his predictions, where he says that maybe people will just stop trusting recorded music altogether and only care about *live* music,
and lemme tell you, speaking as a songwriter and composer who cannot currently *play* live, who doesn't currently earn a living and whose only *shot* at earning a living is recorded music, (and who doesn't use AI and never will,)
that's shit. That's just shit. That's unacceptable.
The rest of the video's good and I do recommend it,
it's a really good breakdown of what the fuck AI music is *sociologically* and what effects it's already having on people and *will* have if the world accepts it as the "future of music" like the billionaires want.
It's a really good video *until* the predictions part.
I can't accept that recorded music is just done, that's fucked.
He likens it to theatre and cinema, where live music is theatre and AI music is cinema, but no, *recorded music* is cinema and AI slop (music) is AI slop (video).
He says the camera is the technology that differentiates theatre and cinema, and that AI might be that for live music and recorded music, but mate: the studio. What??? What are you talking about, man.
I've come up with a name for this, I dunno if it'll catch on or if a better name is possible but:
liferaft politics.
As in: "let the people who want to sink the ship sink the ship, *I'll* be fine", and either not knowing or not caring that quite a lot of people *won't* be fine. There's only a limited amount of liferafts.
We can't all play live, some of us have to rely on recorded music.
Anyway *my* prediction for AI music is that for the most part it'll be like the Metaverse (which I've just found out is now called Horizon Worlds),
in other words: a toy for a small minority of dipshits, that cost a billion dollars to make.
There'll be pop producers who use AI, like, the next gen Max Martins, that sort of person.
But most actual serious musicians will prefer doing things themselves, and if they don't self-produce they'll want to hire producers who don't use AI.
What originally prompted me to think about sex robots is that I saw a news article and found out that some of the online right have a new imaginary girlfriend:
a purple-haired ultra nationalist english girl who's never depicted as older than about 20, who originates from a UK government-backed educational game for teens intended to teach them about and protect them from online radicalisation.
They're generating AI images of this character and it's so weird, like, they're openly admitting to having an imaginary girlfriend as if it isn't the saddest thing that could possibly happen to a person.
A sex robot is an object that placates your need for connection. The purpose of a sex robot is to make you not miss having people in your life.
All this is to say: AI is for lonely dipshits who've learned to not value human connection anymore.
And I just don't think that's most people. I don't think that's many people at all.
Tech billionaires want to *make* it most people, but it *isn't* most people and I don't think they'll succeed.
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