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Minecraft is a game that needs no
introduction it has taken the gaming
World by storm since its release back in
2011.
but what makes it so special is it the
vast open world waiting to be explored
the endless possibilities of creation or
the Charming blocky Graphics that make
it so unique in this review we'll be
taking a closer look at Minecraft and
what makes it stand out in the crowded
world of video games
at its core Minecraft is a game about
survival and creativity the player is
tasked with Gathering resources such as
wood Stone and iron to craft tools and
build shelters as the player progresses
they encounter new challenges such as
dangerous mobs and the need for more
advanced resources one of the most
impressive aspects of Minecraft is the
freedom it offers the player from
building simple dirt Huts to massive
castles and intricate Redstone
attractions the possibilities
the game's procedural generation also
means that every new world is unique
with different biomes structures and
resources to discover but Minecraft
isn't just about building and exploring
the game also features a combat system
that requires the player to be strategic
and quick thinking whether it's fighting
off zombies skeletons or other monsters
players must learn how to use weapons
and armor effectively to survive five
I've I've one of the most enjoyable
aspects of Minecraft is the ability to
play with others whether it's through
local split screen or online multiplayer
players can work together to build
massive structures or engage in Epic
Battles this Cooperative element adds a
new level of depth and excitement to the
game and it's no wonder why Minecraft
has become a cultural Phenomenon with
millions of players worldwide
but perhaps the most touching aspect of
Minecraft is how it allows players to
express themselves in unique and
meaningful ways from recreating famous
landmarks to building memorials for
loved ones the game has become a
platform for Creative expression and
emotional catharsis
foreign
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feel powerless and lost Minecraft offers
a glimmer of hope and a chance to
connect with others in a profound way
in conclude
conclusion Minecraft is a game that ish
boat fund and inspiring it offers
endless possibilities for to creativity
and exploration while also reminding us
of uh the um
the uh the importance of a [ __ ] uh the
impotence of community and sophex
question whether you're a seasoned
player or new to the game Minecraft is
an experience that every pony should try
at least once help help help
chat GPT wrote that video and decided
what it would look like sorry the
performance isn't great and the writing
is boring but passable for a totally
inoffensive middle of the road game
summary machine learning exploded in
popularity in the last year or so with a
flood of generated art music and text
that you're probably already sick of
while the games industry is just getting
started and people are using AI for
everything from art to programming to
animation to brainwashing you into
paying for microtransactions big
companies and independents alike are
jumping head first into a world of bad
writing and melted popsicle art this
video is a survey of the rapidly
expanding field of AI I'll discuss some
of the problems it's creating laugh at
the goofy art then get into the actual
AI apocalypse the one they're not
telling us about
but before any of that I want to
understand machine learning not from
some pundits explanation but in terms of
what these systems actually are hey Josh
I'm doing all right just dealing with
some recent house fires and other crazy
stuff how about you how's life been
treating you there are hundreds of
schemes for machine learning at this
point but neural networks are the most
popular and most of the concepts behind
neural networks apply to everything else
in the field too neural networks are
simplistic models of brains networks of
neurons a very low resolution picture of
our brains is that we take in some
stimulus say the light bouncing off a
painting then something happens in the
brain then we feel an emotion or
sensation there's an input an output and
something in the middle and that's
exactly how every beginner course
describes a neural network a layer of
input nodes one or more hidden layers
then a layer of output nodes hidden
layer is kind of a misnomer though the
hidden layers themselves aren't a black
box and tweaking them is a big part part
of developing a neural network the data
that these hidden layers produce usually
isn't meaningful to us though it's only
used by the network and that's probably
where the hidden comes in explainability
figuring out why an AI makes decisions
the way it does is a big problem in
machine learning because AI doesn't
follow a line of reasoning the way a
person would nodes are another abstract
concept there's no obvious
correspondence between a node and what
the computer is actually doing really
node just means function and then
machine learning nodes are usually
taking a vector doing something to it
and passing it on to the next layer we
could have each hidden node add up the
values of everything connected to it for
example the secret sauce is in weighing
the inputs in real brains some
connections between neurons are stronger
than others there are still lots of
questions about the human brain but the
idea is that these connections and their
strength affect our thoughts and actions
somehow since an artificial neural
network is just functions sending and
receiving numbers you can multiply each
of these by some factor to make it
bigger or smaller more or less
influential the network on screen is a
toy example but neural networks are
always made to achieve some goal let's
say our input is a picture of a letter
where the brightness of each pixel is an
input and the output is a guess for what
letter it is this is just a big pile of
math it's cool that we can make a
machine with billions of adjustment
knobs but we're not going to do all that
work by hand
thankfully neural networks can be
trained to adjust their own parameters
if I have a photo of a letter that I
know is a b then I can compare that to
what the network guesses this pair of
image and text is a piece of training
data and big networks will go through
millions or billions of them weights are
usually randomized at first so the
network will probably say the letter is
an a x p and C all at once but we can
calculate how wrong the network is and
use this to adjust the weights so it
gets a little bit better every time
if it's 20 confident that the letter B
is the letter A then we need to reduce
the weights that influence that guess
gradient descent is the piece of
statistical magic that made the AI
Revolution possible if you're on a hill
the gradient where you're standing is an
arrow or a vector pointing in the
steepest Direction following this
gradient is the fastest way to climb the
hill going backwards from the gradient
is the fastest way to go down the hill
an error function is like a hill that
represents how wrong each of our weights
is so if you take the gradient and go
backwards the network will slowly move
towards zero error in my example it gets
better at guessing letters it's a pretty
goddamn cool idea but there are no
Miracles here the concept I just
described was laid out in a paper from
1958 as a theory for how the human brain
works so it's not exactly revolutionary
but layers of interconnected nodes still
make up the structure of all those
headline grabbing AI systems we see to
day
you would hope that that example Network
the letter classifier would learn to
recognize patterns in The Strokes of
letters or at least do something
intelligible but the weights that a
neural network comes up with look just
about random and a lot of the
architecture behind today's machine
Learning Systems is based on somebody
trying something new that happens to
work sometimes you can say that they
make the whole gradient descent process
more efficient but with current setups
there's never going to be some obvious
Improvement reflected in the hidden data
itself you're never going to get a line
of reasoning from AI
famously you can use these things to
generate media like images and music
from a text description
foreign
was one of the first generative models
that made headlines it started as a
network for classifying images but they
were able to sort of run the system in
reverse and have it hallucinate
nightmarish faces in existing pictures
the original model was made for an image
recognition contest that imagenet ran in
2014. imagenet made a data set of just
under 15 million images which it doesn't
own the licenses for with new technology
the line between research and commerce
is Razer thin and big companies often
use this fact to just Manifest Destiny
whenever they want and make us live with
the consequences scraping millions of
images and sticking them in a public
data set is a huge ethical question mark
even in an academic context but once an
economy Springs up around these data
sets they're hard to get rid of this is
a lesson we've learned over and over
companies rush to Market with flooded
gas or asbestos insulation and by the
time we understand what they've done
entire swaths of the planet have brain
damage and lung cancer Google mastered
this principle with AdSense a
surveillance system that probably knows
your heart rate and body temperature
right now and will use it to sell you
some gross Coke
all right guys I got the latest from
Coca-Cola it's their legal Legends
flavor Coca-Cola ultimate there you go
here you go here you go you see ultimate
Coca-Cola you know let's go ahead and
try
Coca-Cola ultimate burnt popcorn and
coconut flavor or something like that I
was like what the heck's this it tastes
like like Hawaiian topic uh suntan
lotion and everything yeah it's got some
kind of fruity Berry flavor going
kind of tastes like uh
Coke it still just tastes like mango
Coke to me and then you melted a little
bit of that Hubba Bubba gummy inside of
it
Google's data harvesting operation
became a load-bearing piece of the
internet before the public understood
digital privacy and now we can't get rid
of it imagenet popularized scraping the
internet for training data and the
project has all the same problems that
we're dealing with now it's very biased
they stole all the pictures and they use
questionable labor practices to label
them all what if cats are hidden
what about these silly cats Amazon's
Mechanical Turk builds itself as a micro
task Marketplace a place for simple
short jobs that still require a human to
complete them I wanted to join the
program as a worker but Amazon didn't
bother approving or denying my request
the site is apparently so bad that
workers have to use a bunch of extra
scripts to actually do their jobs and
you can't get any decent work there
until you've done hundreds or thousands
of human intelligence tasks also known
as hits a platform like that was a
perfect fit for the imagenet project and
they used it to label early versions of
the data set back in 2008 or 9. they
gave workers a set of pictures and some
objects to identify workers would Mark
each picture if it contained the target
object if that sounds familiar it's
exactly like solving a captcha in fact
we've all been helping Google train its
neural networks for years these
companies have a very dubious concept of
consent and will see a lot more of that
later you literally have to help train
an AI to access many websites at least
imagenet paid the turkers but with that
said mechanical Turks Workforce does
skew toward people with no other options
Oscar Schwartz writing for IEEE Spectrum
rightly identified that M Turk is
designed to make human labor invisible
Jeff Bezos called them artificial
artificial intelligence and turkers are
described offhandedly as a horde in an
article that I read creaming itself over
imagenet
turkers were earning a median two
dollars per hour in 2018 and the
situation hasn't really changed in the
Years following these people are
invisible poor and very easy to exploit
Mechanical Turk is slavery as a service
but it was also the first of a new breed
turkus are generalists but the AI
Revolution needed Specialists appen is
one of many companies specifically
selling data labeling for machine
learning their crowdsourced labor came
mostly from Kenya and the Philippines at
first but when Venezuela's economy
collapsed they started snapping up
jobless refugees a journalist for MIT
profiled of Venezuelan app and worker
and the situation seems pretty dire
workers have no line of communication
with the company they have to be
constantly at their computers ready to
accept tasks and like Mechanical Turk
the site barely works
appen can afford to push people as hard
as they want because there's a huge
labor Supply and the workers have
nowhere else to go they congregate in
discords and write scripts to make
things tolerable because its workers are
contractors appen pays out like a slot
machine some tasks offer pennies some
don't even work and some will offer
hundreds of dollars a relative Fortune I
think a good rule of thumb is that any
company that has to write a slavery
policy is probably up to something
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most of the major players in AI seem to
disagree though appen's business is
booming
in imagenet's Heyday AI was just a
curiosity but the problems it created
were only going to get more intense over
time a Revolution was brewing but it
needed more computing power more
publicity and more technical development
just keep in mind that all the
technology I'm going to talk about can
only exist because people with nowhere
else to turn are earning pennies
churning through data
oh
we've come a long way from Deep dream in
the last decade to a new frontier of
ugly art Bland writing and buzzwords for
the consultant vampires all the popular
flavors of AI come together in video
games there's significant money and
effort in automating just about every
aspect of game development right now
it's just starting to leak into serious
projects but there's probably a lot on
the way that's without even talking
about using machine learning for
marketing Talent acquisition or any of
the other million things you can use it
for
Ubisoft who made a big bet on the
metaverse a few years ago haha developed
a tool called Ghost Rider to quickly
draft NPC dialogue considering how eager
they were to go all in on crypto this
seems like a half measure from them
although they sell this thing as a
revolution they won't even use it to
draft a major character it's just chirps
from random NPCs it helps narrative
designers and scriptwriters generate a
first draft of these barks
scriptwriters to First create a
character and a variable input an event
or situation for a character to
experience
Ghostwriter can then generate new
versions of the line depending on the
mode selected
these modes vary in style depending on
the needs of the scriptwriter
it's not even clear if Ubisoft are
training their own models Ghostwriter is
probably just an interface to speed up
the writing process it's a smart move
though small parts are about as much
responsibility as AI can handle right
now one of the only acceptable things
I've seen it produce is the texture on
this bee obviously that's not enough for
a whole game but it's a start coherence
is a big problem for these models
Facebook released a music generation
tool that sounds kind of okay for a few
seconds but if you make anything longer
than 30 seconds or so it just falls
apart the track will turn into pops and
clicks and then maybe even lapse into a
different song
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most of the AI chat Bots only remember a
couple hundred words at a time so they
can't really come back around to earlier
points in the conversation visual art
has no consistency at all and making
textures that even superficially go
together is a pretty laborious task this
inconvenient fact hasn't stopped Unity
from going all in on machine learning
hello there greets
what's your name my name is orp I'm an
interest real visitor who has come to
Earth to study and understand humans
what hairstyles would you choose if you
had hair if I had hair I would probably
go for a messy bun or ponytail looks
like [ __ ] guys keep it up
along with the weird alien they have a
chat bot and some art generators plus
people can sell AI tools on the unity
store the company's been evasive about
where its training data comes from and I
suspect they didn't really care until
people started asking questions so far
selling AI has been all about rushing to
Market and out running public opinion
avoiding the exact questions that Unity
users are starting to ask unity's AI
program is only in beta but it launched
with support for Atlas a tool that just
searches for other people's 3D models on
sketchfab they say that AI is involved
but all it does is look for models with
permissive licenses so that's about the
level of oversight you can expect from
Unity
the only real use case for Tech like
this is Expediting those awful mobile
games that rip off whatever the iPad
kids are into yeah apps good game Huggy
wuggy any Unity project less cynical
than that probably won't even make it
out of the gate nothing that AI can
produce right now is impressive or
consistent enough to hold somebody's
attention for more than a few minutes
for that reason it's kind of hard to
find games with AI generated assets
right now I keep stumbling on them so
there are probably a lot of cash grab
game developers using machine learning
but AI art is so full of bad anatomy and
garbled text that they usually try to
hide it until you pay up
currently steam's policy allows AI but
requires that you own the rights to the
training data which has led small
developers to just hide the AI generated
stuff if the AI game development
subreddit is any indication in doing
research for this video I've discovered
one of the long-term problems with AI
for myself looking through cheap games
on the switch store I often can't tell
if half the art is AI generated or just
generic the concept of Truth is sort of
breaking down in real time no one wants
to play a game full of uncanny
asymmetrical AI generated art and
programming with AI in my experience
feels like learning to write the code
myself and then patiently instructing a
five-year-old to do it for me if I still
have to read through all the standards
and documentation myself I might as well
just write the program that's without
addressing the fact that once again all
the training data that tools like chat
GPT and GitHub copilot used was scraped
oh by the the way GPT stands for
generative pre-trained Transformer
Transformers are a type of network that
Google employees came up with to
translate languages and they incorporate
something called attention which helps
the network track the context of words
in a sentence chat GPT generates one
word at a time each time picking a word
that it thinks is likely to follow in a
sentence
gpt2 gave you a spoiler warning for a
non-existent episode of Game of Thrones
at the beginning of the video because I
guess a lot of people were writing about
Game of Thrones
anyway even when these models get better
somebody who wants to make a game
without learning any skills or putting
in the effort is unlikely to finish a
project but the models will get better
there's a lot of money in AI right now
most of the new AI companies are just
leeching off of existing Tech like GPT
or Dolly but somebody out there must be
trying new structures a well-trained eye
can still differentiate AI generated
work from Human work but over time I
think the Gap will close and this stuff
will make its way into more and more
games a lot of the time if something
looks okay at a glance people won't
notice that a character has too many
fingers
with crypto there was a lot you had to
do to buy in it's expensive confusing
and really not even appealing unless you
have a few hyper-specific libertarian
values
but finishing up a game's art with
machine learning makes development
easier high on life apparently has some
AI generated voices and art made by
mid-journey Capcom is using machine
learning to assist with level design in
conclusion level design is one of the
most important in-game development but
it costs a lot
they create a
I MPC
so the known player character use
reinforced learning and unity ml agent
and Capcom uses training data to do the
reinforced learning then they make a NPC
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so you can see NPC how to play the game
and
in the back the program required how
many tabs declare for one stage and WB
Games is doing something vague at Warner
Brothers we believe in the power of
great stories and story is story
stakeholders story story story data data
data the large-scale clustered data
warehouse data data I think they're
using machine learning to collate player
feedback about their games but there's
too much corporate ease to know for sure
they're really into Data though
a few AI oriented games have released
all from small Studios or individuals
Vaudeville is a funny haha streamer game
where you try to solve a Murder by
interacting with some impressively
wooden characters what news do you have
for me detective Martini his name's
Gretzky watches
I believe your first name's Wayne isn't
it
my first name isn't Dwayne why do you
ask you can say whatever you want to
them and the dialogue responses are
generated by an AI then read out by
Microsoft Sam
yes Haley Greenwood used to perform at
the cabin Violet Cabaret theater but why
are you asking me about her do you think
she might have been involved in these
murders
this is so intriguing it's a fun idea
but language models rarely say anything
interesting and once the novelty wears
off it's just a poorly written Adventure
game AI dungeon is similar to Vaudeville
except it came out in 2019 when language
models were still spitting out wild [ __ ]
AI dungeon is nominally a role-playing
text Adventure but it plays fast and
loose with things like characters items
and areas you can type in actions and
the AI will do its best to translate
those into your chosen setting the way
these Transformer models work gives them
a very small memory so AI dungeon will
often forget details about the setting
and characters
playing the game feels like reality is
collapsing a fantasy world can shift
into an urban one without warning
sometimes you'll switch places with
another character and the game has
serious problems keeping track of goals
and items the models we have now are
very well developed and boring but a few
years ago AI was all surreal
hallucinations get you a nice Apple once
I'm inside how does that sound
oh that sounds good am I a horse Theo
Vaudeville and AI dungeon are very
gimmicky they're really just a
structured way to play with language
models Mirage Island is a little
different and much closer to how I think
this Tech will actually be used it's a
pokemon-like browser game where you get
three randomly generated monsters with
randomly generated moves AI will need a
lot of oversight to generate content but
if you need to churn out a hundred
similar items it must be tempting to
just make chat GPT do it
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foreign
there's also a new Google paper about
generative agents basically NPCs that
have emergent goals and follow a
schedule in a simulated world again it's
interesting but it's literally just 25
gpts interacting and pretending to do
everyday things at best this would give
us a fleshed out version of what they
promised with Oblivion or a way to
generate endgame content like Skyrim's
radiant quests let's take a look at the
other side of the game our new rating AI
system it allows NPCs to have full 24 7
schedules these NPCs are not scripted we
give them General goals and they figure
out on their own how to accomplish them
good morning
the NPCs also have Dynamic conversations
these are based on your actions and
what's going on in the world it's a
great way to pick up info nilos hello
actually Bethesda is a perfect candidate
for AI generated content if there are
other games or any indication players
are going to spend a lot of their 600
hours in Starfield with their brains
turned off collecting trash and shooting
space Bandits the radiant Quest system
is already hard to differentiate from
Skyrim's actual boring quests and AI
would give Todd Howard a shiny new thing
to over hype and under deliver we're
still very far from running these models
in real time though beyond the Dodge
equality and the slight chance that
it'll start dropping race science on you
the GPU requirements for AI are pretty
strict I have a 1060 and I can chat with
a medium-sized language model at around
one message per minute that's just not
good enough for a finished product
generating voices on top of dialogue
would take even longer there's some talk
of doing it in the cloud but nothing
tangible
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I think it will be hard to resist using
machine learning to speed up game
development especially once a high
profile game uses AI for something less
prominent like coding or draft
animations degenerative AI era is upon
us
the iPhone moment of AI if you will
Adobe Firefly does owl painting imagine
the space around the image that we never
captured move AI does mocap from just
video
this is on the upper right
you could you decide which one's real
this com does sketch the image Guided by
language prompt this one's really cool
there are a lot of people who know how
to sketch and from the sketch and some
guidance from your language you could
generate something photorealistic and
rendered
and this is really cool Wonder Dynamics
not only is the name of the company cool
but they do pose and lighting detection
and replace the actor with a CG
character they're just it just goes on
and on and on the generative AI era has
arrived faster development with fewer
staff is a great pitch and ethical
concerns have never stopped major
Studios before this isn't my strongest
argument against AI but my biggest worry
about generating art in any capacity is
that it takes away opportunities for
people to make interesting choices it's
really hard to pin down what makes a
piece of art good but when you create
something you're constantly making tiny
choices and I think an author's voice is
a sort of consistency and Harmony
between those choices whether or not you
think Mark rothko is a great artist you
can look at one of his paintings and
know who made it AI takes away these
choices and it substitutes them with a
weighted average of choices that have
already been made any picture made with
an AI is going to be a mishmash of other
images by its nature it can't make
anything new large language models
impressive as they may be are never
going to invent name and develop new
Concepts chat GPT can barely handle a
niche python Library the humanities are
going to be Beyond its reach no matter
how many subreddits you train it on
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hello my name is Princess Jane I would
like to show you some tricks I hope you
enjoy it
and for that reason it's not worth
talking about the Aesthetics of AI art
there's no intention behind it the
computer is just taking a text prompt
and spitting out an image that minimizes
the error and the people using AI all
think things like it'd be so [ __ ]
sick if you could see like what's next
to the Mona Lisa so there just aren't
any great minds at work here
most of it looks bad anyway the image
generation tools have leaned into
surrealism Landscapes and stylized art
but it's all the type of stuff that
comes up when you Google image search
cool desktop backgrounds there's clearly
no vision or decision making behind this
stuff even if you're willing to ignore
how melty most of it looks there are no
Aesthetics neural networks don't have a
concept of beauty to work from you have
to write things like best quality and
featured on Art station in AI prompts
because if you want something beautiful
it has to be tagged as beautiful already
but it's undeniable that the generated
art is looking better and better the
image generating models have their
limits but like chat GPT they're rapidly
getting good enough and consistent
enough that most people won't notice or
care
stable diffusion which I use to make
some of the monstrosities in this video
is capable of producing nearly
photorealistic images and an army of
4chan users have perfected anime and
furry art as well
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it's pointless to quibble over a
definition of art here because it's easy
to just reject the definition people
have debated this stuff for thousands of
years the best and brightest at Twitter
aren't going to solve it but it's
obvious that AI is not creative
some things kind of trouble me to a
certain extent I remember an adobe
representative saying
in a promotional video is we want to
make our sweetest software
make it so that
anybody with subscription can make a
blockbuster film
can do
all the effects work do all the
composite and it's just push button
well you know that would be an amazing
achievement in terms of software design
and I do think that the people that
write and design the software that we
use are
they're looming behind every painting
that we make because the imprint of the
software on the art that we make is huge
and they are geniuses that they are able
to design these things
but the homogenization of artistic
expression by more powerful software is
a concern to me
which is one reason why you know I
understand what people say you know I
liked your work when it was just the
round brushes because it's a simpler
lower order tool that has more you have
to use more of yourself to make it work
than something that is much more
powerful
so we'll eventually be able to have a
computer program that can
turn out a Norman Rockwell
yeah probably
I mean you can have them write
Symphonies that how many people will be
able to tell the difference between
somebody that analyzed all of Mozart's
work and how to do an original work by
Mozart how many people be able to tell
the difference between the composition
that the computer did and one that
Mozart did a few people but that number
is getting smaller and smaller every
year if you train a neural network to
recognize text like the example at the
beginning of the video it'll do a good
job when you give it text but if you
give it something it's never seen before
like a weird math symbol or a picture of
a dog the AI is still going to guess
what letter it is it's just a program it
can't integrate new information the way
a person could
sure you can retrain it with thousands
of dog pictures but we can hardly call
that intelligence I encountered this
exact problem when I was trying to
recognize text in some PDF files Adobe
Acrobat tries its best but it just has
to guess when it sees an equation and it
doesn't have the vocabulary to describe
stuff like this you wouldn't say that
the program is lying because it got
something wrong it just wasn't designed
to recognize math a big part of ai's
success right now is that it's easy to
use rhetorical tricks to make it seem
intelligent the name itself AI is an
obvious example
if a network can recognize words wow it
can read if a network can turn a text
prompt into a picture it's suddenly a
painter like all good Cults AI promoters
use Mysteries to sneak their ideas in
the door we don't know what the hidden
layers are doing or how the brain works
maybe these machines learn the way
brains learn so we should put billions
of dollars into stopping the AI
apocalypse we might not know exactly
what the hidden layers are doing but we
know how machine learning works and we
know what it produces so I can
comfortably say that AI is trained to
copy you give the model training data in
the hope that it will output the same
thing a human did there are setups where
you don't need labeled data like
diffusion which is what the best image
generators use but these networks are
still copying the structure of whatever
they're trained on training in AI is
just imprinting patterns from the
training data that's no small feat it
can pick up on some very complicated
patterns but it's a far cry from
creativity
by feeding it a lot of images a model
can trick you into thinking it's
creative but it really is just fitting
whatever prompt you give it to the most
likely output researchers have been able
to prompt these models to spit out their
own training data so it's clear that the
models are not synthesizing something
new the way a person could
foreign
if you ask a person to copy a painting
from memory you're not going to get a
perfect copy you'll see what stuck out
to them about the source and how they
interpreted it the copy would have that
person's aesthetic stable diffusion will
give you the exact painting and it might
give it to you in an Etsy store mock-up
proponents of AI often compare
generating images to photography but
their way out of their depth if we can
agree that machine learning models are
fundamentally uncreative then any
creativity has to come into it on The
Human Side this is like Photography they
say because a photographer did not make
whatever they're capturing but the
levers for creativity really don't exist
with AI you can change the prompt and
some parameters to regenerate the
picture or use in-painting to regenerate
part of a picture but you have no
precise way to control what gets
produced Beyond suggestions a
photographer is capturing a given thing
a natural scene or some live event but
they have precise control of position
Focus focal length white balance color
balance lens characteristics and really
an uncountable number of other factors
photos certainly have an objective
element to them but the decision to
capture a certain image and the
characteristics of that image are all up
to the artist generating a picture with
AI is guesswork and the hilarious New
Field of prompt engineering amounts to
typing in the name of an artist whose
style you want to copy or adding the
words high quality to The Prompt
researchers at Microsoft were happy to
demo their new Kodi network with prompts
like oil painting Cosmic horror painting
elegant intricate art station concept
art by Craig Mullins detailed even the
bleeding edge Tech demos have to put art
station in their prompts to make them
look good which brings us to the fact
that practically all the data sets used
in big AI projects are scraped from the
web without consent again you can do
whatever you want if you call it
research stable diffusion has an
insistent problem where the images it
generates have watermarks from the
pictures they stole
Getty Images is currently suing them
over this stable diffusion uses lion
attenuous acronym for a data set of
almost 6 billion image text pairs the
clever thing about La Aion is that it
just has links to the images so you
can't sue them for copyright
infringement model makers can download
the pictures themselves and then pivot
their research project into a business
once the model is up and running stable
diffusion also took images from
deviantART to train its model and in
response to the controversy deviantART
built diffusion right into the site so
lazy people can [ __ ] it up with ugly 500
by 500 pictures of teddy bear smoking
weed or furry on the moon detailed Andy
Warhol but worry not if somebody puts
your name in their prompt and you find
it and complain to deviantArt about it
they might take the generated image down
and you can label your art as no AI so
companies can exclude it from training
in the future if they want to it's
worrying how eagerly the people charged
with running communities will just turn
them into storefronts deviantART isn't
known for its high quality art sorry but
it always felt like a sight for art
people to hang out on the people who run
it are all but telling their users that
it's not safe to post their work there
anymore this is a whole can of worms but
the justification for this is another
Pro AI talking point machine learning is
democratizing Art there's no definition
of democracy where this makes any sense
democracy is when the government acts in
accordance with the will and best
interests of its people the production
of art is not Democratic and democracy
is totally irrelevant to it art
collectives can be run in a democratic
way but I don't see AI democratizing
blizzard Studios anytime soon they're
really just telling on themselves in the
political code that news organizations
and pundits use democracy is intimately
related to a free market something is
more democratic if it opens up new
revenue streams normal company can lay
off their illustrators and designers and
there are new opportunities to sell
computing power or services like data
labeling the Freer the market the Freer
the people as they say but taking the
argument at face value anyone who cares
about their art will automatically avoid
AI because it's hard to express your own
Vision when you have to do it through a
game of telephone I'm not going to call
myself an artist but to make these
videos I have to assemble a lot of
writing video and sound and make editing
decisions there is no world where I
write a script and then say [ __ ] it I'll
just generate the visuals any solo
developer or team that cares about its
product is not going to settle for good
game design with a bunch of melty
computer-generated art
a lot of middle-of-the-road games could
get away with AI generated content so I
think it will be pretty popular
but the few games that are unmistakably
high art the earthbounds Dark Souls and
Rain worlds are the result of a
consistent authorial Vision that
patterns their largest and smallest
features
it takes a Visionary like shigesato itoi
to coordinate the perfect harmony of
mechanics visuals writing and sound that
we got with Earthbound using AI not only
takes opportunities away from the etoys
of the world it forecloses on the
possibility of a singular Vision by
using some complicated statistics to
automatically design games by committee
the emotional climax of Earthbound is
one of the most significant artistic
achievements in the history of games I
can't spoil it in good conscience and it
can't be conveyed through video so if
you know you know the game's balance of
quirky but genuine writing the battle
system and its incredibly solid theming
are kind of subverted by a sudden shift
in tone near the end of the game but
this shift not only preserves its themes
but makes us feel them even more deeply
undertale is good but to this day
nothing has touched Earthbound often
it's designed so counter-intuitively and
written so delicately that no machine
will ever be able to touch it in a word
Earthbound is new and AI can only mix up
what has come before so if you're
interested in making good art AI is
automatically useless to you machine
learning is not democratizing art so
much as out competing it
it's not just a couple small companies
scraping training data open AI is the
big one they made GPT and Dolly some of
the most sophisticated text and image
generators out there the company's
leadership is a who's who of alleged
prescription amphetamine abusers and
alleged child blood injectors
Sam Altman the CEO is literally trying
to make New World Order conspiracy
theories real his world coin project is
scanning people's retinas to make a
blockchain-based global digital ID
system owned by the majority of humanity
or it was for about a week worldcoin was
giving Kenyan people 50 bucks in
exchange for retina scans until the
government noticed started investigating
and told them to knock it off
the story is similar in every other
country worldcoin has launched in we're
really reaching a new level of big Tech
group Goldberg machines because AI the
AI that Sam Altman's other company makes
and sells is scary to him we need a way
to identify humans and the best way to
do that is to make a database of
people's retinas which is also a bank
powered by a Ponzi scheme oh and he
threw Universal basic income in there
too
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thank you
this is all to say that open ai's people
have been drinking the Silicon Valley
Kool-Aid for a long time this might come
as a shock but open AI started as a
non-profit research organization and
then pivoted once they realized they
could make money we started as a
non-profit we learned early on that we
were going to need far more Capital than
we were able to raise as a non-profit
our nonprofit is still fully in charge
everything else flows to the nonprofit
and the non-profit is like in voting
control lets us make a bunch of
non-standard decisions
um can cancel Equity can do a whole
bunch of other things can ironically
very little of their work is open
another Shock open AI steals all its
training data there are no laws about
this yet so they don't have to tell us
where the dolly images came from but no
licensed data sets actually exist so
it's a pretty safe bet that they just
took billions of images GPT is the same
deal with text openai just crawled the
internet collecting text to train its
model with or used an existing data set
like common crawl they're actually
ramping up to do this again so if you
have a website and you don't want open
AI to have your website please put these
lines in your robot.txt the problem with
any pushback against stolen training
data is that the theft already happened
there are billions of images sitting on
these people's hard drives already and
adding a no AI tag to your deviantART
isn't going to change that I'm out of my
depth here but I also seriously doubt
that training on copyrighted data will
become illegal at a very basic level I
think a judge will see a generated image
and think what most of us did the AI
just made a picture even in the best
case scenario the law will only rush to
enforce copyright when it's some billion
dollar company being infringed upon and
even then people will always find a way
to access digital files a solo artist
without the resources to recognize or
prosecute copyright infringement
couldn't really do anything to protect
their work even if there was some legal
framework in place
the outputs from machine learning
systems are another matter AI hasn't
really been litigated yet but there have
been some relevant fights over the
patents and copyrights of AI generated
work a judge decided that an AI could
not be the author of a patent but
whether a person could patent an AI
assisted invention is beyond the scope
of that case as far as I know three
people have tried to copyright AI
generated art Jason Allen who won an art
competition with his piece
Stephen taller the same guy who tried to
make his AI a patent author and Chris
castanova all three were denied and the
U.S copyright office is very clear that
they did not make the artwork a computer
did in cash to Nova's case she was
trying to protect a comic and the
copyright office decided that the text
and layout the stuff she actually did
herself was protected while the artwork
was not
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the copyright office even makes the
argument that AI generated art is like
commissioning an artist stating that
castanova wouldn't be the author if she
paid somebody else to draw
a holographic elderly white woman named
Raya Raya is having curly hair and she
is inside a spaceship Star Trek
spaceship Reya is a hologram octane
render cinematic hyper detailed Unreal
Engine but really there's a lot of money
behind AI art and there are no
definitive rulings or laws about it yet
all things considered a letter from the
copyright office doesn't carry a ton of
weight pretty much every big company
stands to profit from making AI
generated works copyrightable and if
Disney is any indication it's well
within their means to just change
American copyright law even if that
doesn't happen they can just lie AI
generated visual art is obvious but text
code animation and design drafts are
easy to pass off as human so long as you
get human to edit them AI is literally
incapable of meeting the level of
creativity required for a copyright but
since AI art sometimes kind of looks new
I think the law will decide that AI is
creative the US government is thinking
about putting laws in place around AI
specifically but there's nothing
concrete yet and it's all shrouded in
political nonsense language anyway
direct regulation would be way more
effective than copyright updates for
reasons I've discussed in the past this
stuff has put us in a situation where
there are really no good answers machine
learning is broadly useful but
generative AI could set the whole field
back if it gets regulated there are
projects to Watermark generated images
but they're all run by AI companies who
want to filter AI images out of their
data sets imagine cooking something and
there are no nutrition labels now
imagine the same but for your digital
Creations wouldn't be dope to have all
the info readily available and protected
for everything you create
at the same time companies like openai
are putting tons of money into
destabilizing and potentially killing
off swaths of art writing and design
jobs a good chunk of people who hire
designers have no taste and think they
could do the job better anyway now they
can tell an AI to make the Logo Pop and
it won't laugh awkwardly and ignore them
somebody who needs a stock photo to put
at the top of their blog post could
license a picture or just spit out a 100
free landscape for mid-journey with a
little effort you can even get free
pictures of your fursona
people tend to follow the path of least
resistance having strong values and
well-articulated opinions about subjects
like this is a privileged position to be
in people use these tools without
knowing how they came to be or what they
represent there's a good chance slave
labor was involved somewhere in making
your phone so we have no standing to
morally judge people using AI
on average convenience always wins
crying consumerism is bad has never
worked the companies behind this stuff
are the enemy the individuals promoting
it are just useful idiots who you
shouldn't waste energy arguing with
AI bias is another major talking point
right now since models pick up and copy
patterns in their training data they're
also very sensitive to those patterns a
model meant to label things and images
might throw out racist labels either
because it was only fed images of white
people or because the training data was
labeled by biased people imagenet the
first Big Image data set what is hidden
what about these silly curves filed
bisexual people under the category of
sensualist alongside [ __ ] and
pagans whatever you think about that
structuring the data this way is
somebody's judgment not an objective
scientific taxonomy a couple of artists
had the idea to expose this bias by
letting people classify themselves with
imagenet and it was so good at being
racist that the people who compiled the
data set went into crisis mode and
deleted half a million images more
recently open AI has neutered chat GPT
more and more to hide its biases from
users often when they announce that chat
GPT is less biased they haven't actually
changed the data set or the model
structure they're just getting between
you and the AI to avoid bad press I mean
to protect users they can add extra
words before or after whatever you type
to condition the bot's response or
detect messages that they deem
inappropriate and send the AI a
different prompt altogether
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everything we make is ultimately going
to be shaped by the world we live in and
that's doubly true for vague words and
Concepts since AI is not intelligent it
necessarily reflects the people who made
it more diverse data sets might
eliminate bias if you're using AI to do
medical diagnosis or something what if
you're doing medical research you you
give your machine learning program a
hundred thousand images of like from
MRIs of like people's lungs and you're
like some of these have tuberculosis
some of these don't and what you can do
is see if the computer gets better at
diagnosing tuberculosis from an MRI than
doctors are and what do you know they've
done that and the computers are better
great
so now if you're researching how
symptoms of tuberculosis develop so you
can start diagnosing it earlier you can
try to figure out the pattern that this
machine learning program is finding like
how exactly is it making this diagnosis
now this is very hard remember you can't
ask the program like why did you make
this decision and it gets even harder
when you do your neural networks and
your deep learning and all that stuff
through a lot of a b testing putting up
two images that are almost identical the
doctors were able to figure out how the
computer program was identifying
tuberculosis more often than human
doctors and
it turns out that the machine learning
program was awaiting the age of the
machine that took the image so if it was
an older machine it would say that it's
more likely to be tuberculosis but for a
model like GPT all of the training data
is inherently biased taking the average
bias of all writing will just give you
the most popular biases there's no magic
here energy is conserved and you cannot
get unbiased data from biased people I
hope that I've made this technology look
like what it is a bunch of very capable
systems to recognize patterns AI is not
intelligent and the only real plan that
the machine learning companies have is
to scrape more data and make even bigger
models with the belief that they'll
somehow hit a critical mass then the
computer will finally awaken and fall in
love with them when we saw your initial
feedback in the communities we realized
how important romantic relationships
with AI can be for emotional well-being
and decided that we should build a
dedicated app for that there's been an
explosion of worried experts warning the
public that AI is going to become
Sapient and do something unspecified but
really bad this is magical thinking just
a bunch of self-proclaimed rationalists
working themselves up over nothing but
it is weird that all these non-profits
sprung up to scare us about ai's
sentience
one of their key words is alignment
which has a lot of definitions open AI
says it's the process of bringing AI
into alignment with human values or at
its most extreme making sure the super
intelligence can't kill people it's kind
of hard to take open ai's writing on
safety and Alignment seriously because
they talk about courageously and
good-heartedly solving a bunch of
problems that not only did they just
make up but which they're working very
hard to create with their technology
in practice alignment has been done by
humans reviewing the outputs from AI
systems and judging whether they've
adequately achieved their goals or not
it's a reasonable approach but I can see
it turning into the same sort of
nightmare job as content moderation
especially if you're aligning an AI to
attack the right sort of people with a
drone since AI is apparently going to be
smarter than humans now open AI proposes
that another machine learning system
does the alignment for us companies love
the just keep adding [ __ ] approach we
can have an AI train the AI that aligns
the other AI
whatever the people involved think
they're doing they're acting as a smoke
screen selling sentience or super
intelligence as the main risk of AI
diverts attention from how machine
learning is being used and it positions
AI as a force of nature it's already
making objective judgments it's already
intelligent but we need a lot of money
to stop it from doing sci-fi novel
things
super intelligence is the scary part but
it sneaks in the premise that these
models are capable of making objective
judgments or at the very least informed
judgments the real purpose of alignment
is to make AI better at performing these
judgments researchers at MIT give a
three-part definition of alignment AI
should produce accurate outcomes
consistently achieve its goals and
produce value for stakeholders
stakeholder value is when you pay
shareholders and pretend to help the
environment in the article I'm
referencing they discuss the Australian
tax office who deployed AI to analyze
people's claims as they filled them out
and nudge them toward productive claim
behaviors in their words paying taxes is
cool and all but the ability to define a
productive behavior and use a neural
network to quietly nudge users toward it
is worrying it's not imperative that the
AI be truly intelligent behavioral
nudging has been in the works for all of
the 21st century the brainchild of BF
Skinner and the entrepreneurs that
practice his ideas nudging is about
making the incentives that drive you
toward one choice or another
frictionless and invisible or preying on
your animal brain hunger horniness fear
on the internet we have recommendation
algorithms the invisible force that
decides what order you see Tweets in or
what massive video videos show up on
your YouTube homepage these are tuned in
such a way that the maximum number of
people will become addicted to looking
at these platforms but neural networks
allow for a system that nudges you not
just an average of people with similar
interests to you but perfect
recommendations based on the specific
things you've engaged with in the past
YouTube's been doing this for years so
in this particular domain we're already
living in the future human is important
word there that's because you YouTube
algorithm is all about helping humans
find the most relevant content as easily
as possible YouTube's entire goal is to
increase human retention
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yeah
socialism and has history not taught us
enough I think that's a good description
the activist furries have taken over Pop
Culture oh it's
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Romans
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thank you
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what a coincidence you've scrawled upon
this short what's even more of a
coincidence is how this video was
sponsored by call of dragons call of
dragons is a multiplayer Fantasy game
that is available both on mobile and it
combines it doesn't sound that bad but
this sort of thinking culminates in the
elimination of choice where everything
is reduced to a tick-tock-like stream
that plugs you directly into the
algorithm YouTube is pushing shorts for
a reason designing this way drives
engagement and in turn ad Revenue
experience of escapism
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we won't know what this does to
somebody's psyche for another decade or
so but for me the fun of being online
has always been about search and
Discovery now sites like YouTube are
taking away the few tools I had to find
new stuff they briefly removed the
option to sort a Channel's videos by
oldest first and search is a mishmash of
actual results and useless
recommendations
when we use contemporary technology
trail of information is created in the
form of data
when analyzed it describes our actions
decisions preferences movement and
relationships thank you
Ledger of our data may be considered a
lamakian effigina constantly evolving
representation of who we are what if the
Ledger could be given a volition or
purpose rather than simply acting as an
historical reference what if we focused
on creating a richer Ledger by
introducing more sources of information
what if we thought of ourselves not as
the owners of this information but as
custodians transient carriers or
caretakers
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all right
imagine
if everyone in the world
simultaneously was a little more playful
and a little more delighted
the people who make AI systems have a
very simple theory of mind they think
more intelligence means more objectivity
it's obvious if you read anything they
write and they're happy to treat us like
stupid animals because they think that
if you can be manipulated you deserve to
be everything is getting dumber and
thinner slowly being instrumentalized to
just keep you on the tick tock treadmill
or the Diablo Immortal treadmill without
producing any Sensations or thoughts
while we're here hey other people who
make videos if you have nothing to say
about a topic you can just make a video
about something else you don't have to
waste hundreds of hours in editing to
say that you play the game from five
years ago and it's so liminal wow you
beat Dark Souls with a straight sword is
that even freaking possible cool
challenge run better see if hellofresh
wants to pay for it you should try this
y-hander next you can tell us why it's
such a Hidden Gem this is a good video
the intro is a little too long but the
guy did an interesting experiment and
actually shared some useful reflex
actions on the experience of playing
ikaruga every day which most people
haven't done it has less than a thousand
views this is a good video an exhaustive
history of Nintendo that actually has
enough information to justify its run
time
it has less than a thousand views I
don't care about the garden of ban ban
Iceberg if you have nothing interesting
to say about it I know this is a pretty
edgy opinion but anything that makes you
stop and think runs counter to what the
content businesses want they want to
monopolize your time and just like a
slot machine the best way to do that is
to keep the screen throbbing with noise
and Light
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winning the game or learning something
about a subject or another person stops
being the goal eventually even fun
becomes secondary to the rhythm of
dopamine release slot players don't like
winning it breaks the Rhythm the real AI
apocalypse is this hand in glove
relationship that's emerging between us
and the systems that control us a
perfect recommendation algorithm can
pinpoint every potential whale and it
will also make the average person waste
more time and energy on the pointless
dopamine drip of content AI alignment is
really about aligning AI to better
exploit us the threat of super
intelligence is just a cover other than
the content itself getting Dumber AI
driven engagement is a way to claw away
more time from your actual unmediated
unmonetized life and there's an analog
to this recommendation algorithm example
in practically every industry
foreign
with silly videos the stakes are
relatively low but police are using AI
as an element of predictive policing
they want to know where crimes will
happen before they happen I don't know
if you've seen the news in the last 100
years or so but the police have some
bias problems and any analysis tool they
use will reproduce those problems the
FBI's bread and butter these days is
grooming mentally ill people to become
terrorists or drug dealers just so they
can arrest them predictive policing is a
way to divert blame onto an algorithm
instead of an officer or institution
it's a way to manufacture objective
judgments there's no arguing with a
robot Shield AI develops machine
learning for police drones and fighter
jets they make software to kill and
terrorize innocent people but still
found a way to valorize themselves on
their hip AF Tech startup website Shield
works with the Department of Defense and
they've partnered with other military AI
companies drone manufacturers and even
big dogs like Northrop Grumman insurance
companies want to start live updating
your premiums using surveillance data
and there's a good chance they'll use AI
to make those decisions you have to have
insurance they have access to the
sensors in all your devices and
behaviors that they decide are unhealthy
can be punished with higher premiums our
clients want Solutions centered around
humans that will boost their
productivity rather than replace them I
believe companies should focus on a few
golden applications vertical
Transformations things that really scale
and create value fast in customer
service where 30 to 35 percent of people
are searching and classifying documented
knowledge We Believe gen AI could reduce
costs by 50 to 60 percent in claims
where genei can not only augment
information but also write a settlement
offered to customers in two minutes in
underwriting by analyzing customer needs
to create hyper personalized coverage
sorry you got depressed and ate too much
ice cream sorry your brother lost his
finger off with the table saw and you've
sped to the hospital but you'd better
get a second job if you want to keep
your car AI allows companies to make
more complicated inferences about you
from the data they're already collecting
deviations from the norm aren't hard to
see but with AI they can figure out
exactly what you're up to and put a
price on it in a free market when
something bad happens to you you have to
be punished Misfortune puts you in a
position to be exploited and as every
economics 101 textbook says a market in
equilibrium leaves no unexploited
opportunities for individuals
so some individual and companies are
people will swoop in to exploit you
tragedies are expensive all the
squabbles about chat GPT and art theft
are an important but relatively small
part of the AI conversation the
creativity argument is one that the
machine learning companies can afford to
lose so long as they're allowed to keep
deploying their systems rationality is
one of our big Collective values right
making arbitrary decisions about
somebody's welfare is frowned upon and
since we don't really have any
Traditions to defer to we have to come
up with reasons for things
people hate insurance companies and the
police because they often just show up
and make your life worse AI offers two
things more exploitation and a veneer of
objectivity
until now people have had to make
difficult complex decisions but a neural
network is an empty shell that will give
you a decision if you feed it data it
works much faster than a person and it's
easy to argue that the decision is
perfectly rational a computer made it if
your insurance is automated pricing
decisions seem objective and the
contract can be revised in real time
everything is stuffed with sensors now
and data is already being collected and
sold it has been for years so there's a
constantly updating profile of your
behavior and a neural network can use it
to more perfectly screw you things had
to develop this way because stock prices
have to go up Insurance adjustment must
go from slow messy and human to this
frictionless process that is always
happening a kind of stock ticker on the
value of your life as we run out of new
sources of wealth all the slack has to
get taken out of the existing ones
because the number has to go up
there are a dizzying number of
applications for AI most of it won't pan
out but some of it will memorable is one
of the many ad tech companies using AI
to make commercials as obnoxious as
possible they think they've got a model
that can score ads on their memorability
so look forward to having a hundred
thousand sugary Jingles lodged in your
brain Yoda won a mobile game publisher
came up with a bot that would identify
potential whales playing their games
ahead of their Solutions team at the
time Chris dasman probably ran that
project he also built Yodo and AI to
recommend microtransactions
to really hook somebody you have to
recommend the right item at the right
time today Dawson runs another machine
learning ad tech company
dicer.ai AI can also churn out horrible
articles to clog your Google searches
and it can probably do search engine
optimization better than a person Google
will become even worse to compensate for
this they're pretty much giving up on
web search altogether and just using AI
to answer whatever question you have the
dream of the internet all the world's
information at your fingertips has been
completely swallowed by companies like
Google the world's information is at
their fingertips and you can maybe get
some of it through an automated chat bot
which is free for now but they can
charge you if the stock price ever goes
down
AI has genuine uses the same way the
blockchain does AI actually has a ton of
genuine uses blockchain could be useful
for physical Goods tracking or something
and AI can be really useful if it has
some kind of supervision it could
automate a lot of busy work but right
now the trajectory we're on is using it
to dehumanize everyone even further the
irony that we're automating the
production of art instead of the jobs
everybody hates shouldn't be lost on us
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there's also a trend of AI friends and
companions which is very sad you can
write a character for these Bots to play
and it will keep that description in its
attention to kind of role play with you
porn is obviously the main use for this
and it's pretty much a perfect storm for
Gaming's core audience of horny lonely
people with high-end graphics cards the
League of Legends community may never
recover but if you stay in these AI
communities for a while you're bound to
see people who just want somebody to
talk to
people are getting lonelier and it's not
really being addressed by anybody in
power apps like replica that use GPT to
give you a pretend friend or girlfriend
are a market solution for loneliness
replica got popular as a sort of AI
therapy tool which is sad in a different
way but it quickly devolved into making
people pay to sext with their robot
friends these Band-Aids don't work we
know that the bonds of Community are
what make life worth living everybody
knows that but we simply have no way to
address the crisis of loneliness because
those real relationships everybody wants
cannot be transactional and they're
harder and harder to sustain in a world
where everything is shoved into a
financial mold every little incursion by
an advertising firm OR tech company eats
into our space to live unmediated lives
social media is an obvious example an
attempt to turn conversations into a
market for attention
I want to celebrate machine learning the
potential in it is incredible I want the
AI assistant that can recommend papers
to read and games to play I like the
goofy AI generated voice videos even if
they're ethically questionable and
gimmicky I even want to play AI dungeon
if they make it weird and free again but
everything we make is conditioned by the
world so every AI project has a tumor in
its heart these tools don't exist so
that we can make better things or speed
up work they make minimum viable
products with minimum supervision
they're going to scan every actor's face
and voice so nothing new can ever be
made again and the computer will write
all the scripts too every game can be a
totally personalized Skinner box
modifying itself with a live feed of
your pupil dilation the Bangladeshi guy
delivering your McDonald's will have his
pay docked if he walks too slow we
already have that one a lot of this
won't happen but if entertainment
companies move fast enough that AI
generated movies for example are the
only movies it doesn't really matter if
they're bad bad compared to what is it
too corny to ask that the self-appointed
saviors of humanity at open AI work
toward ennobling Humanity a little bit I
don't care about Mars I want my friends
and family to have the security to live
good lives and a safe quiet place to do
it in if that is too much to ask then
why are we subsidizing these people's
programming projects I try not to dump a
bunch of nihilistic [ __ ] on you at
the end of my videos I'd much rather
piss you off really think about how many
struggles in your life and the lives of
people around you have been caused by
Silicon Valley how many Industries
they've destroyed while patting
themselves on the back about disruption
how many people they've forced into
unjust work contracts how many kids
they've given Eating Disorders how much
of our Collective wealth and time
they've wasted on gimmicky social media
apps that shut down after a year even if
you're heartless we can all see that the
big Tech model is massively inefficient
we could do so much if these morons
weren't so powerful they deserve to at
least be scared when you start saying
stuff like this people come out of the
woodwork to randomly tell you that the
Soviet model didn't work an alien system
from a society we don't live in from a
Time long past is only relevant if you
think politics is an RPG where you have
to pick a class it's actually the
process of advocating and fighting for
what we want so I don't really care what
the solution calls itself but we're at a
point where we need to choose between
building a world for money to live in or
a world for people to live in you don't
need political science or some
complicated Theory or some Dogma to see
that profits have to grow and we're out
of room
however on the whole I think the
prognosis is good organized labor came
back with a vengeance during the
pandemic and although there are some
shitty unions out there it's been a long
time since people have had access to
institutions that are actually on their
side union membership is low right now
it's been shrinking in the U.S for
decades but a few more high-profile
victories could turn the tide no one
said a word when these CEOs gave
themselves 40 increases over the last
four years but when workers ask for
their fair share all of a sudden you
know it's a it's a huge problem life is
going to get worse but the thing is that
by making living unbearable Mega
corporations and their buddies in
government create conditions that force
people to organize and fight back it's
not good that we're barreling toward a
hundred crises at once but we're here
anyway and people are really starting to
feel it it's easy to say things like
well the automatic Loom took a lot of
jobs too but workers have fewer and
fewer places to go so of course they're
going to resist machine learning AI is
cool but we can't just discard millions
of displaced humans like their old toys
the ongoing wga and sag strikes are very
high profile and AI is one of the
Union's Central concerns the vast
majority of our members are fighting to
make a career they're fighting to pay
their rent and to take care of their
families the majority of our members
don't make enough money to qualify for
health insurance in a given year under
our own plan which is twenty six
thousand five hundred dollars
approximately the fact is from the very
beginning we've said we're not here to
block AI what we are here to do is put
guard rails in that make sure that our
members won't be abused by this process
and that they'll still have careers
three years from now people are starting
to ReDiscover the power of organization
and to strike for better contracts is
also a statement of values the AI
Revolution we're getting now is the one
that gamifies life it's a way to enact
totally rigid systems with a bunch of
esoteric rules that Doles out reward
punishments from The Ether it's
arbitrary and it doesn't afford US any
unstructured time or bad behavior its
world is one where you're bound by a
million invisible contracts that are
constantly rewriting themselves pulling
you to and fro unconsciously or with
explicit threats and these contracts are
driven by the same Market logic that
puked pregnant Elsa Spider-Man videos
into our Collective psyche but as always
things don't have to be this way there's
a time for games and a time for Life
open AI isn't going to draw that line so
it falls to us
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thank you
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