The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture
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- #Media Evolution
- #Artificial Intelligence
- #Cultural Impact
- ML models are cultural artifacts that encode and reproduce media, lack appropriate cultural scripts, and may create new forms of media and influence sexuality.
- Most people lack appropriate myths for AI, leading to inappropriate decisions; existing cultural references (e.g., Star Wars, Terminator) are poor analogues for LLMs, which are unpredictable and alien.
- Potential new media include ML services like ChatGPT replacing static text, with interactive 'books' or 'courses', and purpose-built models shared directly, raising concerns about corporate centralization and power.
- ML is well-suited for generating sexual fantasies, potentially displacing some porn industries, shaping sexuality through unrealistic comparisons, and enabling new liberatory fantasies and erotic subcultures.
- ML-generated images produce recognizable 'slop' aesthetics that may signify fascism, cheapness, or authenticity, and will likely be appropriated for irony, nostalgia, and subversion by future generations.