So in 2018 I read this article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/realitys-end/556877/
Everyone around me thought I was crazy and we were 20 to 30 years away from anything like this. At the time I figured 5 years until we had perfect video based on how fast things were progressing. I was off by a couple years but here we are.
I feel like I’m in a car heading towards a brick wall and the driver is not paying attention. I tried creating a YouTube channel but I’m not great with that kind of thing. I feel like only now a few of my friends are starting to listen to but honestly I’ve been waiting for this for the last 7 years for this and with Veo 3 we are here. That’s it from today on we can’t believe anything we see on the news. We can’t react to things without digging in and researching and we still can’t know what is real and what isn’t. I’m not wrong no matter what anyone says. Anyway just sitting here feeling shock. This goes beyond the article but the article was way ahead of its time.
Is anyone else freaked out to to the point of paralization?
byu/Historical-Willow529 inFuturology
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The unfortunate truth is that that vast majority of people will not care as long as it provides them with more content that they can mindlessly consume.
I’m not quite paralyzed with fear, but I have become disillusioned with almost the entirety of the internet. I work in a tech-based job now which was my dream in my twenties, but now I want to get out and open a small retail store somewhere, or make a living investing in real estate or something.
We’re on a floating rock in space and we’re all probably gonna be dead in 100 years. I’m excited for hyper realistic VR porn of anyone I want.
It’s incredibly normal to be concerned about this. However, you are talking about being “paralyzed” and “shocked” and seem to have an overwhelming need to talk about it to people. It honestly sounds like an anxiety problem. Humans have always had a problem with discerning reality, the historical Buddha talked about it 2600 years ago. I’m not trying to invalidate your concern, but you are allowing it to make you suffer in a very unnecessary way. You may even push away loved ones if you talk about it obsessively.
There is no point in worrying about it, let it crash and lets see what we get in the end
Was only a few years ago people were laughing at the bad A.I. art that couldn’t do hands or was painfully obvious but look at it now, a lot of people can’t tell the difference. The A.I. videos are shockingly competent and only getting better. I don’t suspect we’ll be watching much human created content within the next 10 years.
It’s fun to think that people won’t stand for this and we’ll all rise up and demand art be saved, but I believe the truth is that content demand will outweigh the desire for authenticity.
As a policy, I do not “freak out to the point of paralyzation”
In your own title, you can see that there’s a reason why “to” and “too” are written differently. They are two different words.
>we can’t believe anything we see on the news
That was always true.
Humanity didn’t have video at all for a hundred thousand years. We got along okay.
And even in the century it’s existed, video has always been manipulable. Everything from the blatant – CGI or actors – to the subtle, using camera angles, framing, and choosing what to focus on and what to ignore.
If this got you to start researching things instead of just trusting them, that’s good. Figure out which sources are consistently reliable. Figure out which ones aren’t.
I certainly believe less (or after the Biden fiasco NONE) of the MSM on all sides and tend to go towards independent sources.
This doesn’t stop you living your day to day life, don’t use this as a reason to be paralysed.
I’m not freaked out, I’m just disappointed. I’m an older Millenial, mid 80s. Grew up with barely a family computer because it just wasn’t a thing to have a dedicated personal computer for an individual until the early 00’s. The internet was so small back then and I remember waiting several minutes just to load a picture. Then the wild west of content creation and information collection people did. There was no massive aggregate content farms, just a bunch of hobby sites and angel fire/geocities/etc.. Then the social phase began which as a high-anxiety introvert I, thankfully, never bought into. But now – *now -* we’ve come full-circle. The information isn’t real if not deliberately presenting false information. People are no longer genuine and everybody is grifting. Massive tech oligarchs have cornered nearly every market possible with virtually zero competition. There just isn’t a reason to be on the internet unless its purposefully with people I know in places that are not algorithmic-massaged content farms with “users” that are most likely bots anyways.
So lately I’ve been wondering, what do I expect of my technology use in the future? And I cant help but think I wouldn’t miss it if I stopped using it. Nobody is going to miss me so I think I’m not going to miss them. For now I’m still here using it and doing things in efforts to make myself an income, for myself to be the grifter I dont want to be because of the way the economy has shaped itself; but, that long-term plan is already rolling in my mind that I want nothing to do with it and if I retire in a remote cabin without the means to connect to the outside world I probably wouldn’t be happier.
For hundreds of years people have believed words written in newspapers without doing any further research of their own.
This is not a fundamental change.
Critical thinking has always been required.
Step the first, ignore masses.
Step the second, find your own rhythm.
Tri-step glee —> ???. (Aka do you, being you or some zen noise and actualize)
Quad steps for reps -> profit?((pro fit?)(prophet?)) it’s your jam, make it right. 🙏🏼
Be well fam
you are right, freaking out IS the appropriated response, it is not an overreaction, things are fucked and the next following years will be really stressful