This has been cooking for a while, like since the alarms started getting sounded about an AI bubble; but I had a dream recently where the AI bubble popped, and we were all happy, and the industry really did bottom out, but then peter goddamned thiel ends up basically owning the entire market share, then buys up artistic supplychains and stores and shuts them down entirely to force people on the slop machine.
and reflecting on it, that’s when i kinda came to the conclusion: that’s a real ass possibility.
I think of the 2000s dot com bubble, levelled the landscape, and the companies that survived and the ones that emerged in its wake had staying power, and dominate the technological social landscape to a frankly dangerous degree
the money behind this AI shit is immense, and some of these guys are deranged enough to just force the matter, like who could even contest this?
I’d love to get talked down from this position if it’s more unreasonable than i think but… yeah im kinda anxious about it now.
But AI stuff just looks like a meme template from 10 years ago. Only now it’s now it shortform video that makes your brain go
. It will become increasingly cringey in time too.
It wasn’t like we where in a renaissance up to 2021. Almost everything was super deriative or was some fetishic take on something else as well. Social media and monetisation had set a catastrophic foundation for this. Those who make something original will always be few and far between and will always be exceptions to the rule.
A amateur writing, painting, drawing for themselves shouldn’t feel pressure to publish or share. We should learn to appreciate hiding in plain sight again and not submitting everything for scrutiny. And maybe should be for your own pleasure. Might be better for people to produce their own crap for hours then watching hundreds of brain roitting clips in that time. There is rarely ever an idea that is good on it’s own merrits without years of scrutiny, collobration and yeah gatekeeping to get there.