Does it Matter if ChatGPT and the Neurotechnology Work as Advertised?

Not in the world the Technocrats have planned.

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What Glenn Beck and a number of other alt media commentators are concerned about is that apps like ChatGPT will put us humans out of the job market. After all, the only advantage we humans have over the bots is our creativity and empathy.

Are these fears reasonable? The “art” churned out by AI is not that great. I find it frustrating when people like Jordan Peterson praise the beauty and superiority of essays generated by machines. Or some homestead YT claimed ChatGPT can write complex and nuanced movie scripts with fully developed characters in three seconds.

That’s not what I see coming out of AI. Not right now. But maybe the YouTuber believes that because she can’t distinguish between good writing and bad.

Here’s the “art” I see AI taking over in as little as a year or two.

• Pornography and erotica passing for fiction.

• Rage bait articles for sites like Buzzfeed.

• Brainwashing propaganda which needs to contain key phrases yet vary just enough to sound different from an article containing the same lie message.

• Grotesque images for horror games and flicks.

• Erotic images for porn. (Porn is not about beauty or proportion but titillation. Addicts prefer a bit of the grotesque thrown in to cater to their particular fetish.)

• Predictable, hypnotic tunes with meaningless rhymes performed by a virtual version of “artist” of choice.

• Instagram poems.

Soon after:

• Computer code without edits.

• Wikipedia articles.

• TV anchor performances. (One person can do deep fakes and be Rachel Maddow, Don Lemon, Brian Stelter, Joe Scarborough, Jimmy Kimmel.)

• What passes for “woke” comedy. It doesn't need to be funny as long as it pauses at a certain point as though it’s meant to let the audience laugh. A matter of timing rather than humor.

• “Woke” shows being done by Creative Stakeholders right now. She Hulk. Velma. Familiar properties can be put through the AI meat grinder and swapped out for “diversity.” The characters don’t have to be likeable, relatable, interesting or funny. Just make the token white heterosexual man look like a buffoon and weakling the “oppressed” characters pick on all the time. The writing is so awful no one will notice or care when AI steps in.

• “Woke” games and comic books.

What I see as the problem is not that machines will put good artists out of work. That won’t be necessary. People will no longer want good art or anything but junk art. Formerly known as pop art.

Kind of like Spellcheck and Dragon. Instead of using them as supplements for errors we might not catch, we just lowered our standards in spelling and punctuation in what we read and write. Expect dumber, lazier people in the near future. What cars and modern labor-saving devices did to the average body will be done to the human mind courtesy of AI apps.

This has been going on for quite a while. I’m used to being mocked for preferring the beauty of songs from the hymnal as opposed to the catchy, banal tunes ground out by the Hillsong franchise. Evidence of the weak theology can be found in the questions asked on SM by Marty Sampson after he lost what little faith he had.

No one had ever asked or answered his rudimentary questions at that mega church. Too busy throwing a brainless, heartless circus. Catchy feel goodism in those lyrics with no depth at all. Sampson held a key position in that church and wrote many of the theologically empty, biblically illiterate, shallow lyrics people at various places continue to sing on Sundays.

Christian pop culture is just a weak imitation of the pop culture around us, so Hillsong can easily replace their writers/composers too as the hirelings lead their flocks into the Metaverse. I bet their leaders go to Davos too.

AI will pose the biggest direct threat to pop artists and hacks. The threats to good artists will come from human censors and a lack of audience.

Of course, Glenn Beck assumes we’ll be allowed to stay in the system and compete with their AI and bots once the technocrats take over. I see that as a needless worry unless you’re willing to live under their boot. I know I won’t. A sizeable number of us will die first.

We need to be preparing to go Luddite. The first thing they’ll do besides establishing CBDC is cutting us out of the centralized tech grid they will fully control. They will keep their chattel in pods most of the time and limit most “social” interactions to screens fully controlled and monitored by them under surveillance in their “smart” cities.

Rejecting their gifts is the first big step. I think it will take them by surprise. Just like Sauron they can’t imagine anyone would throw away their Ring of Power.

If you want to compare a human poem with a machine generated document, here’s a chance. These poems describe a group of plucky humans who stop a machine from taking over the world.

A.
To stop Man's foe of gear and cog,
They flung themselves within to clog
The apparatus. Thus they failed.
Through defeat Mankind prevailed.

Hephaestus' child--of metal might--
Lost to the weaklings in that fight.
From defeat they arose victorious.
A heroic tale most glorious.


B.
With knowledge as their sharpest sword
They fought the machines, with one accord
And in the end, they emerged victorious
Their bravery, a story most auspicious.

For they saved the world, with wit and might
And proved that knowledge is their truest fight.
And in the end, they emerged victorious
Their bravery, a story most auspicious.

Which was written by a human poet? Which generated by a machine? Share your guess in the comments below.