AI is causing a lot of problems. It has invaded our phones, lives, and brains. In many ways it resembles a digital parasite, a deceptive brain-eating machine. In this video I critique the current direction of AI development by pointing out the obvious problems, and I do my best to offer advice on how to survive. I focus on the ways it affects you personally through slop, deception, and psychosis. This is coming from the perspective of a tech nerd who has always loved robots and machine learning, but I just can't ignore these issues. ~SUPPORT ME~ Learn to code faster with Scrimba! (saves you 20% and support me): https://scrimba.com/?via=EmergentGarden Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/emergentgarden Twitter: https://twitter.com/max_romana Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/emergentgarden.bsky.social ~SOURCES~ I have chosen not to cite malicious AI content or companies. Cited Films: Ex Machina, Blade Runner (1982), Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Her Booing AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crwbno_SSIo Wildwood stopmotion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HQ-HrwIgOc Suno outproduces Spotify: https://edm.com/industry/suno-ai-music-tracks-surpass-spotify-entire-catalog-every-two-weeks/ Sam Altman "RL Optimized Slop Feed" blogpost: https://blog.samaltman.com/sora-2 Spongebob Burger Competition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYeNKdJhk98 Chatgpt lying (HuskIrl): https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IvGedA3iLKA The Library of Babel (English Translation): https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf Deaths Linked to Chatbots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots Anthropic "Bliss Attractor": https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/6d8a8055020700718b0c49369f60816ba2a7c285.pdf Craft is the Antidote to Slop: https://x.com/WillManidis/status/1996336502713037274 This video was heavily inspired by Freya Holmer's video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-opBifFfsMY My Music Guy: https://www.youtube.com/@acolyte-compositions ~TIMESTAMPS~ (0:00) The Turing Test is a Lie (2:21) The Brain Eating Machines (5:01) Slop (12:54) Deception (23:09) Psychosis (33:00) Craft (39:30) We are Humans
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* I’m neither “pro-AI” nor “anti-AI.” I’ve been blocked for being perceived as both. —Actually, I’m honestly more anti-AI than pro-AI thus far, aside from specialized models and specific use cases, but I’m willing to consider information that’s new to me
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