Twonks | Bluesky

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TW😶NKS

A comic in four panels:

Panel 1. White text on black

AI Design Logic

Panel 2. A guy sits in a restaurant at a table with a checkered table cloth. A waiter stands near, hands behind back waiting attentively.

Guy: Get me a cheese pizza

Panel 3. The waiter returns with a pizza in hand.

Panel 4. The guy gestures proudly at the pizza. The waiter looks less than amused.

Guy: Wow, look what I made!

  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    1 hour ago

    I’m not sure more people having more access means things are now worse. Like more people have more means to create art today than 500 years ago and yeah there’s a lot of uninspired or derivative content but also there’s a lot more legitimate artists making passionate and thought provoking work.

    Yeah I imagine what you’re saying will come to pass although I think it’ll look more like parlor walls from Fahrenheit 451 for the majority. I think my main issue is when a human is totally uninvolved in the process. So far it seems pretty noticeable when there’s someone with an actual idea they’re trying to create vs there’s no mind behind it.

    • AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml
      1·
      51 minutes ago

      Haha love the reference to Fahrenheit 451. There is also a good illustration in the horror story from _9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 with people sinking into some kind of experience stream, similar to wireheading. Or in “Systema Delenda Est” about postbiological life there is the concept of “Elysium” virtual worlds where people go in and never want to come out again, because they live in a narrative that is always perfect for them. Instead of slop you have perfection that is irresistible. Star Trek had Barkley becoming holo-addicted. Cheese Pizza is really bad for you too lol.

      You could argue that something like computer games the story is ultimately told by the player and his decisions and actions, and the world should just react. There is a fundamental limit to storytelling in computer games, which only tabletop role playing games solve with an intelligent narrator or game master. I do think LLMs can fill that role but not very well. But better than what open world games offer today. Not better than a well written movie.

      • Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        34 minutes ago

        I think ultimately the will or mind should be unbounded sans the ability to willfully cause harm to other minds. It’s purely due to limitations of technology that we are in our current predicament. The famous prosthetic engineer Hugh Herr made the argument it was not him who was disabled but our technology that was disabled. Now what minds do when they are unbounded by the reality around them is their own responsibility. If you’ve seen the show pantheon then things could turn out similarly aka minds in multiple embodiments exploring physical and simulated realities or otherwise experiencing whatever they desire without limitations beyond the limitation of willfully causing harm to others.

        Ideally minds unchained from limitations wouldn’t desire to cause harm anyways, but there’s some real jerks out there.