I hate to sound like Baba Vanga
But we’re approaching some weird dystopian nightmare, a lot quicker than we anticipated.
And as much as I sound like I’m beating a dead horse about AI.
I’m going to have to keep beating it.
In the last few months, studies are finally getting released into public about the dangers of continuous use of all of these loved LLM’s.
Like I’ve said in the past before. I’m not against the tech as a whole. I’m just against the generative side of it, especially from the lovely grey area these massive tech companies think they can operate from without repercussions… (That’s a whole series of emails in itself though) because they haven’t taken into consideration the cognitive destruction these tools are having on people and society as a whole.
Although if you look at it from a wild angle. What most people are doing with it all, is pushing out low quality and low effort content at scale.
That same low quality and low effort content is getting converted into shorter form content littered across social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram.
And because human impulse control is non existent when you’re addicted to social media, your brain essentially takes a lot that low quality and low effort content and latches on to it.
But here’s where it gets worse though:
“A University of Cambridge study in Neuropsychopharmacology found that watching 2+ hours of TikTok/Instagram Reels daily reduces sustained attention by 15-20% and causes prefrontal cortex changes resembling early dementia, due to dopamine driven algorithms.”
So what happens when the amplification of dopamine hits an all time high?
It slowly erodes your ability to think, reason and regulate your emotions.
So now you’re seeing an even younger generation become even more anti social, more aggressive and have even less impulse control, which as they age, will affect them as adults later on in life.
And so where does this cycle end? Well, it doesn’t.
Big tech and marketing bros can’t conceptualise the correct education relating to the AI tech, because it’ll do one of two things (Probably both)
It’ll show people that Big tech are grifting shit weasles who only care about money at the cost of human labour, while destroying humanity at its base.
It’ll show the marketing bros that they don’t really know anything at all and again, are only gargling on the shiny AI balls of Big tech for monetary reasons, not because they care about their customers/clients etc.
So we hover in this very interesting dichotomy where you have people who can see the potential of genuine AI and its use cases…
Versus the people who are so blindly ignorant of the tech that once they become disillusioned to it all, they’ll cry that they’ve been duped and scammed and whatever else.
I’m at a point where it’s hard to keep fighting the good fight, cause people are just willfuly ignorant about it all and would rather do the whole ostrich sticking their head in the sand move to avoid danger than peak into the twisted dystopian nightmare that is unfolding.
Guess I’m gonna have to pull a Jared Leto. Build an in person cult, go live on an island and go back to the days where we just hung out in caves and painted on walls.
What’s your thoughts on all of this? Happy that the AI overlords are taking over the world or are you as fatigued about AI this and that being forced down our throats in everything we do?
Stephen Walker.
P.S. A fun little study you can read on all of this which echoes all of this and more. 22 pages of sauce.
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