i have observed and been disconcerted by people thinking ai is ‘real’ as far as it being able to access real truths like the mariana trench without water thing. a friend showed me an ai picture of ‘what her and blank’s baby would look like’ and she seemingly could not understand that it wasn’t an actual ‘real’ image of what the baby would look like. as if ai can pull from another dimension or timeline. she had no understanding that it was a computer generated guess that had no real authority to it. so odd.
i guess it makes sense that it’s a common urge to ascribe god like omnipotence to large nebulas source we don’t understand (i know many people understand it but certainly not everyone using it does) but we should really know better.
Comparing this trend to medieval drawings of monsters somehow makes this much more legible to me! A modern version of scribbling sea monsters (literally) in empty spots on the map.
I still find it disconcerted though, that having the LLM create such things is effectively outsourcing our imagination. To be able to imagine a cryptid and render it believable to a wide audience, would paradoxically require an excellent understanding of real animals and environments. Pushing that to the machine shifts an act that is creative/productive into one of consumption.
To be kinder to the modern trend, it at least pushes the creative act of the reader farther away from their own experiences of the world. the creative act is instead being fed an artifice to work upon. An LLM's output degrades when it builds its answers on LLM generated data, people may exhibit the same behavior.
Nickie Cimino once said that she didnt care for scifi because the natural world was already so full beauty.
Not to get moralist but these people are always looking at ugly AI slop of fantastical creatures or places when they could be looking at the beautiful things made by nature (or hell, beauty made by humans).
People who truly believe this things miss on the peace of mind of the eternally sceptic, I'm inclined to always doubt things and I wonder what am I missing on.
Tabloid newspapers used to print "Artist's Impression" images of aliens in their UFO segments. These Generic Aliens had a "wink, wink, we're not being serious" quality about them...?
Taking a bath and sleeping with a glass of water next to my bed to send an echolocation message to the eternal cetacean consciousness for your speedy recovery, spiritual, and bodily rebirth during your personal Ragnarök 🐬🐬🐬🤲🧎🏾
The majority of Americans thinking Aliens are real makes a lot of sense considering just how much government bandwidth has gone into publicly acknowledging that the feds see aerial objects of unknown origin on multiple occasions, with aliens as the default explanation for UFO's since Roswell. I could see this in particular being what opened the floodgates on cryptids at large.
I'm just disappointed that Bigfoot and the other cryptids lost the race for good clear video evidence before AI permanently rendered all such evidence inadmissible.
i have observed and been disconcerted by people thinking ai is ‘real’ as far as it being able to access real truths like the mariana trench without water thing. a friend showed me an ai picture of ‘what her and blank’s baby would look like’ and she seemingly could not understand that it wasn’t an actual ‘real’ image of what the baby would look like. as if ai can pull from another dimension or timeline. she had no understanding that it was a computer generated guess that had no real authority to it. so odd.
i guess it makes sense that it’s a common urge to ascribe god like omnipotence to large nebulas source we don’t understand (i know many people understand it but certainly not everyone using it does) but we should really know better.
This reminds me of scrying.
The type John Dee would do.
Looking into a crystal ball for insight.
I should do a post on John Dee. I am Katherine Dee after all!
Comparing this trend to medieval drawings of monsters somehow makes this much more legible to me! A modern version of scribbling sea monsters (literally) in empty spots on the map.
I still find it disconcerted though, that having the LLM create such things is effectively outsourcing our imagination. To be able to imagine a cryptid and render it believable to a wide audience, would paradoxically require an excellent understanding of real animals and environments. Pushing that to the machine shifts an act that is creative/productive into one of consumption.
To be kinder to the modern trend, it at least pushes the creative act of the reader farther away from their own experiences of the world. the creative act is instead being fed an artifice to work upon. An LLM's output degrades when it builds its answers on LLM generated data, people may exhibit the same behavior.
Nickie Cimino once said that she didnt care for scifi because the natural world was already so full beauty.
Not to get moralist but these people are always looking at ugly AI slop of fantastical creatures or places when they could be looking at the beautiful things made by nature (or hell, beauty made by humans).
I don’t see why they’re mutually exclusive
People who truly believe this things miss on the peace of mind of the eternally sceptic, I'm inclined to always doubt things and I wonder what am I missing on.
Tabloid newspapers used to print "Artist's Impression" images of aliens in their UFO segments. These Generic Aliens had a "wink, wink, we're not being serious" quality about them...?
Taking a bath and sleeping with a glass of water next to my bed to send an echolocation message to the eternal cetacean consciousness for your speedy recovery, spiritual, and bodily rebirth during your personal Ragnarök 🐬🐬🐬🤲🧎🏾
The majority of Americans thinking Aliens are real makes a lot of sense considering just how much government bandwidth has gone into publicly acknowledging that the feds see aerial objects of unknown origin on multiple occasions, with aliens as the default explanation for UFO's since Roswell. I could see this in particular being what opened the floodgates on cryptids at large.
I feel like people think the public is apathetic but I think the reaction is more like “of course”
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I'm just disappointed that Bigfoot and the other cryptids lost the race for good clear video evidence before AI permanently rendered all such evidence inadmissible.