Imagining the good
While my brain is still half-mush, I’ve been messing around with some content creation tools.
Here is a first attempt at Rabbenu and the Rav hanging out, while the UFO-looking Beit HaMikdash crash lands:
(Doing a real looking Beit HaMikdash is proving kinda tricky…)
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This is what happened when I took the portrait of Rebbe Nachman, and put it together with the words:
There is no despair in the world!
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And this is probably going to be a new screensaver:
(Feel free to download and share it, if you like it too.)
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Point is: why do we have to keep on ‘imagining’ the future so bleak and dark?
Things have a habit of ‘following’ our train of thought, which is why the Evils spend so much time trying to make us all feel so depressed, demoralised and despairing all the time.
15 minute seconds are never going to happen – the masses will rise up long, long before that.
AI is a great tool for some things – but it totally lacks a human soul and creativity, and it will just free humans up to be more creative and authenticallly ‘human’, while the robotic soul-destroying jobs can be done by… robots.
The Evils are on a bad losing streak, and any day now, God is going to take them out for good.
I prefer to be thinking this way, ‘imagining’ things this way, as one thing I can tell you for sure:
YOU CAN BELIEVE NOTHING YOUR EYES ARE SHOWING YOU THESE DAYS, VIA A SCREEN.
Absolutely nothing.
So, you may as well make up your own script while waiting for the inner clarity to reveal itself, and start to enjoy your life again.
the technology to make realistic deepfakes existed five years ago, around the start of covid, if not earlier.
interesting that it took this long to make it to the general public.
Probably, even longer than that. I cannot emphasise enough, how most of what we’re being fed as realistic ‘news’ is probably just this stuff. Anyone can make their own ‘news’ with this tech.
Even back in the 1970s, Richard Nixon famously said, “The American people don’t believe anything until they see it on television.”
There is nothing new. They have better tools today, but even then, they could do produce incredibly realistic and completely fake content.
So impressive were the special effects even then, that the byline for the the 1978 Superman movie was, “You’ll believe a man can fly.” That’s what they wanted to highlight about what they created.
Those videos were delightful!
They are a bit rough around the edges still, but the potential is actually astounding. What used to take tons of money and studios can now be knocked out in a few hours, for pennies, by people sitting at home. The only limit is a person’s imagination…
Someone I follow has written and talked quite a bit on the rapid advancement of AI when applied to creating writing (novel length is now possible; it used to lose the plot after a few thousand words), musical composition, and even making complete feature length movies (which he is working on). It is astonishing. However, quality output takes more than just a few hours. And the free tools are limited.
I decided to deep-dive a bit on what you can do with AI, I’ll write up where I’ve got to in the next post.