If you spend enough time around Silicon Valley these days, you’ll hear a surprising word: the V-word. villain, Used to describe something that looks like their own. Not all tech greats, venture capitalists, and founders consider OpenAI’s Sam Altman, creator of ChatGPT, to be the true villain, but more than you might expect do. I am. Altman’s sentiments are clear as he openly talks about raising $8. Trilliontoday’s villains are well on their way to becoming tomorrow’s supervillains.
It’s an attitude shockingly close to “disastrous” status, a pessimistic attitude toward the surging future that most technologists decry in the name of rising tide optimism about innovation-driven progress. But without diving into the discussion of progress, Altman’s astonishing progress, the rare man who felt under suspicion in the valley, is morally and unambiguously clear that humanity’s villains are accelerating us to a special state. This raises important questions about what can be done to stop them from doing so. spiritual A disaster.
The digitally represented face of our “collective consciousness” is not the face of an autistic new Enlightenment. It’s a schizophrenic mess.
An interesting piece of evidence is the euphoria surrounding OpenAI’s latest prompt-to-video product. sky is a feature that converts text into AI-generated video.A series of sample clips caused waves soy facing And it was so shocking that Apple Vision Pro testers compared it to some kind of religious experience. “Hollywood quality”…”Hollywood beware”…”Rest in peace Hollywood”…probably spent an hour of his time on X just working on Techland’s assessment of Sora’s impending impact. You’ll lose weight. “This is the worst thing in the history of this technology.”
Of course, there are skeptics. Lauren Southern, unable to “generate text” in ChatGPT Contains the word “libs”” mocked the prospect of Sora’s sinking, saying it had “taken Hollywood by surprise” and predicting “an era of censorship and government curation like we’ve never seen before.”
An even deeper question is what exactly we mean by the word “Hollywood”, a question similar to what exactly we mean by the word “media”. These abstract concepts, of course, refer to companies, but in that sense, yes Instead of taking products directly from the regime itself, Sora and its inevitable clones may create outdated corporate mass entertainment.
But here we are again talking about abstraction. Hollywood, the media, and the regime are not just organizations, baskets, or networks of organizations. peoplecertain flesh-and-blood human beings living various spiritual lives in varying degrees of suffering.
Innovations like Sora not only raise questions about which groups of people will seize or inherit control of these video and storytelling tools. They raise the question of whether content automation will lead more people to believe that our mental health requires a complete break away from narrative fetishes and obsessive attitudes. I am.
The dominance of Hollywood, Madison Avenue, and government propaganda was born in the televised form of communication technology that digital technology has superseded. The classes that fuel the images of Los Angeles, New York, and Washington, D.C., and those in the executive departments that shape the narrative, have come of age, those who control the means of creating dreams have influence, and whoever dreams them has control. mastered in the world of The biggest and best dreams have earned the moral right to rule.
However, the situation was not simply determined by the formative influence of television image technology. Basically, it is the temptations that constantly trouble us and threaten our spiritual health, that is, those that arise not only from the glorious promises of evil and its earthly rewards, but also from our dreams, sensations, passions. .
Of course, our ability to see, smell, taste, imagine, reminisce, and desire is not at fault. It is because when we are not spiritually disciplined, all these attributes that we so often idolize, place our trust in, and push to artificial extremes, lead us so far astray, delusional, distracted, It leads to addiction and perversion.
The rise of tools like Sora holds an eerie mirror up to the idol factories that are already in our hearts and minds, an endless fire hose that unconsciously tricks us into every nook and cranny of our consciousness. gives us a shocking vision of being filled with everything we can desire, everything we desire. What you can explain, what you can fear, what you can imagine, what you can forget, all without lifting a finger.
After all, today’s text-based prompts will “eventually” be replaced by “neural interfaces,” as Mark Zuckerberg recently said candidly about Meta’s Apple Vision Pro competitor. It will be. The “collective consciousness” revealed is not some autistic new Enlightenment consciousness. It’s a schizophrenic mess.
It all seems like the antidote to Altman is not the law or an Iron Man-esque superhero, but a return to confront the soul sickness that lurks within our hearts, and a responsibility to take on the discipline to bend our minds. It strongly suggests a calm new willingness to accept. A will to fight for our spiritual health.
That’s not much amazing An elevator pitch for next-generation content creation. But if we want to cling to a future rich in human art worth making and sharing, our path may well lead through a frenzy of mind-boggling machines. Instead, you will walk through the quiet and narrow path of God.
