How Meta Plans To Crank the Dopamine Machine With Infinite AI-Generated Content
Breaking: tech companies have figured out a new way to upend humanity
I still remember when science fiction fans worried about Skynet, HAL 9000, VIKI, or The Matrix. They thought killer robots were humanity’s ultimate threat. How many of you have played out that scenario in your mind, strategizing your best moves in case it ever came true? None would have worked but that’s beside the point: killer robots is terrible business. They will never dominate the world because corporations need humans to give them cash. No humans, no money. So, curse those clever money-makers — they went and wrote a completely different end-of-humanity story. One we didn’t see coming: Perfectly customized brain-hacking entertainment.
You may think, “Why is this guy writing about custom entertainment? This isn’t news. TV, the original ‘idiot box’, is a thing of the past and we’re mostly fine! We did not amuse ourselves to death, right?” Right, but you have to remember that AI is also a thing of the past. Wasn’t it invented in 1956? TV is barely 30 years older than that. Both are older than most of you. Why did ChatGPT only happen in 2022? Why did the AI community wait 60 years? I hope you don’t think it’s because they’re altruistic and waited for us to slowly adapt…
