1 00:00:21,603 --> 00:00:24,633 S1: AI is replacing jobs in the video game industry with 2 00:00:24,663 --> 00:00:30,453 S1: major companies like Activision, usually using generative AI tools for 3 00:00:30,453 --> 00:00:37,713 S1: concept art. And they're saying an estimated 10,500 people lost 4 00:00:37,713 --> 00:00:40,143 S1: their jobs in 2023. I don't know if that's all 5 00:00:40,143 --> 00:00:43,323 S1: from art. I imagine a lot of it is from art. 6 00:00:43,893 --> 00:00:46,083 S1: But yeah, I got a bunch of buddies in this 7 00:00:46,083 --> 00:00:50,853 S1: industry and they're saying, uh, very similar things. Lots of 8 00:00:50,853 --> 00:00:56,073 S1: different things in the creative workflow are vulnerable. I would 9 00:00:56,073 --> 00:01:00,033 S1: say a new study shows that while generative AI like 10 00:01:00,033 --> 00:01:03,363 S1: ChatGPT makes individual stories more creative and engaging, it also 11 00:01:03,363 --> 00:01:07,713 S1: makes them more similar to each other. And I've heard 12 00:01:07,713 --> 00:01:10,113 S1: a lot of criticisms of AI and like, oh, it's 13 00:01:10,113 --> 00:01:12,243 S1: going to do this bad thing or that bad thing. 14 00:01:12,543 --> 00:01:17,313 S1: But this one sounds quite realistic. So basically we need 15 00:01:17,313 --> 00:01:23,043 S1: to engineer in mechanisms for exposure to alternative frames of reality, 16 00:01:23,073 --> 00:01:27,753 S1: different models, different ways of viewing reality to avoid people 17 00:01:27,753 --> 00:01:34,573 S1: consolidating and following like one AI powered group think. Or 18 00:01:34,573 --> 00:01:37,393 S1: maybe it's like 20 AI powered group thinks. But it's 19 00:01:37,393 --> 00:01:41,263 S1: like controlling the narrative of how everyone's thinking about certain things. 20 00:01:41,263 --> 00:01:45,433 S1: Because something was generated by AI, it went viral. Maybe 21 00:01:45,463 --> 00:01:48,193 S1: it was pretty cool or whatever. So it goes viral, 22 00:01:48,193 --> 00:01:51,283 S1: and then that just becomes a thing that everyone's thinking. 23 00:01:51,283 --> 00:01:55,663 S1: I've actually been really worried about this for myself. It's 24 00:01:55,663 --> 00:01:57,463 S1: one of the main things I want to use a 25 00:01:57,493 --> 00:02:00,553 S1: Da for. And I've been talking with Joseph Thacker about 26 00:02:00,553 --> 00:02:06,403 S1: this as well. It's like, imagine that you have in 27 00:02:06,403 --> 00:02:12,163 S1: your brain at any given moment a number of ideas, 28 00:02:12,163 --> 00:02:15,163 S1: and I definitely have this. I have multiple ideas brewing 29 00:02:15,163 --> 00:02:18,163 S1: all the time. So what percentage of those are like 30 00:02:18,163 --> 00:02:23,053 S1: super new that I came up with myself? What percentage 31 00:02:23,053 --> 00:02:26,923 S1: of those are like mostly derivative? And how many of 32 00:02:26,923 --> 00:02:31,033 S1: those are just seeds planted by some random add that 33 00:02:31,033 --> 00:02:34,033 S1: I didn't even understand? And like this is completely opaque 34 00:02:34,033 --> 00:02:38,533 S1: to me. Yet I think that these 19 ideas are 35 00:02:38,533 --> 00:02:41,323 S1: like mine, and so I'm going out and sharing them 36 00:02:41,323 --> 00:02:45,393 S1: with other people, and then the same phenomenon happens to them. 37 00:02:45,483 --> 00:02:48,093 S1: And then the question is how many of those came 38 00:02:48,093 --> 00:02:51,363 S1: from I? Then the question becomes how many came from 39 00:02:51,363 --> 00:02:55,983 S1: a government or some corporation where they injected these things 40 00:02:55,983 --> 00:02:59,013 S1: into the world with AI. And now these memes are 41 00:02:59,013 --> 00:03:02,763 S1: spreading all over, and pretty soon it's in all the articles, 42 00:03:02,763 --> 00:03:07,233 S1: it's in all the news, it's in all the top podcasts. 43 00:03:07,563 --> 00:03:11,163 S1: And essentially what you have is like a soft version, 44 00:03:11,163 --> 00:03:19,323 S1: lowercase version of propaganda, mind control and the steering of narratives. 45 00:03:20,613 --> 00:03:23,283 S1: So I think it's going to be super essential for 46 00:03:23,283 --> 00:03:27,273 S1: people who care about free thinking, want to be able 47 00:03:27,273 --> 00:03:34,443 S1: to disconnect and sort of read books slowly, think slowly, 48 00:03:34,473 --> 00:03:38,403 S1: come up with, you know, old style thinking, old style 49 00:03:38,403 --> 00:03:41,043 S1: critical thinking. That's going to be one thing. But the 50 00:03:41,043 --> 00:03:46,323 S1: other thing is I want my Da to monitor the 51 00:03:46,323 --> 00:03:49,953 S1: ideas that I'm talking about and that I'm writing about, 52 00:03:49,983 --> 00:03:55,583 S1: monitor those things and then also say, hey, guess what? 53 00:03:55,883 --> 00:04:00,803 S1: So I saw this idea get released into the world 54 00:04:00,803 --> 00:04:05,993 S1: by this. Whatever. This shady group over here, that was 55 00:04:05,993 --> 00:04:10,373 S1: three and a half weeks ago. They then started broadcasting 56 00:04:10,373 --> 00:04:14,693 S1: it on these 19 different networks. Those got picked up 57 00:04:14,693 --> 00:04:20,603 S1: by these 347 other networks, and that became one of 58 00:04:20,603 --> 00:04:24,773 S1: the top 14 top ideas over the last two weeks. 59 00:04:24,923 --> 00:04:28,793 S1: And you are now over here writing about it. So 60 00:04:28,793 --> 00:04:31,013 S1: I just want to let you know as my as 61 00:04:31,013 --> 00:04:36,923 S1: your friend, that you are being influenced by this campaign 62 00:04:36,923 --> 00:04:39,443 S1: that was launched by this group three and a half 63 00:04:39,443 --> 00:04:43,493 S1: weeks ago. That is a service that we all need. 64 00:04:43,523 --> 00:04:46,013 S1: That is a service I'm going to build for myself, 65 00:04:46,043 --> 00:04:49,763 S1: because that's going to be part of this overall mechanization 66 00:04:49,913 --> 00:04:53,273 S1: involving substrate pipelines, a whole bunch of other stuff that's 67 00:04:53,273 --> 00:04:58,253 S1: basically monitoring not just the world, but also myself and 68 00:04:58,253 --> 00:05:00,533 S1: seeing like how I'm being influenced. That's like one of 69 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:01,673 S1: the use cases.