WEBVTT - AI The Creative Workflow & The Dangers of Groupthink 0:00:21.603 --> 0:00:24.633 AI is replacing jobs in the video game industry with 0:00:24.663 --> 0:00:30.453 major companies like Activision, usually using generative AI tools for 0:00:30.453 --> 0:00:37.713 concept art. And they're saying an estimated 10,500 people lost 0:00:37.713 --> 0:00:40.143 their jobs in 2023. I don't know if that's all 0:00:40.143 --> 0:00:43.323 from art. I imagine a lot of it is from art. 0:00:43.893 --> 0:00:46.083 But yeah, I got a bunch of buddies in this 0:00:46.083 --> 0:00:50.853 industry and they're saying, uh, very similar things. Lots of 0:00:50.853 --> 0:00:56.073 different things in the creative workflow are vulnerable. I would 0:00:56.073 --> 0:01:00.033 say a new study shows that while generative AI like 0:01:00.033 --> 0:01:03.363 ChatGPT makes individual stories more creative and engaging, it also 0:01:03.363 --> 0:01:07.713 makes them more similar to each other. And I've heard 0:01:07.713 --> 0:01:10.113 a lot of criticisms of AI and like, oh, it's 0:01:10.113 --> 0:01:12.243 going to do this bad thing or that bad thing. 0:01:12.543 --> 0:01:17.313 But this one sounds quite realistic. So basically we need 0:01:17.313 --> 0:01:23.043 to engineer in mechanisms for exposure to alternative frames of reality, 0:01:23.073 --> 0:01:27.753 different models, different ways of viewing reality to avoid people 0:01:27.753 --> 0:01:34.573 consolidating and following like one AI powered group think. Or 0:01:34.573 --> 0:01:37.393 maybe it's like 20 AI powered group thinks. But it's 0:01:37.393 --> 0:01:41.263 like controlling the narrative of how everyone's thinking about certain things. 0:01:41.263 --> 0:01:45.433 Because something was generated by AI, it went viral. Maybe 0:01:45.463 --> 0:01:48.193 it was pretty cool or whatever. So it goes viral, 0:01:48.193 --> 0:01:51.283 and then that just becomes a thing that everyone's thinking. 0:01:51.283 --> 0:01:55.663 I've actually been really worried about this for myself. It's 0:01:55.663 --> 0:01:57.463 one of the main things I want to use a 0:01:57.493 --> 0:02:00.553 Da for. And I've been talking with Joseph Thacker about 0:02:00.553 --> 0:02:06.403 this as well. It's like, imagine that you have in 0:02:06.403 --> 0:02:12.163 your brain at any given moment a number of ideas, 0:02:12.163 --> 0:02:15.163 and I definitely have this. I have multiple ideas brewing 0:02:15.163 --> 0:02:18.163 all the time. So what percentage of those are like 0:02:18.163 --> 0:02:23.053 super new that I came up with myself? What percentage 0:02:23.053 --> 0:02:26.923 of those are like mostly derivative? And how many of 0:02:26.923 --> 0:02:31.033 those are just seeds planted by some random add that 0:02:31.033 --> 0:02:34.033 I didn't even understand? And like this is completely opaque 0:02:34.033 --> 0:02:38.533 to me. Yet I think that these 19 ideas are 0:02:38.533 --> 0:02:41.323 like mine, and so I'm going out and sharing them 0:02:41.323 --> 0:02:45.393 with other people, and then the same phenomenon happens to them. 0:02:45.483 --> 0:02:48.093 And then the question is how many of those came 0:02:48.093 --> 0:02:51.363 from I? Then the question becomes how many came from 0:02:51.363 --> 0:02:55.983 a government or some corporation where they injected these things 0:02:55.983 --> 0:02:59.013 into the world with AI. And now these memes are 0:02:59.013 --> 0:03:02.763 spreading all over, and pretty soon it's in all the articles, 0:03:02.763 --> 0:03:07.233 it's in all the news, it's in all the top podcasts. 0:03:07.563 --> 0:03:11.163 And essentially what you have is like a soft version, 0:03:11.163 --> 0:03:19.323 lowercase version of propaganda, mind control and the steering of narratives. 0:03:20.613 --> 0:03:23.283 So I think it's going to be super essential for 0:03:23.283 --> 0:03:27.273 people who care about free thinking, want to be able 0:03:27.273 --> 0:03:34.443 to disconnect and sort of read books slowly, think slowly, 0:03:34.473 --> 0:03:38.403 come up with, you know, old style thinking, old style 0:03:38.403 --> 0:03:41.043 critical thinking. That's going to be one thing. But the 0:03:41.043 --> 0:03:46.323 other thing is I want my Da to monitor the 0:03:46.323 --> 0:03:49.953 ideas that I'm talking about and that I'm writing about, 0:03:49.983 --> 0:03:55.583 monitor those things and then also say, hey, guess what? 0:03:55.883 --> 0:04:00.803 So I saw this idea get released into the world 0:04:00.803 --> 0:04:05.993 by this. Whatever. This shady group over here, that was 0:04:05.993 --> 0:04:10.373 three and a half weeks ago. They then started broadcasting 0:04:10.373 --> 0:04:14.693 it on these 19 different networks. Those got picked up 0:04:14.693 --> 0:04:20.603 by these 347 other networks, and that became one of 0:04:20.603 --> 0:04:24.773 the top 14 top ideas over the last two weeks. 0:04:24.923 --> 0:04:28.793 And you are now over here writing about it. So 0:04:28.793 --> 0:04:31.013 I just want to let you know as my as 0:04:31.013 --> 0:04:36.923 your friend, that you are being influenced by this campaign 0:04:36.923 --> 0:04:39.443 that was launched by this group three and a half 0:04:39.443 --> 0:04:43.493 weeks ago. That is a service that we all need. 0:04:43.523 --> 0:04:46.013 That is a service I'm going to build for myself, 0:04:46.043 --> 0:04:49.763 because that's going to be part of this overall mechanization 0:04:49.913 --> 0:04:53.273 involving substrate pipelines, a whole bunch of other stuff that's 0:04:53.273 --> 0:04:58.253 basically monitoring not just the world, but also myself and 0:04:58.253 --> 0:05:00.533 seeing like how I'm being influenced. That's like one of 0:05:00.533 --> 0:05:01.673 the use cases.