Are you sick of seeing AI-Generated bullshit everywhere? So am I.
We’ve already seen this time and time again, which is one of the powerhouses behind nostalgia. In the creation and development of new technology, we have a growing sense of enthusiasm, passion, and excitement for what the future holds.
Inevitably, the once-exciting development flatlines into a commodity.
This is most evident in examples such as 2010 when we watched our lively Web 1.0 internet turn into the sterile landscape we see today.
Many of us protested. We already had Facebook, so why sign up for Google Plus? Instagram? That’s redundant, we already have Facebook. Why are so many Social Media platforms springing up when we really don’t care? Years went by and we saw an entire generation of kids who grew up with this being normal. They never had a choice.
Just as we watched in amazement as computer graphics improved in the 1990s and said to ourselves: Wow, one day, I’ll bet these graphics will look realistic – We saw video games commoditize into mass-produced cookie-cutter product we see today. Other such examples include film, Rolling Rock, and Cutting Cable.
In the wild west of limited resources, the human will to survive sparked creativity – leading designers to work with and around hardware limitations creating the illusion of exceeding those limitations. The very act of creating a game was a game itself with rules and boundaries to consider – That’s in direct contrast to now - where there is unlimited memory, storage, and resources - And without limitations to defy or an envelope to push, the will to survive is never called into play.
This explains the nostalgia for any time in which a project or development was in its pioneering days – with the workloads being groundbreaking and full of massive dopamine hits for each successive win.
As many of you are beginning to sense, we now enter the next era. The exciting days for the development of AI and the future it would one day bring are now gone as AI rapidly commoditizes. You’re now seeing AI-generated content everywhere. Websites are being built for search engines instead of people and the way at which content is fed to us, the algorithms, now step into an even more sterile and uncanny dead-internet.
It's no longer a prediction that AI would destroy humanity as the degradation is already here. The good news is, as the mainstream declines, several new contrasting movements will branch off as a direct response.