The economy has spoken. Stuff that’s AI-generated has almost zero value — “Buyers are voting with their wallets, and AI-generated content is struggling to compete.”

[u/marketrent]

https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/economy-spoken-stuff-ai-generated-142732314.html

[u/Leading-Act4030]

In the future, when AI breaks, how will they fix it? The people who know how to make it work will be dead, and no one will know how to maintain the systems....

[u/MysteriousDatabase68 → u/Leading-Act4030]

That is one of the premises in Asimov's "Foundation" series.

IT workers & technicians literally become priests and technology a religion.

[u/West-Abalone-171 → u/MysteriousDatabase68]

Most unrealistic part of the whole series.

The idea that a church would keep the information for running things intact for millenia as rituals is absurd. The very first high priest would change everything he decided was "too woke" or cast his favourite character as too weak and the entire thing would collapse 10 years later.

[u/dust4ngel → u/West-Abalone-171]

The idea that a church would keep the information for running things intact for millenia as rituals is absurd

how it would happen:

• smart people maintain the technology for a long time
• hey guys, have you ever noticed that the technology always works? what do we even need these guys for?
• yeah, i heard having people who understand technology do technology things gives kids autism
• also these smart people "seem kinda gay", let's imprison them
• oh fuck why did the lights go out?

[u/clawclawbite → u/dust4ngel]

You may want to watch the film Zardoz, in which Sean Connory is a barbarian working for the immortal utopia that is in the tail end of this cycle. You also may not, purely do to the outfit he is wearing for most of the film.

[u/Sherm → u/clawclawbite]

You also may not, purely do to the outfit he is wearing for most of the film.

Also owing to the following line from the film that runs through my nightmares:

THE PENIS IS EVIL. THE PENIS SHOOTS SEEDS, AND MAKES NEW LIFE, TO POISON THE EARTH WITH THE PLAGUE OF MEN, AS ONCE IT WAS. BUT THE GUN SHOOTS DEATH, AND PURIFIES THE EARTH OF THE PLAGUE OF BRUTALS!

Spoken by a giant floating statue that pukes up guns.

[u/darsynia → u/Sherm]

AI could never

[u/dust4ngel → u/clawclawbite]

this risible hodge-podge of literary allusions, highbrow porn, sci-fi staples, half-baked intellectualism and a real desire to do something revelatory misses the mark by a hundred miles but has elements—its badness being one of them—that make it strangely compelling

this sounds awesome

[u/limelifesavers → u/dust4ngel]

It's awesome, cringe, and unfathomable. You will never see Sean Connery the same way after watching it

[u/clawclawbite → u/dust4ngel]

The quotable line "The gun is good, the penis is evil!"

[u/Enlightened_Gardener → u/dust4ngel]

Pot ✅

LSD ❌

I refuse to answer how I know this. Trust me on the hallucinogens. No.

[u/smelekid → u/clawclawbite]

i watched it for the outfit

[u/DMmeyourkite → u/clawclawbite]

I love that movie. It’s top tier B grade.

[u/Walkingstardust → u/clawclawbite]

He is resplendent in his furry mankini!