[fuzztester]

I agree with the earlier part of your comment, but am not clear about this part:

>and freed from the apparently intolerable burden of having to interact with other humans in order to generate and consume media.

Can you explain it?

[munificent]

Things like:

* A comment I saw on HN once where some dude was excited about AI video because it let him play at being a filmmaker without having to deal with actors, camera operators, etc.

* The large number of tragic souls who install chatbot apps on their phones and have virtual relationships with them instead of actual relationships.

* Spending an evening scrolling through TikTok or other social media which is increasingly AI-generated images and video instead of summoning the willpower to call a friend or get out of the house.

* Music producers who use AI vocal generators instead of finding a friend who can sing.

Etc.

[fuzztester]

got it, thanks. interesting.

I've seen things like that too, among my friends and acquaintances.

e.g.: a few months back, i was hanging out one evening in the office of a friend who works in the filmmaking field, who i saw creating a presentation to promote an upcoming film course they were going to conduct shortly.

i somehow could detect, by the words and tone, that it was probably ai-generated. he said yes.

then i told him what i intuitively felt, that using such a tool once in a while may be okay but if you use it a lot, your skills will atrophy.

same thing happened with another friend in a different field some days later.