So imagine you have a bunch of photos on your phone, and then some software finds all your photos from your recent vacation to Brazil, automatically creates a slideshow out of it, and then generates a video where while the slideshow is scrolling, there’s 2 AI podcast hosts talking about your life in the photos. Specifically in this scenario, the vacation to Brazil
One clear reason I can piece together is that it’s narcissistic to want 2 AI humans to talk about your own photos like that
But there’s also something deeply unsettling about this that I can’t exactly piece together. I’m not against generating an AI podcast for like study notes or something for you to listen to while driving or cooking, but it’s super weird if it’s on your own photos right?
Is it the fact that it’s weird to just listen to AI voices talk about your photos and yourself? Like it’s some sort of artificial social interaction?
I think it’s because the action of showing off your vacation photos and talking about them is something that’s established in our culture as a social thing. Yeah we’ve all joked about how lame it can be to sit through someone’s vacation slides when they just go on forever and ever, but for every one of those social interactions there’s a hundred where you just make small talk while flipping through and holding your phone for someone to see and it’s a moment of human connection and sharing your life with another person.
The AI process takes that same activity and strips all of the meaning from it, rendering it uncanny. It reminds me of the androids in Nier who are emulating the visual aesthetics of human society but don’t really understand why they’re doing it.
I would like that even less than I would like random actual humans viewing my shit on the internet and making up my life story about it
(Reminding myself to listen to this later)
holy shit I just spent five entire minutes laughing thank you so much
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
It makes me feel profoundly lonely to think about. It’s like having a tea party with your stuffed animals only you’re watching from the other room as a shadow does it for you.
AI’s propensity towards hyper-individualism. don’t people listen to podcasts to learn something about the world outside of themselves, to hear someone else’s story or perspective? this need for content so specifically geared towards oneself just shouts “main character syndrome”
also I just can’t imagine how an AI-generated podcast based on your vacation pics would even be interesting to listen to. why would you want to hear a fake person relay your own memories back to you based on something as superficial as a photograph? surely your actual lived experience is deeper and more valuable than what some algorithm assumes from a bunch of pixels
and of course it will inevitably say something wrong, probably often. maybe the AI identifies a fruit stand in your photos and the artificial host says something about how strong the smell of strawberries was, except you don’t actually remember smelling strawberries. maybe it’s been awhile so you think "hm I guess it did smell like strawberries " and the AI just implanted a false memory. disturbing stuff lol
Not only that but your experiences are essentially being sold back to you as a product. The motivations that brought you to that specific point in time and space, the emotions that you may have felt there, the memory of being itself - repackaged and shat out from a soulless statistical process solely for the purposes of enriching hogs.
also I just can’t imagine how an AI-generated podcast based on your vacation pics would even be interesting to listen to …
surely your actual lived experience is deeper and more valuable
You vastly overestimate how interesting and intelligent the people making the decisions for this product are
ah right, the type of people who only travel for the gram and don’t really engage with the culture of the place they’re visiting anyway. imagine having the resources to go anywhere in the world and getting nothing out of it except some content for the slop factory. very cool
something deeply unsettling
I think it’s that it puts even more solipsism right in the middle of the phone->human dopamine loop
It’s like giving up the ability to have your own experience, and instead getting someone else (in this case an AI) to tell you what it is you did. It is unsettling.
ngl i would probably use it once out of morbid curiosity like how i check in on this for a couple minutes every month or so lol
ghoul thoughts
they should call it shut up granny, and sell to retirement homes on that medicaid dole.
It is weird and kinda sad, notebooks exist, if you want to write thoughts on trip. i don’t know what ai lying will accomplish, make person mad on “that’s not what happened”? create fake memories over time?
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that’s not a real feature, is it? Like, in those newer phones that are advertised as coming with AI built into the software?
This feature may or may not be coming soon to over a billion people
