more creators, less autogenerated trash

I’ve gone back to my old ways, I downloaded my favorite podcast app again because I like listening to the voice of a real person who recorded some audio and uploaded it to the internet intending to be heard. I like being heard too, and I also enjoy browsing the Bearblog’s Discovery feed because I discover blog writers who take the time to write in order to be read.

Just yesterday an app called Sora by OpenAI was launched, where you can create videos of yourself and your friends, and I couldn’t help but think, “what nonsense.” Seriously, does anyone actually find that fun or useful? I mean, I get that it can be a curiosity, but why doesn’t it excite me? Why does it even kind of repulse me to see so much AI-generated content?

Right now AI is very recognizable, and I’ve seen it more often than I’d like in my daily life: at the restaurant I go to, they put AI models on their billboard, at the place I buy drinks the menu now has AI fruits in the juice section, and today I found that the promo next to the elevator for the Christmas lottery tickets is made with AI. What’s more, yesterday my partner was listening to music while cooking and I asked her: why are you listening to AI music? It was a playlist of music made with Suno, still easily identifiable for now.

I started thinking, why am I drawn to the natural and not the artificial? Maybe because the time a person dedicates to a task is always much greater than the time someone dedicates to appreciating it, and that’s okay (I like that it works that way. And that’s why I don’t like things made by AI) the creator spent 15 seconds writing a prompt and just published it. The more attention you give it, the stranger it feels. Uncanny fruit, six-fingered hands, and soulless music.

I want to read a blog, listen to a podcast, enjoy a song with soul, see a painting made by an artist, stop filling the internet with autogenerated trash and make space for incredible things. It’s not the same to see trallalelo tralala as it is to see this marvel by @rick_parsa