Media Tricks Exposed ✨

To summarise my rambling yesterday; in an environment where the signal to noise ratio is already dire, accessible generative AI tools are augmenting the ability of shit things to mimic value in the extreme. Beauty and symmetry will cease to be proxies of truth and value, and a new strange form of ugliness will emerge as optimised hyperreal visuals are routinely used to represent unoptimised bad ideas. As the mass consciousness wrestles with what is ahead, which will be more tragic? Being dumb enough to think something fake is real and beautiful, or being gripped so tightly by paranoia you think something real and beautiful is fake? I think we're entering an explosion of mimicry that will parallel the emergence and evolutionary success of the trait as an adaptation in nature. What if we are on the cusp of an evolutionary trap that grips the human mind as tightly and deterministically as simple bugs to a venus fly trap?

I was reading an article recently about Etsy, how it was formerly rather niche and full of largely hand crafted items, and how it has since been flooded with automated print-to-order AI-generated crap like t-shirts, mugs, etc. all with incoherent product names that exploit search engine algorithms to show up first in the results (known as SEO in e-commerce) — whatever the name of this process, it seems to be happening everywhere. Genuine things replaced by facsimiles just convincing enough to fool the middle of the bell curve. The organic nature of things being crudely stripped out as they're quickly outcompeted by algorithm-exploiting AI crap.

Photoshop and video editing require a modicum of skill, these generative AI tools are great but highly accessible. To our collective detriment, their mass adoption will completely decouple the relationship between skill/intelligence and quality output.

TODAY IN HISTORY: February 17th, 1600 On his way to be burned at the stake for “heresy” at Campo de Fiori in Rome, the philosopher and cosmologist Giordano Bruno has a wooden vise put on his tongue to prevent him from continuing to speak.

Washington Post headline: "How tens of thousands of Black U.S. doctors simply vanished." Paragraph 25: They didn't vanish I just made it up, lol.

Lets check in on Grok... @AtlasAiArt

NEW - German newspaper Spiegel predicts "unpredictable times" for Europe if "Dictator Trump" wins the U.S. elections. @disclosetv

The corrupt FBI helped promote Ben Shapiro's stupid new movie, with a perfectly timed arrest. 🔗 This post is from the Daily News Brief at AnonymousConservative.com/blog

The strangest excuse for election rigging so far. No doubt 2024 will offer up something even dumber than this. 🔗 Daily Mail (Archive) ✨ @MediaTricks

So much for a Central European news account....