Imagine if you will, a pizza.
Not a normal pizza, a weird pizza.
A pizza that looks misshapen in ways that make your eyes dip in and out of focus.
Except instead of endless staircases and people walking upside down, it’s pizza.
Now imagine this pizza moving toward a barely legible human mouth.
Except instead of going into a mouth it goes toward a disfigured human nose.
Horror movie children beam vacant smiles as their eyeballs somehow stare in opposite directions.
It is, in no uncertain terms, an abomination.
It’s also extremely funny.
Over the past week or so, I’ve been seeing a lot of this bang out of content.
AI-generated trailers for made-up businesses or ideas for movies.
These videos could be deliberately crafted engagement bait or a 10 layers deep irony play.
But it feels like we’re in the midst of a very transient moment.
I believe we should enjoy it for what it is: Absolute insanity.
We’re living in the chaos of AI-generated content, and I love it.
I love it because it’s stupid.
I love it because it’s obviously terrible.
I love it because it drives an insane discourse aboutwhat AI can and can’t do.
I love it because everything about it is utterly busted.
I love it, but it won’t last.
As I see it, one of three things is almost certainly going to happen.
The tech bros are right.
Who could have seen that coming, etc.
AI movies/TV shows as a concept are relegated to a VR-esque niche and never really become much of anything.
Everyone gets bored and tech bros move on to pushing whatever Web3 tech is in the headlines.
This all goes away, and we live happily ever after.
It will undoubtedly end and we can’t take this for granted.
It’s our sworn duty to enjoy them for as long as they exist.
And there are so many things to enjoy.
This shit could make you car sick.
Tech-pilled Twitter posters believe AI has the potential to decimate everything in its path.
Dedicated haters like myself believe nothing will change.
But the future is rarely clear cut.
There is no middle ground here.
The crystal ball is broken.
No one knows anything all of the time.
There’s no way someone could have looked at a black-and-white TV and predicted Netflix.
The prism through which we filter our expectations will be a different object in 10 years time.
Everyone looks stupid in hindsight – that’s a tale as old as time.
While I still have a shred of humanity left in the marrow of my dead decaying bones.
