All of us are waiting for the bubble to burst but will it actually affect anything? I think AI has already done so much irreversible damage to Interest & Society(Kinda). I have seen YouTube channels with 100K subs who create AI Slops(Music, Short stupid essay), Xhitter account which have more than 100K followers which pump out good enough art. Even if bubbles burst these tools will go nowhere. Every day I wake up I feel much shittier. I need to puke. I am seeing everything I love getting ruined by soulless bot or greedy humans who don’t love art/music/story etc. I am sounding like a boomer but I am in my early 20s actually. I go to reddit there are Pro AI people laughing at us calling us Luddite or “Decel”. I have no hope most of you guys are old folk. I want to leave this fast paced world & go do farming at my hometown. Reading Books made by humans and watching some movies made by humans in a week without caring about this whole hellhole. I was so passionate about computer engineering I really loved technology. I was one of the early adopters of Gen AI who loved Midjounery because it was new & looked kinda magical to me now it looks like the most dystopian shit human yet created. I now resent my degree. I am a replaceable human who has no value. Human evolutioned much just to be replaced by some bots so I can do more slavery for corpo lords who believe that capital is ever growing like a cancer cell.
If you think youtube videos or twitter accounts had soul and weren’t already ruined by corporate advertising, then you need to get real. Literally nothing has changed. There was nothing of value there for a very long time.
You’re in your early 20s so enshittified corporate media is probably all you’ve ever experienced. Try to find some popular youtube videos from the 2000s to see the difference (remember that there were zero ads autoplaying or sponsors mentioned during the video). Here’s an example: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2I294xoqGcE. Or read up on what the internet was like in the 90s and early 00s. People used to just do things because they liked it and thought it was fun, instead of to become an influencer with sponsors or go viral or pander to subscribers. Back when “the algorithm” was what people chose to tell each other about and search engines were designed to help you find exactly the content you were looking for, because you were searching for it while your friend described it to you.
Corporations are using AI to automate the jobs of influencers and content-creators, because influencers and content-creators work for corporations. They’re extra costs that can be cut and replaced with machines.
Yeah that’s why I love Neocities, Archiveofourown.org or Tumblr. They give the vibe of the Old Internet kinda.
Check out the smol web on kagi, and on Lemmy! Try gopher. Get a Dreamcast and hook it to the internet.
The true tech people are underground now (well, always have been,) doing Foss and fediverse stuff. YouTube has been shit for many years unless you specifically curated it for yourself and block algorithms.
Use bandcamp and physical media for music.
Keep learning, because other humans your age are fucking idiots because of AI reliance already. Its terrifying how dumb they are.
Thanks for the recommendation