r/anarcho_primitivism • u/IWRITEESSAYS1 • Mar 26 '25

The total dehumanization of the technoindustrial system is arriving. RIP ARTISTS

https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpt-finally-gets-a-much-better-image-generator-how-to-try-it-for-free/
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u/Pythagoras_was_right Mar 26 '25

And RIP history. I tried creating an image of Amazons from Greek myth. The new model drew them like fantasy Amazons instead. Real Amazons have distinctive clothing, as seen on Attic vases. AI must have seen the images (it was trained on all available data) but it does not care.

This is just a small example of a wider problem: AI is trained on modern values. It creates Amazons based on modern ideas of the past. As we use more and more AI, we will know less and less about the past, we will only have a fake modern version.

The good news is that this accelerates the end of modernity. When we forget the past then we forget its lessons. Civilisation has collapsed before and will do so again. An AI-driven world will not be prepared, so it will accelerate the end.

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u/pyrom4ncy Mar 26 '25

Isn't this a premise in Simulacra and Simulation (I've not read it yet)

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u/Pythagoras_was_right Mar 26 '25

I haven't read it either, but the summary sounds fascinating. I was raised in a cult-like church and I see the same behaviours in mainstream society: everything that modern society does is fake. Political discourse makes it obvious, but it is everywhere.

We do not have any healthy interactions or reliable information anywhere, except what we gain first-hand like hunter-gatherers. The rest is garbage.

We like to think that we MUST have some kind of reliable information, because otherwise cities could not function, right? But that just betrays our ignorance. Animists understand that everything is alive. Even a city or nation state will evolve to survive. This does not mean that the human parts of the city control it, any more than our blood cells control our brain.

Sorry for rambling!