A traveler in the contest

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Wonderment is a human superpower. Novelty fuels wonderment. Life erodes our wonderment to our detriment. In the age of AI video desensitization, our wonderment will be destroyed by the anti-novelty, over saturated, AI Social Media platforms. x.com/angadadlakha/status/11…

THE DESENSITIZED GENERATION — Immune To Novelty By AI Video Fatigue With just a few hours of testing OpenAI’s Sora2 Social Network for my clients and just finished a 218 page report, the thing I thought about for decades is upon us: Full Desensitization Of Visual Novelty I knew so many years ago, and one reason I have posted on the account so many novel images and videos that one day we will rapidly become immune to “oh damn, it’s over” images and video. With Sora2 this desensitization will rapidly accelerate as “you and your friends” build endless videos where you and they are inserted. Like all things that get abused, the first phase is “wow look at this”, the next phase is “can it do that” and the last phase is “nothing is real and I don’t care”. The shock value of the entire technology become removed but in the final phases it will be pushed to extremes of insults and potentially purposeful directed reputation damage. This will take place so rapidly as Sora2 and every other social network rushes to take whatever nicely oxygen that is left in the room for more and more “it’s over, we are so cooked” fantastical videos. They will continue to get so much better that even the “debunker” experts will give up their “look at the fingers-type troupe”, they honestly will not know and soon burn out. My easy point is get ready to be bored by the novelty of humans that in the past took potentially hours of thier lives to create novelty in reality. The hard point is what now? Once a society takes something that has increasingly more and more amazing possibilities like AI and rapidly becomes immune to the possibilities the entire industry become devalued because the front facing aspect to AI will be Sora2-like social media. Humanity’s entire past of astonishing achievements, the high points and the low points and the incredible art we can make will equally become devalued because this fatigue will make us not care and not trust what was real. Everything will become a forever now where there was no real past because it would take impossible effort to verify it if at all. Why? Because not only are we the Desensitized Generation we are also the Amnesia Generation where Petabytes of all forms of media, books, papers, microfilm/microfiche, film, VHS, audio tapes, records, etc is being thrown away or decayed. Not to mention the daily removal of text, images, video and audio from the internet. We simply will not have the receipts, we won’t have the memory and the fatigue is too large to care. It took 5 dark nights for the Library to burn, the sum total of human knowledge. In our age the burn is slow and rapidly increasing till the pot boils over. What are the answers? I have thought about this for decades. I will continue to write about it a lot. But one thing you can do is understand we are rapidly losing our past because almost no one cares. I should not be the only one dumpster diving to save what I can. Also protect your mind and preserve your “novelty” sensitivity because once it is burned out with fatigue, it will never return. And I ask you to have grace and compassion to those that don’t know what we know. You are the 1% of the 1% and must serve a place to help those that can understand what this means and have grace to those who can’t. I am serious, be gentle with them as they find the bottom of the hole and hopefully find a way back. This video below was novel and she risked her life. You are the last generation to understand this. The post reposted of a CEO head in a toilet, is AI rendered it is not novelty.
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a lot can change in a year. if you're still judging r1 based on videos over a year old, we recommend you watch this.
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straight out the box, r1 comes with… unlimited generative AI and unlimited creative magic ♾✨
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19 Nov 2024
No one has given more to their sport. Or left it all on the court every single time. @RafaelNadal, you showed us what it takes to be the greatest. It only takes everything.
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Let’s get something straight. Winning is winning. #Paris2024 #WinningIsntForEveryone @Paralympics
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day 1 of Modbox AR dev - Controlling Hue lights and shooting them out with a bow and arrow
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“A slave is he who cannot speak his thought,” said Euripides. True 2000 years ago. True today.
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‘I can think of nothing more American.’ — Beto O'Rourke — the man taking on Ted Cruz — brilliantly explains why NFL players kneeling during the anthem is not disrespectful
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FIRST LOOK: @Nike debuts outstanding ad using home video of nine-year-old @serenawilliams with father Richard from August 29, 1991
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Using #ProjectNorthStar to tap back in to physical reality. Lots of possibilities spring from combining #AR with #IoT. @tweethue
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