Its gonna be really, really uh... I'm gonna use the word 'funny'...

... when in 10-20 years, and the entire global economy all around the world is utterly collapsing due to unmitigated climate change incurring devastating economic damages to all sectors, basically everywhere, in broadly predictable but not specifically or locally accurately predictable ways, with new waves of tens of thousands, millions to tens of millions of people trying to flee to somewhere food is actually affordable... every season or month or week...

... well your connection to the AI, to wifi, to mobile networks... will just get turned off, infrastructure broken for the last time with no planned repair... or your device will be broken and fixing it is impossible because they stopped making the parts 5 years ago, would cost too much anyway, and it also doesn't matter because you were late on your subscription payment to the AI provider.

Everyone who is being trained to be dependent on something like chatGPT instead of using and developing their brains, everyone with brainrot who is dependent on constant injections of short form content.... they are basically going to go feral in a decade or two when they are now 30ish, have negative attention spans, are functionally illiterate, and are now utterly unable to function as anything other than manual labor, violent gangs or performative clowns of some kind.

...

i am beyond the grief stage of realizing we will not solve climate change, so it is funny to me when people assume our future is 'weird, less interesting cyberpunk dystopia', when it will be much more...

...billions died in the middle and latter parts of the 21st century, and most of the world reverted to Fallout style barbarism, only a few islands of 'stability' remained, and they were largely ethno-supremecist and highly authoritarian.

Games now have a mix of real voice actors and AI and every time it's AI my brain hurts and tries to crawl out through my ear

LMAO we are at the point that social security systems (bigger ponzi scheme ever) all over the world are at the verge of collapse due to the stress of an aging population, and this dude not only thinks they will be able to have kids and send them to something resembling a school by 2040, but also worrying about a potential AI future where they will more likely not be a part of given the 3 years takeoff curve.

I have no mouth and I must KEK

Well, I once got a callback from a mobile operator support rep, and she was speaking so perfectly (tone, pauses, the way she built sentences, everything), that our conversation came out like:

• Booooring! Give me human. Human operator. O-pe-ra-tor! Person!
• I'm sorry, but you will have to deal with the fact I'm real lol
• !!!
  I don't know what she was doing at a call center, because that was a professional voiceover or advertisement level

We’re already at the point that many people post- millennials actively prefer AI, that preferencd increasing with younger age. They’re the new boomers consuming whatever information is placed in front of them with no corroboration, nuance or fact checking.

We're at the point where late teens/early adults don't have the ability to navigate a file structure and you expect them to be able to decode AI video breathing patterns.

We're beyond super fucked.

nah, it's going to be the opposite.

if other computer technology has been anything to go off of then only those who lived through is adaption and watched it progress will know how to spot it. those who grow up with hard to spot ai will just accept that they can't see it and think we're weird for trying so hard to prove things are ai. they'll also think we're weird for caring.

our boomer trait will be doing art instead of asking ai to generate images and video, or wanting things made by people when the ai generated thing is "good enough".

we'll be getting eyerolls for gifting a nice art set or a camera to our niblings. we'll embarrass our grandkids when we get upset at the ai point of sale system that mcdonalds starts using. "back in my day they had big touch screens where you could manually select your toppings on the burger, now you just yell into a box and MAYBE gets it right"

actually, if social media tech is anything to go on we won't even have that much control. your order will be algorithm based. chosen for you based on your recent ad footprint. the ai obviously knows what you want better than you do. the kids won't see it as weird. they'll transition straight from their parents deciding their meals to corporations doing the same, but we're going to hate it. the corps will push it anyway because it's so massively profitable with the demographics that like it and every restaurant will be owned by like 2 companies. they'll just force it on everyone else. we'll bitch about it, but most people will still keep going.

edit: had more thoughts on this in the shower.

we'll get to the point where we barely even have to pick a place to eat. there will be 2 apps. one owned by disneycokemcdonsldsalibaba, one owned by pepsifoxraytheonamazon. we will all be either a coke person or a Pepsi person and will likely just follow whichever brand our parents did. they'll be inherently political and each have a sponsored candidate in every election. it will define the entire world you live in. when it's time to eat you get a notification and the app orders you your meal.

it'll start as a service for when you can't decide what to eat then after it gets a critical mass of users it will start to enshitify into forcing what you eat before selling to the disney megacorp who will then push it into everything they own.

this is only for the rich people that these brands cater towards of course. we who would have once been creatives will be working manual labor at the camps for the underemployed. afterall, we're better off with the structure. it helps us be productive towards society. it's what's best for us....