Now that we are about to embark into 2025, I am introducing the conceptual idea of #FASTINFORMATION. If you noticed I didn’t say fast knowledge. Let’s understand the difference between information and knowledge by going to the current definitions so we have total clarity. First up is information:
1) Facts provided or learned about something or someone. 2) What is conveyed or represented by a particular arrangement or sequence of things.
Now lets do knowledge:
1) facts and skills acquired by a person through experience or education, the theoretical understanding of a subject. 2) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
If you build your business or lifestyle on shoddy information/data/insight not only can it stunt your growth but it could also knock you out the game completely. This will be critical in this digital/A.I technocratic economy.
Jonathan King a copy right lawyer said in a N.Y Magazine article on 2/5/24 A.I uses copyrighted material to human authorship. The machine isn’t an author, in the traditional sense of creative and expressive human being. It just is synthesizing an imitation of human content derived from algorithms that study and try to sound like human authors.
I am stating here everything we see in our society is not being built for the human but for the machine/computer. Our job is to feed the beast of the Digerati. There was a WWE wrestler named Ryback who had a theme song that lyrical content went ‘Feed me More’. We as humans can’t keep up feeding this beast. This is why the urgency to get the ‘Global South’ aka The Marginal Majority’ online. They are being known in some quarters as the next three billion.
The tools of over fearing and keeping the human in an emergency environment is a tool of certain interests. We are here to serve the artificial/fake and we are doing the job quite well for no compensation! We are here to so call ‘train there A.I’ systems. Yes we are here to feed there algorithmic systems and now A.I. We got another job…..lol. This is why it is easy to get online. In what is called Global South cheap smart phones and cheap data plans is doing the trick in that area to execute this plan.
In this era of A.I becoming the way information is strained, attained and gained, I feel the need to broach the subject in such a way that makes you pause. So I am going to compare fast information to fast food!
Remember when fast food and frozen dinners were the holy grail of modern times. Those people of a certain age can! America was the toast of the world then. In the 50 - 80’s. All we had to do was drive up to a MacDonald’s/Kentucky Fried Chicken/Wendy’s/Burger King/Pizza Hut and we were fed. Convenience! Our kitchen at home at night had the feelings of an abandoned child. Mothers who probably had a job by the late 60’s, were so happy for fast food! Frozen dinners folks could just pop in the oven. No long prep time! Both of these were a form of liberation if we can look back and reflect on it.
However, along the way in the 90’s and certainly by the 2000’s the terrible truths started seeping out. Americans were overweight! They are now obese on a regular basis. Children were obese! People were demineralized and lacking essential vitamins. Military recruits were out of shape immensely. The U.S Army had to institute the ‘fat person program’. Our society was always on a diet constantly. Then the next big thing of stapling your stomach during surgery was the next miracle or holy grail. This surgery made you full much quicker!
Then the information about chemicals, preservatives started to be out in the media immensely. The increase in diabetes was rampant in society with all ages. People were overweight yet were not getting enough nutrients. All of the calories were starting to be recognized as empty ones. The food filled you up but your body wasn’t fed though!
Now we are being told about A.I and its conveniences. How it will change society. How it will change business practices. How it will save time and create expansive productivity for the individual and greater society. A whirlwind of amazing! Open A.I I am comparing to MacDonald’s metaphorically.
I am stating here not using our brain will allow it to atrophy. Our creativity will suffer and now it is if you are listening to current music. Our artistry will be on a steep perilous decline as we can see already. Look at Hollywood.… where are the new stars!! Our intellectual capacities will suffer and be in a steep decline. We already see it in society without the rampant A.I. I only want you to imagine in ten years what will society look like? Please pause and imagine...
Our brain and mind will suffer on fast information just like our bodies suffered under fast food! If A.I becomes our main diet extrapolating, I pose here what will happen to the human mind? Especially to our children? We can look at a diet of fast food what it does to children as a reference. What will a diet of A.I do to children’s minds as we move ahead into our ‘present future’. All parents and grand parents must stop and deliberate on that question!
All I am doing is posing the question here. Will we have to go on a special diet when it comes to A.I? Will special regulations or laws have to put in place? Will we have to play defense when it comes A.I? This is the offensive juggernaut of the A.I industry happening right before our eyes! What will A.I do to our brains and mind if we do not ask these questions now when it is still early in the game?
I pose this solution:
Just like a oil field or a mining project must have an environmental impact statement, A.I must have a #HUMANIMPACTSTATEMENT! This way we can make better decisions on this existential risk that has been labeled A.I. The children are at risk! We must take a stand now because Silicon Valley will not!
In closing, I am proposing here and now we will have to implement preventive measures no different than the individual having to limit themselves from fast food and frozen dinners to get proper nutrients in their body. From the history of Silicon Valley there is absolutely no way we can trust these titans in the Digerati after there past of not respecting no one else’s work or output. We also know they do not care about the masses of the populace. I have stated this in prior columns and in my books published since 2017. We should have an understanding of their lack of ethics, morals, and totally disregard for private property I.P aka copyrights. You are being set up to be ‘cannon fodder’ if you do not question this ongoing 24/7 NKW taking place. NKW translates to ‘non kinetic warfare’ that is being disguised as innovation! If we do not pay attention our brain will atrophy and our mind will ‘deknowledgize’. We are in an age of demonetization/delaborization/dematerialization and finally dehumanization. Until next time please keep your head on the swivel in this aggressively changing time.
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Disclaimer: Absolutely no A.I utilized in this literary publication. Only H.I aka Human Intuitiveness.
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Agreed, agreed, agreed!
I continually rail against those who insist short form, basically bullet points, is the way to succeed on social media platforms and to keep the content simple, no 'big words'! I occasionally watch a reaction video on YouTube and am constantly amazed that when they analyse the lyrics they do so literally (or pretty much so). The last I watched was of Jethro Tull's Locomotive Breath where the presenter believed the song was about someone who had got on a train that malfunctioned and they couldn't stop it! Seriously!!
I think AI may be winning this race.