Exhibit Work
I often sit and think about the world we live in and how fast we are processing information in this new information laden age. Many of us wake up and assault ourselves with tons of information that often denigrates our own state of mind. While a lot of this is on us, a lot of this is also not on us. Our brains have been conditioned to want this information more and more. Technology has always been fascinating to me, and I have an undying interest in it as well, but as we grow closer and closer to a completely aware general purpose artificial intelligence model, I grow increasingly worried about how this will affect our society in which most information is fed to us in a way that may or may not influence significant parts of our decisions.
General purpose artificial intelligence models and generative artificial intelligence image models have become incredibly common as of late, and I much like many who use the internet daily, have used these models to my own benefit. AI cannot ask much of us, nor can it ask anything of us at all either. Maybe this is a good thing. However, one cannot deny that artificial intelligence is at a point where the window to regulate and secure AI models is closing incredibly fast. I am a firm believer that artists are important members of society that make sense of the world for us. Artists express their concerns, artists express their feelings, artists give voice to the inanimate, to the mute, to the silent. Artists are essential to every part of being human. Artificial Intelligence is only trained to mimic artistic skill.
Often, I see arguments mention that artificial intelligence will never take over humanity as we know it--and there may be some truth to that, but the issue for me is not how AI takes over humanity. I fear more of how AI may mimic us to create narratives that dissuade us into believing false narratives, believing that our experiences are invalid, believing that being human is wrong. Quantum computing is a way too complex topic to explain here, but I urge everyone to understand that our “classical” means of computing have no comparison to quantum computing. Quantum computing will change the way we compute any piece of information. Quantum computing is the leap a government could only dream for—much like the nuclear bomb was the leap that the United States so desperately wanted.
To close, my intent with this work is to get you, the viewer of this piece, to understand that this is not a warning from a conspiracy theorist. I simply want this piece to get us to think, are the narratives that these large tech corporations in Silicon Valley what we want? Are we only becoming the machines that spill our brains and how they work to the even larger machines that are designed to only create information endlessly? Think about a future where every image is not originally created, doesn’t have a meaning. Is this the world we want to accept?
