That addiction is undoubtedly many decades deep, like it is for most of us

carb and sugar addiction

Bleak indeed.

This probably reads as dinosaur talk to the converts, but, as I've said elsewhere about all these kinds of things, playing an instrument in a group is, at minimum, fun. Fussing with prompts at a black box that would happily burn Jupiter for a country song is, at maximum, sad.

Very well-put: "something that reminds you of recorded music"

Yes, but I also don't understand the popularity of prominently featuring the entirety of your huge microphone on screen either.

aha, didn't know that!

by Joshua Oppenheimer (not Herzog)

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc