AI has made the world a sadder place

AI has made the world a sadder place. I don't care what it does for you – I really don't – a bunch of us are watching from behind, puzzled, wondering why all the fun of making, trying, experimenting, failing and learning has been robbed away from us.

"Yeah but now we can all be makers!" don't! Don't be a maker. Don't bring your goddamn app, website or whatever the hell you're thinking of into this world.

That was the last defense against the proliferation of the slop: you had to learn a trade, and you brought your own experience in, your own influences, and you learned and you made mistakes and you fixed them and then you repeat and you had a thing.

It was never about the result! The result is just the last version of the creative process, when the hand stops mid-air and says "that's it".

You know what creating without doing feels like? It's like masturbating to porn. You reach the same conclusion but fuck me is it dull, cheap and absolutely void of any real pleasure.

The world needs slowing down, sobering up, less advertisement and accessible forms. It does not need to spit out content that's been robbed by a handful of sickeningly powerful companies and whose ultimate ruse was to make the robots go: "excellent idea, let me build it for you". Everyone gets its own slave, isn't that fucking wonderful?

At least it's not human blood this time, though believe me that blood is going to start pumping hard when we notice water is getting scarce in however many years of suffocatingly hot summers we summon.

So screw your AI, and screw everyone who jumped on the ship without a single thought towards artists, makers, dreamers, and everyone who found the joy in focusing for more than a fucking second onto the thing they were making.

That happy place of recluse is gone, here comes the part where we carefully navigate every other AI article, drink the kool-aid in small sips and hopefully find an eventual way to check out of this gigantic wank fest orchestrated by the usual suspects: white middle-aged men whose greed and lack of empathy is perfectly compatible with a career in IT where they've been thriving better than ever.

I think I've reached the end of my career in IT. The other day my colleague related some fun question he'd heard: if a career is 10-year long, what other careers would you do? I think it's a fascinating idea. I started answering with "well I've done 15 years in IT" and he smiled and said "5 years too long this one". It haunts me.