askchapo

I think it's because the action of showing off your vacation photos and talking about them is something that's established in our culture as a social thing. Yeah we've all joked about how lame it can be to sit through someone's vacation slides when they just go on forever and ever, but for every one of those social interactions there's a hundred where you just make small talk while flipping through and holding your phone for someone to see and it's a moment of human connection and sharing your life with another person.

The AI process takes that same activity and strips all of the meaning from it, rendering it uncanny. It reminds me of the androids in Nier who are emulating the visual aesthetics of human society but don't really understand why they're doing it.

I would like that even less than I would like random actual humans viewing my shit on the internet and making up my life story about it

It makes me feel profoundly lonely to think about. It's like having a tea party with your stuffed animals only you're watching from the other room as a shadow does it for you.

AI's propensity towards hyper-individualism. don't people listen to podcasts to learn something about the world outside of themselves, to hear someone else's story or perspective? this need for content so specifically geared towards oneself just shouts "main character syndrome"

also I just can't imagine how an AI-generated podcast based on your vacation pics would even be interesting to listen to. why would you want to hear a fake person relay your own memories back to you based on something as superficial as a photograph? surely your actual lived experience is deeper and more valuable than what some algorithm assumes from a bunch of pixels

and of course it will inevitably say something wrong, probably often. maybe the AI identifies a fruit stand in your photos and the artificial host says something about how strong the smell of strawberries was, except you don't actually remember smelling strawberries. maybe it's been awhile so you think "hm I guess it did smell like strawberries " and the AI just implanted a false memory. disturbing stuff lol

AI discusses document that just says Poo Poo Pee Pee

something deeply unsettling

I think it's that it puts even more solipsism right in the middle of the phone->human dopamine loop

It's like giving up the ability to have your own experience, and instead getting someone else (in this case an AI) to tell you what it is you did. It is unsettling.

ngl i would probably use it once out of morbid curiosity like how i check in on this for a couple minutes every month or so lol

It is weird and kinda sad, notebooks exist, if you want to write thoughts on trip. i don't know what ai lying will accomplish, make person mad on "that's not what happened"? create fake memories over time?

that's not a real feature, is it? Like, in those newer phones that are advertised as coming with AI built into the software?