The general political and economic climate of the world would be too exaggerated to be Tom Clancy fiction 30 years ago.

I wouldn't have put money on us ending up with dystopian cyber-punk future but it's looking more and more like that's what we are going to get every year.

Finally, an answer to my question.

Q: Are these videos created by humans, or just AIs?
A: Is there any fucking difference at this point? Has there ever really been?

Was supposed to be a separate comment, but what the hell, sci-fi is sci-fi and the mirror sure is looking black.

I've had to review these professionally. Our decision was that there's likely a Git-type central database of CGI modelling that can be accessed by a logorithm to create videos as requested. There's probably about 15 years of amateur CGI modelling files that has been deposited somewhere by well-meaning nobodies who were tinkering around in their spare time, now accessed by robots.

Okay if its impossible to tell the difference between ai and humans in these videos does that mean we've reached a weird youtube singularity? Are these videos going to be in the history books? Will the future of pop culture be pregnant Spiderman frozen elsa Bateman hulk attack learn colors finger family? Will we communicate with sentient ai in this way?

Language and culture are defined by how the people in question create and use it.

As AIs get more intelligent, they will be, more or less, "People" as far as these metrics are concerned.

You've slightly misstated things.

Language and culture are defined by the back & forth of how people create & use it. There is no "back and forth" between these AIs & real people; it's effectively a one-directional communication.

The fact that the work of AIs & people is almost indistinguishable doesn't mean that the AIs are almost people; it indicates just how impoverished most online discourse really is.

LOL FIRST!

We thought AI would evolve to our level. We guessed the wrong group and the wrong direction.

I was joking with my singularity comment, I thought people would get it.

this guy is depressing the shit out of me

I've been following this guy for a while now. He's usually not this depressing, although he is (IMO) always this interesting.

I just meant like, what he chose to do with his life