Don’t fall asleep first at the sleepover if you don’t want to get the sharpie of shame

Having a worker of any kind cuts into the profits they can hope to extract before literally everyone else who can push the same “make bad image” button pushes that button.

That’s what I mean by that line. It’s primary contradiction of capitalism 2.0. They’re chasing that perfect moment where they get maximum profits with minimal inputs, ideally cutting the workers out entirely. But the moment that happens, everyone can do it so the competitive advantage goes away completely. The workers can’t buy it and the product is so ratfucked that they don’t even want it so demand flattens and they have a crisis of overproduction. Their starting point is that crisis and their product began as ersatz kitsch that I can generate endless customised versions of for free. The only AI “innovations” we see are desperate attempts to add another contraption to the mechanical turk. this one can sound like that movie from 2013 and tlel you what burrito is just like googling “what is tortilla snake food” in 2003.

Another way to look at it, if text is the only thing holding these things from making enormous amounts of ads and other digital content for whatever purpose, solving the text problem makes it go from taking a few seconds of human input per image to literally 0. If it takes literally 0 human input it asymptotically increases how much slop they produce to a ridiculous extent.

And the end game of that is going to be having completely unique ads constantly generated by AI that are then A/B tested against one another with generations of ads being phased out based on engagement levels and used to train the next wave of ads. Humans will optimise these ads over and over and over and over and over and over and over. The smallest mutations with each generation as it gets more and more and more optimal at reaching a target market.

Hyper optimised advertising at a level that is unachievable with human editors with permutations of ads that only the fever dreams of an AI can fart out because a human would literally never consider sticking 3 random thumbs and a pinkie sticking out the side of a coca cola can that for some unknown bizarre reason people will click on again and again.