…but not just for the reasons that Casey Neistat shares in this video.
Absolutely, I agree that AI is going to kill creative industries. And that’s both scary and sad. Progress is moving so quickly these days that we’re struggling to keep up with it and even worse, we’re struggling to keep up with what its effects might be.
But this particular app is bad news, and not just because of the slop that is replacing decent video-making (beautifully explained by Casey, by the way). Not just because of the bullying aspect that he touches on in the video. Not just because it’s just going to fill up our timelines with yet heaps more utter shite, hiding all the (ever-decreasing) decent stuff.
I’m more concerned by just how good this is at what it does. This is going to fool a lot of people and it will absolutely be used nefariously to fool a lot of people. Whether that’s in politics, in phishing scams or in personal relationships, giving the average voter* access to this sort of technology will not end well.
Tipping point stuff.
* “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill