Terrible news, everyone: AI is learning how to post cringe
People like to argue that technology is value neutral; that it's neither inherently good nor inherently bad, but can simply be put to different uses. As a rebuttal, I'd like to direct the court's attention to exhibit a), a video of digital humans" rapping using AI-synthesized voices, that is intrinsically awful.
Indeed, I'd argue that the video above not only disproves the whole value-neutral thing, but makes a decent case for shutting down this technology" lark altogether and heading back to the trees before it's too late. What I mean is: AI is posting cringe and I don't like it.
Okay, so I'm being a little harsh here and the video is obviously a joke. It's the work of Replica, an AI startup that does interesting things with synthetic...