So imagine you have a bunch of photos on your phone, and then some software finds all your photos from your recent vacation to Brazil, automatically creates a slideshow out of it, and then generates a video where while the slideshow is scrolling, there’s 2 AI podcast hosts talking about your life in the photos. Specifically in this scenario, the vacation to Brazil
One clear reason I can piece together is that it’s narcissistic to want 2 AI humans to talk about your own photos like that
But there’s also something deeply unsettling about this that I can’t exactly piece together. I’m not against generating an AI podcast for like study notes or something for you to listen to while driving or cooking, but it’s super weird if it’s on your own photos right?
Is it the fact that it’s weird to just listen to AI voices talk about your photos and yourself? Like it’s some sort of artificial social interaction?
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
Not only that but your experiences are essentially being sold back to you as a product. The motivations that brought you to that specific point in time and space, the emotions that you may have felt there, the memory of being itself - repackaged and shat out from a soulless statistical process solely for the purposes of enriching hogs.
You vastly overestimate how interesting and intelligent the people making the decisions for this product are
ah right, the type of people who only travel for the gram and don’t really engage with the culture of the place they’re visiting anyway. imagine having the resources to go anywhere in the world and getting nothing out of it except some content for the slop factory. very cool