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Spooky A.I. World
19. April 2023

The speeding advancement in Artificial Intelligences worries me a lot. Mainly I'm talking here about programs, that can generate pictures and texts with the push of a button.


Why is something like this even developed? Don't writers and artist have it already hard enough? Now they also have to compete against computer programs, that do the same work, that might take a human months, in a couple of seconds.

But as for so many why-questions, the answer is: that it makes money, or someone expects to make a lot of money. Completely ignoring possible consequences.

By the way, drugs are being sold on the basis of the same despicable motive.


I have once seen a League of Legends match. One on one. A professional player vs an AI.

The player had no chance.

How could he even have one?

In preparation the AI "played" millions of games to learn and improve itself. Pure emotionless mathematical optimisation. A human can't compete with that, even if he would have played the same amount of games.


Sure, at the moment we are not quite at the point where an AI could write a whole book. But looking at the speed the development is happenig at, we might be there at the end of the year.

I dont want to read a book, that was put together by a computer program. By an algorithm, that "read" millions of texts before and then, based on mathematical observations, uses the best parts to form a new text. Even if it might be a good book at the end. A book written by a machine, is just a book without magic.


So, what do we do?

I believe the only way forward is through an obligation to mark artificially generated creations. Like Influencers have to tell, when they get paid for a commercial, we should have the right to know, whether a text or picture was created by a human or a machine.

This might also reduce the abuse of such computer programs a little bit.

I don't like to think about what would happen without such an obligation.

Perhaps I worry a bit too much and everything will develop differently than I think. But I might also worry too little. It is hard to tell at the moment.


Let's hope it'll develop to be alright.

A little update
25. May 2022

Chapters 8 and 9 of the Vailen Colony story are written, but I have encountered some difficulties about how to continue the story. I do know however, where the story is supposed to go, but I am not yet sure of how to get there.

And because I am so unsure, I decided to first write the whole story, before I put another chapter online. This way, I can rewrite the later chapters, if that becomes necessary.

This means, sadly it'll take a little longer, until the story continues. But when it continues, it will go all the way to the end.

Hello
02. May 2022

Finally I made it! The website is done and everything seems to be working. Yay!

Even though I already have ideas about all the things I could change. But I'll leave it as is for now. I first would like to code something else, before I continue to change the website.

I have not only looked at the code of the website, but also through the stories, that I had put online so far. I haven't changed much in those. Only switched here and there some wordings, in the hope, that it would get a little better to read.

Hopefully it won't take long, until I finish the next story. I still have a hard time writing, but lately I made some progress in that regard, which makes me slightly optimistic.

The only thing left for me to do is, to wish, that you are having a lot of fun with my website. And hopefully, it won't fall apart.

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