AI is Out of Control

T-800 Series Terminator

According to Google, AI is expected to eliminate 100 million U.S. jobs within a decade. Let that sink in.

But, you know, that’s probably AI talking.

Artists and AI are at constant odds with each other. AI will consume an author’s book and write a completely different book, using the author’s tone, voice, style, and name. The same goes for works of art and music. Some AI jockey posted a Blues version of Coolio’s Gangster’s Paradise. I had to force myself not to like it.

Actors of all types are concerned that studios may resort to using AI actors. The movie and television industry is nothing like it used to be, but if this happens, you can stick a fork in Hollywood.

You’ve probably seen totally AI-generated TV commercials, and you didn’t even know it. I can spot them pretty quickly. How? My Spidey Sense starts tingling.

Schools are trying to stop (or catch) their students from using AI on their assignments with an “AI scanner.” Using AI to find AI. That’s like enlisting a Mafia boss to testify against the family.

AI video rendering technology has advanced to the point that it’s hard to tell what’s real or what’s not. People are being fooled at an alarming rate, and our reality is in jeopardy.

Here are some things that AI has made people believe:

An elderly woman hand-feeds a grizzly bear on her front porch. Regularly.

Jake Paul, social media personality and sometimes boxer, came out as gay and is marketing his own line of makeup (not totally unbelievable, but in this case, totally untrue).

The Joy of Painting’s Bob Ross once applied face paint to the WWE’s Ultimate Warrior.

House cats bravely defending their owner’s children from vicious mountain lions.

A woman eating a pizza in a parking lot was attacked by a herd of goats. There’s nothing strange about that at all.

Dogs driving cars, being pulled over by cops, then speeding away during initial questioning.

Mr. Rogers and Tupac were homies and hung out in the neighborhood. On the regular.

Speaking of Mr. Rodgers, I saw a video of him wearing one of his trademark sweaters, sitting quietly in his living room, and then he says, “Man, I really gotta pinch a loaf.”

Rabbits, raccoons, and white-tailed deer venture in from the forests at night and jump on homeowners’ backyard trampolines.

I’m not even going to go into the number of dead celebrities AI has brought back from the grave. That’s just wrong and disrespectful.

Although... the Marilyn Monroe stuff is pretty awesome. Again, forcing myself to hate it.

This list doesn’t even scratch the surface of AI videos currently out there on the internet. In a conversation with my son about AI, he posed the question, “Why are they doing this?”

It’s like Jeff Goldblum’s line in the movie Jurassic Park: “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” 

Don’t believe everything you see.