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>The sad part is my mother would love "remixing" my old child photos of me. How is that sad? Why is your mothers joy sad?

breezybottom 8d ago
Memory already declines with age. AI slop threatens to warp those memories further.
AyanamiKaine 8d ago
Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence. Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones. AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path. People will be depressed from it.
- m_fayer 8d ago
  There’s a wonderful Ted Chiang short story called “Anxiety is The Dizziness Of Freedom” that explores how people become enmeshed and addicted to alternate versions of how their life could have gone. It’s reminiscent of what you’re describing.
- ragequittah 8d ago
  I made an AI video of a picture of me when I was about 2. Had a huge smile on my face in the photo so as a lark I made a 5 second video of me laughing. The look in my mom's eyes when I showed her and the way she grabbed the phone from me to look closer was such a good moment. It's not an alternate reality. I was laughing at the time almost certainly. New ways of seeing old memories really needn't be depressing at all. It's so strange how so many people seem to only see the bad in a technology that can be used in countless different ways.
handbanana_ 8d ago
Why do you assume her joy is the sad part?
m_fayer 8d ago
Because elderly people who never had a connection to tech or sci-fi will have no feel for, and therefore no resistance to the kind of trickery that seems fun but is ultimately corrosive. Cheerfully meddling with the artifacts of memory at that life stage is corrosive.
72deluxe 7d ago
Because the mother's joy should hinge on the actual photo of the actual event of the actual person, not a fictional imaginary event or fake childhood of their child. The experience of being human should be tethered to reality.
- joquarky 6d ago
  There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".

breezybottom 8d ago

Memory already declines with age. AI slop threatens to warp those memories further.

AyanamiKaine 8d ago

Because she will pounder in old memories that never existed in the first place. Instead of cherrying the current times. Past moments of long gone time will be elongated beyond their actual existence. Imagine a time where a small moment is actually a smaller amount experienced then the remixed one. At one point you will have more memories of fake events, and more emotional beats for said fake events than real ones. AI videos showing you a second life if you just had chosen a different path. People will be depressed from it.

m_fayer 8d ago
There’s a wonderful Ted Chiang short story called “Anxiety is The Dizziness Of Freedom” that explores how people become enmeshed and addicted to alternate versions of how their life could have gone. It’s reminiscent of what you’re describing.
ragequittah 8d ago
I made an AI video of a picture of me when I was about 2. Had a huge smile on my face in the photo so as a lark I made a 5 second video of me laughing. The look in my mom's eyes when I showed her and the way she grabbed the phone from me to look closer was such a good moment. It's not an alternate reality. I was laughing at the time almost certainly. New ways of seeing old memories really needn't be depressing at all. It's so strange how so many people seem to only see the bad in a technology that can be used in countless different ways.

handbanana_ 8d ago

Why do you assume her joy is the sad part?

m_fayer 8d ago

Because elderly people who never had a connection to tech or sci-fi will have no feel for, and therefore no resistance to the kind of trickery that seems fun but is ultimately corrosive. Cheerfully meddling with the artifacts of memory at that life stage is corrosive.

72deluxe 7d ago

Because the mother's joy should hinge on the actual photo of the actual event of the actual person, not a fictional imaginary event or fake childhood of their child. The experience of being human should be tethered to reality.

joquarky 6d ago
There was once a wise man who said the devil surreptitiously added two words to the dictionary: "should" and "ought".