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Since when does bad art invalidate the technology used to produce it? The printing press has inflicted centuries of dreadful literature upon us, and real musicians playing real instruments produce appalling music every day. Yet somehow we've resisted declaring books and violins inherently evil. So I find it fascinating that you are able to turn a perfectly ordinary descriptive term like "AI" into a full-blown semantic and ontological crisis. An "AI choirboy" is, quite obviously, an artificial simulation of a choirboy. The adjective "AI" distinguishes it from actual human singers. You may insist that a choir must, by definition, consist of human beings, but that's hardly the philosophical triumph you seem to think it is. We manage to discuss things like artificial flowers without collapsing into metaphysical confusion. But where your post really derails is your denunciation of the technology as an idol to be hated, despised, and destroyed. Like a bible thumping preacher whipping his congregation into a frenzy. One half expects the faithful to drag the offending computer into the village square and burn it while you preside over the proceedings. A splendid spectacle, no doubt, though one suspects the Middle Ages might be a more congenial environment for such incendiary activities. "Crucify Him in the name of the Lord!" |