Artificial Intelligence severing human creative transmissions
I have worked in the creative digital sector for nearly 20 years. Witnessing on the front lines many passing trends and phases of the digital creative industry. We’ve gone from some of the most clunky, dial up modem rudimentary websites of the early 2000’s. To now AI creating full 4k HD video that is almost indistinguishable from reality. All of this has occurred in a very short space of time.
Sora AI
Over the last few weeks there has been an explosive buzz with the promotion of OpenAI’s latest video platform Sora. Having worked with digital imagery for so long, I assume my image side of my mind is maybe more developed than most. Up until now, I found it relatively easy able to tell if an image or video was produced by AI. There were always tell tale signs.
OpenAI are continuing to release a selection of videos showcasing Sora’s potential capabilities. Some of the example videos have included a Japanese woman walking through a city streets at night, puppies playing in the snow, and close up of a very intricate exotic bird. It appears that AI created video has crossed into the zone of being nearly indistinguishable from our own reality when assessing it via the naked human eye.
There are so many aspects of our reality that are going to completely change due to the introduction of AI to the global collective. In my opinion it may not be for the positive. It obviously is an amazing technology and it is equally breath taking how quickly these AI tools have developed in a short space of time. In one way its sophistication is exciting, but I have been thinking deeply, and potentially mourning the dwindling and ultimately severed organic human connection that creativity and artwork can bring to our consciousnesses.
The creative human operator
In my view whenever we draw a picture, write a word. In fact any line, photograph, shape, or paint smudge has been made by a human. Whether you’re using analogue tools such as a pencil, pen or paints. Or more digital based tools such as a digital camera, or a computer based device. What I’m saying is creative content has always relied on a human operator.
I have come to understand creative work is an inherent human transmission, a portal of communication that echos out to the world. The creativity leads back to a conscious being with hopes, dreams, and ideas. A complex kaleidoscope of emotions and memories for us to interact with.
In occult teachings, symbols or logos carry ideas. They trigger concepts within us. Sometimes these can be beneficial but unfortunately they can also be harnessed, misused to trick and entrain. Imagery carries so much potential and power. The human creative transmission operates on so many different multidimensional levels.
Remote viewing
Recently I’ve been practicing my remote viewing skills. The process involves taking a set of randomly generated co-ordinates which relate to a location, situation or even a person. From these co-ordinates the viewer quickly sketches small simple ideogram, the trick is to not let the conscious mind intellectualise these quick sketches.
These icon type sketches can represent people, structures, or even geographical elements. The viewer can then rest the pen on the ideogram sketch, feeling into the drawing. It creates a real world connection between the viewer and the subject. If it’s a structure the viewer can pick up elements in their mind such as the shape, colour and texture of that structure.
Using the remote viewing as an example I’m trying to show how deeply powerful these very simple sketches are, and again, each, line, shape, smudge is a portal, a portal to a specific point in space time, a location, or even a simple thought form.
AI now interestingly has severed that connection between the art, the creative process and the real life context or person.
Questions and conclusions
Question… What does this mean spiritually if these creative transmissions are being manifested by machines. Does this mean humanity is slowly descending more and more into a transhumanist future. Where we now outsource creative thought, emotion and expression to artificiality? Resultantly how will this affect the collective human consciousness?
Technology is now so pervasive, the breakdown of human connection between families, friends and colleges is widening all the time as we are pushed more and more to spend most of our lives behind a screen interfacing with a 2D environment rather than the real world.
Even though many of us spend a significant amount of time behind a screen, there was still a thread of soft organic human connection via the creator. The operator at the other end, leading the creative transmission. A real tangible organic connection even though the medium, the conduit, is artificial.
But with AI now being the content creator, the muse, what does this mean? How will it effect humanity physically, mentally, emotionally, even spiritually?
Will this over dominance towards artificial AI, lead to atrophy of the human collective creative consciousness. If we rely too much on these tools will there be an unfortunate conscience?
Let’s hope humanity finds away to delicately and thoughtfully navigate these new waters.
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