prediction: western society will fall (lol) into a severe technocratic hellscape > ai will wipeout all mid-skilled desk jobs by the end of the decade > millions whom fell for the college-education pipeline meme will be stranded and crushingly indebted (right now i know 2 people with 5-year degrees working as garbage men since it pays more) > boom, 2nd great depression hits like a truck, making the og one look like 2008 > u.s. slowly deteriorates into a hyper-differentiated caste system like poopy-land india (except it resembles the dilapidated rust belt but nationwide) > billions of bots will advance dead internet theory into an inescapable norm, fooling most of the general midwitted-and-shrinking iq population into adopting absurd and/or politically pushed narratives (like we have today but on steroids) > ai-generated movies and television with ai-generated uncancellable controversy-free celebrities mass-produced by the second. 40 new capeshit films released by disney per day. fuck it, you can personalize the films and insert yourself in it too like modding video games > at one point there will be a turning point where the average person trusts an ai more than another person when it comes to medical advice/diagnosis, legal counseling, life skills, etc. all education will boil down to ai generated teachers (covid proved that anyone can get a degree from a respected university by watching lecture recordings and taking online tests) > "ai wranglers" will become a new profession: those who can vet models into producing optimal results without truly understanding the inner mechanisms, like cowboys taming the herd > global war over the microprocessor factories like it's the new holy land just thinking out loud here, but i haven't been wrong before
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