how many hours per week do you scroll through instagram or your social media swiper of choice watching beautiful people shake or flex their bodies for you or throw amazing basketball shots or do backflips off cliffs, and how many times do you pause and think is that real? – the number of times for me has been sharply increasing over the past couple years. ai has made it incredibly easy to fake anything. the number of fake videos and fake people and fake animals and fake landscapes, fake celebrity pictures, fake everything is rising at an exponential rate. the real is becoming drowned out. the rule and exception are in the process of swapping. i have found myself losing interest (though it’s true i had little interest to begin with) in swiping through this increasingly fake series of videos and images. what is the point? why do i care about what amounts to a drawing of someone doing an incredible feat or crazy stunt, or drawings of very pretty people, or drawings of strange animals or beautiful landscapes. but it’s even worse than looking at drawings. if they were drawings at least the act of creating the drawing would contain some human interest. as it stands, i find myself rapidly losing patience for all that cavalcade of attractions yelling for my attention with their carnival enthusiasm. if any of it could be and increasingly is fake, then why bother looking at all?
Writing about writing and reading
Jonas David 