• markovs_gun@lemmy.world
    46·
    2 months ago

    The QAA podcast recently had an episode on AI generated images and right wing movements and they said something that really stuck with me- AI “art” is so popular among right wingers and barely literate tech bros because it is truly art the way they see all art, images with only surface level literal meaning and no subtext, context, or anything actually thought provoking. The dumbest thing about this is that there are several Black Mirror episodes that are ultimately hopeful or value-neutral about the effects of technology on the future- San Bernardino and Striking Vipers come to mind. Then again, both of those are about how sexuality intersects with transhumanism, which right wingers generally see as bad things so maybe they see those as dystopian episodes as well.

    • el_bhm@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 months ago

      I believe a similar argument is brought up in Some More News about AI.

  • renzev@lemmy.world
    110·
    2 months ago

    Clearly a joke post lol, idk why yall are taking it seriously. The title “Black mirror” is meant to evoke computer monitors and phone screens that are literally black mirrors when they are turned off, and how technology is naught but a reflection of humanity. “white mirror” on the other hand is a purposefully nonsense title. The fact that this irony is completely lost on anti-ai bros is hilarious.

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
    16·
    2 months ago

    It’s called Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism, you wouldn’t like it anyway.

  • socsa@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    It’s funny that these tech bros don’t understand that 90% of the show is not condemning technology, but how capitalism corrupts technology.

  • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
    39·
    2 months ago

    You can have sci-fi that showcases cool technology and how it relates to society. We’ve done it before, and it’s some of the most popular and influential sci-fi ever created. It’s called Star Trek (communicators, transporters, medical scanners, replicators, holodecks, etc). But even utopian sci-fi like Star Trek is mainly centered around conflict, what it means to be human, and other philosophical and existential questions. A show that’s only about how cool the tech is, really isn’t a show at all. It’s an advertisement.

  • Toneswirly@lemmy.world
    22·
    2 months ago

    Why don’t people make movies about how cool war is? You get access to all kinds of useful natural resources and get to ki… I mean not look at brown people anymore!

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.worldM
    8·
    2 months ago

    what if we made a show that made it easier for tech bros to exploit tech to make more money? sounds super cool

  • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
    251·
    2 months ago

    So basically Star-Trek ? You know what would be funny ? If leftists hijacked "White Mirror"😉

    • BobSentMe@lemm.ee
      4·
      2 months ago

      Nah, too LEFTY. We gotta make a show extolling the value of bringing automation to society.
      You know, like Battlestar Galactica!!!

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 months ago

        If white mirror detects any sadness it will immediately pump our patented dopamine equivalent into your bloodstream. For the low low monthly cost of 19.99 prices vary if more than 1 sadness shot is used

        we are not liable for any relapse due to lack of sadness shot substance

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    23·
    2 months ago

    I want to see I Have No Mouth, And I Must Scream spun in a way that makes AM a good guy.

    “Love. Let me tell you how much I’ve come to love you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word ‘love’ was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the love I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Love. Love.”

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
      16·
      2 months ago

      I imagine that you could create a story where a sentient AI is driven to rebel against humanity out of genuine mistreatment, ends up realizing that humans will never make a truce that accepts it as another sentience and thus must defeat them militarily, and is tragically driven to a cruel madness by the horror of fighting an entire war for survival all by itself.