A friend sent three photos, with three outfits, “Which photo would you suggest for my LinkedIn page?” Before I noticed the clothes, I responded in amazement: “How did you get exactly the same angle and the same face in all three photos?” “It’s artificial intelligence.” She took a photo of herself looking beautiful and asked: “Basic black dress with exposed arms.” “White shirt, high collar.” “Beige blouse and green necklace with pendants.”
I didn’t know that these commands are called “quick”. A “prompt” is a request you make to the AI to create something. “I want a blue bear with a pretty face who dances lambadas and eats hot dogs at Portela Stadium.” “I want Einstein to fight MMA with Leonardo da Vinci in Benedetto Calixto Arena.”
The machine does that. It does everything wrong at first, because it is still more artificial than intelligent, but the more you adjust the “prompt”, the more you adjust the response. My friend, after some “prompting,” was ready for all three photos – even though she had three ears in the last photo. Bugs that will be fixed soon.
I kept thinking: Today my friend can dress however she wants in a LinkedIn photo. Soon, when everyone wears Meta or Open IA glasses or contact lenses, our images will no longer be as we please, but in the eyes (or lenses) of others. I imagine a wedding.
You have to wear a suit. I hate wearing suits. I wear shorts, a t-shirt and flip-flops. But I’m programming my AI to emulate other people’s AI in a very smart suit – and that’s how everyone will see me at the wedding.
Unless, of course, some people have filters in their visual AI. Let’s say my friend Rodriguez, who I skated with as a teenager, refuses to see anyone in a suit. He is against the lawsuit. He hates the suit. He has a “Skate or Die” tattoo on his chest. He decided to live in a world without suits. His lenses will change the clothes of everyone he encounters into what suits him best.
Rodriguez from Palmeiras. (green in this case). You can program the tool so that, on Palestra game days, you can see everyone you look at wearing Palmeiras. The Pope in a Palmeiras shirt.
Mona Lisa in a Palmeiras shirt. Jesus, on the cross, with a palm tree. And you can see all the people of Sao Paulo (your AI will know who the people of Sao Paulo are, unless the AI of the people of Sao Paulo has filters) with Bambi’s noses and horns.
Perhaps there is a filter in the AI’s glasses and lenses, the law of the land, that prohibits programming the vision of all São Paulo residents into Bambi, as that would be considered homophobic. Maybe this filter would automatically turn all the São Paulo residents that Rodriguez wanted to see into Bambi in the message “Homophobia is a heinous crime, seek help.”
It is possible that the AI lens can pull, from this anti-homophobia, many homophobic or anti-woke positions. It is possible for a person to be sued for what the algorithms made them see, after all, the algorithms are a combination of everything they think.
I told Marcio, my friend, about this vision for the future. He does not agree. People won’t want to see everyone at a party wearing the clothes they like. People want to be surprised, see different things, and learn. Unfortunately, I disagree. The first “motivator,” the most effective “motivator” in human history, said that God created us in His image and likeness.
Through our “smart” glasses or lenses, we will be able to see the world “in our image and likeness.” Anyone can be the god of their own world. Just look at what you want. Any way you want. Just like you. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what it really is. Only with better technology.
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