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Does knowing that he is not real really make a difference for you to enjoy the music and story? I haven't worked out what I think about AI boys yet. I find myself watching them with an obsessive need to feel I can still pick the fake from the real. I THINK there's still a discernible difference, but it's getting pretty fucking small. When I find out I've been suckered, and didn't realise the boy was AI, I feel a reflex jolt of annoyance, as if I've been tricked in some demeaning way. But we'll probably get used to the fact that screen visuals are inherently ambiguous, cannot be equated with reality. That might ultimately be an improvement on our naive trust in visual information. Look at the photograph that has instantly become the "real" Prince Andrew. No different to an AI put-up job, really. We'll adjust to it. It won't be long and all movies and tv shows will be whipped up on a AI laptop. It's not like movies don't need a new source of creative energy, so I'm looking forward to seeing what emerges. But boys and reality?...further disconnecting that nexus is not the most comforting of thoughts... |