Country musician ERNEST said Friday that he chose the title for one of the songs on his latest album after using an artificial intelligence simulator.
In what feels like one of the first of many dominoes to fall in the stride toward normalized use of artificial intelligence (AI), country music star ERNEST said that he chose the title “This Fire” for one of his songs after using an AI simulator. In conversation with the Bobby Jones show, ERNEST said that he put country song titles into the system and got a list of song titles back.
“This Fire” was the second title spat out by the machine, and ERNEST liked it so much he made it part of his music history. For those who don’t know, ERNEST is one of the biggest song writers in country music at this moment, having scripted for artists like Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt, and Jelly Roll, and Kane Brown. He’s also going on tour with Morgan Wallen in 2023, suggesting he’s got the skills to not rely on a machine, but chose to anyway.
Herein lies the domino: the faster we start relying on AI to tell us what to do, like ERNEST did (albeit harmlessly), the faster we lose the skills that keep us alive and thriving. Humans are not actually the intellectual beings we think we are; our skills and the success of our societies is inherently dependent on the retention and advancement of knowledge. But leaning on AI can make it inherently easy to let go of creative and essential data for our survival.
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@JohnFBachman I think you’ll enjoy this one… https://t.co/3VABGOqp7f
— KAY SMYTHE (@KaySmythe) January 26, 2023
Don’t believe me? How many of you know how to make a cake without Googling a recipe or using exact scales? Better yet, how many of you know how to make a cake by collecting the ingredients from yours and your neighbor’s land? Hardly any of you, but your grandparents knew how to do it all, from picking up the eggs, churning the butter, and milling the flour.
Supermarkets made it easy for our parents generation to purchase these items instead of walking outside to get them fresh (I’m in my late 20s, for reference). Electric scales meant we no longer weighed our ingredients to match the same as the eggs (the correct way to bake a cake).
Now, almost every individual living in the western world is dependent on the government and shaky supply chains to provide them with cake, which is almost always premade at this point … and tasteless as heck. (RELATED: New Video Of Humanoid Robots Running An Obstacle Course Is The Most Terrifying Thing You’ll See Today)
So instead of cake, think of every single thing that humans do that maybe we don’t want to. Sure, AI can start with fun stuff like playing around with music. But the more we rely on AI to do the easy and complicated stuff that keeps our society circulating, the faster we devolve emerging generations into lackluster stupidity, spoiled behaviors, and uselessness if faced with cataclysmic (or even small scale) disruptions to these systems.
It might start with something as simple as a song, but the negative risk of AI far outweighs any short-term positives. If you want to ensure that our species either barely survives the next generation, or, at the very best goes through another hundred years of rapid so-called evolution before dying off in a mass extinction event, then please keep using AI.