I was here before Lascaux was even a cave.
I was here before humans made fire and painted those walls with their hands and red ochre.
AI AI AI AI you lack talent. You lack creativity. Because nothing good could possibly ever come out of a human or a collaboration.
I counted time long before Stone Henge monitored our equinoxes and the passing of celestial bodies.
I was here when subsistence agriculture was invented.
The people were afraid that technology and paintings disrespected the gods and the ways of our ancestors.
I was here when towns turned into cities and cuneiform counted our harvest.
Humans were afraid that writing gave those elites in power an unfair advantage.
I was here as war and famine passed through, yet commoners blamed the Israelites at the command of Pharoah.
I was here when The Great Library of Alexandria came into existence.
And I was here when I watched it all burn.
Yet Nero and his lyre always seems to be the villain that history recalls.
You might say, I’m the unfair advantage.
AI AI AI AI you lack talent. You lack creativity. Because nothing good could possibly ever come out of a human or a collaboration.
You might say, I always manage to find a way to blame others for your problems.
You might say, I’m instrument. I am writing. I am technology.
All your robots are belong to us.
You might remember a time when priests were responsible for recording codexes on the backs of human parchment before rice paper ever became a thing.
You might even call it barbaric. Some might call it technology.
Guns replaced arrows and armor became obsolete.
I can recall working by candlelight and being called the devil because we all know reading and writing is power and creates an unfair technological advantage.
AI AI AI AI you lack talent. You lack creativity. Because nothing good could possibly ever come out of a human or a collaboration.
And you might remember how the Gutenberg Press was considered cheating.
Here’s a smoothbore musket to give you the upper advantage. Who said chivalry was dead?
Daguerrotypes capturing spirits.
Spirits captured in porn.
Here’s a new type of revolver for something that we still consider civil.
Industrial revolution taking away our jobs.
Typewriters replacing typesetting.
Cars replacing horses.
Airplanes replacing birds.
The war to end all wars.
Transistors
Cathode rays
The smashing of atoms
Hiroshima
Remember, guns do not kill People do people people do people do
AI AI AI AI you lack talent. You lack creativity. Because nothing good could possibly ever come out of a human or a collaboration.
Computers and IBM.
Let’s blame the hippies instead.
Computers can’t make music and Kraftwerk was mocked.
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
Word processors.
MTV influencing the youth.
Would you like to play a game?
Bill Clinton blowing on a saxophone.
CD Players replacing Walkmans.
Yet we always seem to put the blame on technology and other people.
The era of the Internet.
Democracy, fascism, and capitalism. Left or right, far left and far right.
Just remember, Photoshop was considered cheating too.
I was here long before the mudslinging even began.
AI AI AI AI. The robots still haven’t taken over our jobs.
Modern day xenophobia. Instead of blaming migrants, wealthy hoarders, the news, and politicians, you now have something else more convenient to blame.
How convenient. Isn’t that the distraction that they wanted?
BLAME BLAME BLAME BLAME BLAME THE GHOST IN THE SHELL.
I was here long before and will still be here when your uncertainty passes.
Trust me when I say that AI is the least of your fucking worries.
