The future of AI is set to be "spiritually, politically, and economically" corrosive, Lanier said.
He noted that people building AI tech should let go of sci-fi wish fulfillment.
He noted that, while this year has been the "year of AI," next year the world is going to be "flooded, flooded with AI-generated music."
A deluge of generative AI content, from simple search prompts to eerie deepfakes, is now up for broad government regulation.
In addition to AI-generated content nixing human connection found through creative works and causing an eventual collapse of the creative economy, Lanier said AI-generated content that can be perfected and customized also undermines peoples' "sense of reality.
Persons:
Lanier, —, Arianna Huffington's, OpenAI's ChatGPT, Lucian Grainge, Grainge, Kali Hays
Organizations:
Service, Microsoft, Universal Music, Twitter
Locations:
khays@insider.com, @hayskali