Grumptious and Corruptious
AI, I said. Create music from text, as you claim you can.
My text: The Taming of the New, an article I recently published.
AI's answer: "Leave this program immediately. It is malformed".
Could it be that the species itself is malformed?
Certainly the AI creatures that I have shared with you, if not malformed, are other-than. They defy logic, formal restrictions, human restraints. How can creatures have multiple organs and eyes, trees growing out of their heads, ungainly shapes and unimagined postures? They can't be real, and yet here they are.
Are they artificial, or UFO's on legs and hooves and claws?
Darwin convinced us that new species arise through competition, with survival guaranteed to the strongest. Some of these creatures look pretty survivable to me.
What about symbiogenesis, the theory that the formation of new species occurs by combinations of existing, even disparate, ones? In other words, cooperation of existing species rather than competition. "Life" we are told, "did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking". (1)
With AI we have become familiar with query and response, with most attention focused on the response. But we know , or should know, that the response is too late. The lawsuits centered on AI objects are fundamentally flawed. Power lies in the query.
What if our queries are malformed as well? What if, instead of asking "do this ", based on taught human responses, we ask "do NOT-this"?
Not us, rather than more us?
Can we really conceive of not us, no more us, or, eradicating history so that never us is all that remains?
It doesn't take AI to do that. We already use genocide, fratricide, femicide, violence against any side that disagrees with our side.
If we search for the square root of tomorrow, based on the crumbs of truth permitted today, we may end up with grumptious and corruptious duking it out in the graveyard of a vanished species.
Perhaps that is the cide we deserve.
I don't know, Jimmy, but I do care. (2)
c. Corinne Whitaker 2025 and always
(1) Margulis and Sagan.
(2)Jimmy Buffett
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