>>24548093 (OP)A.I. is an interesting new chapter in the whole Baudrillard hyperreality thing. Pictures of women that don't exist can be MORE waiflike, MORE erotically charged, MORE vulnerable, MORE appealing than any picture of any woman that ever did exist.
How long until neuroscientists work out to access the cerebral cortex directly and not even bother with the intervening material?
That's pretty much what drugs do. A large proportion of what we ingest nowadays is basically visual heroin, and it’s only going to get worse.
Repeat after me:—
UNCLE TED DID NOTHING WRONG