For the past few months, I have been observing all forms of media. I call it a prediction, but I pride myself on it being closer to an absolute certainty. Let’s start with the summary table.
Observation and Despair, or the Inevitable Future
To be honest, I myself am struggling with what to do next. I continue to observe the industry, and from my current perspective, this is how the structure of the world looks. I have created a matrix to show the whole picture.
First, regarding “AI Corporations.” This refers to all companies claiming to be AI-related—the entire industry. The decisive turning point here is the recent, quiet implementation of AI for military use. The social structure is already transforming into one where this is considered “business as usual.” Why? Because the B2C dream they painted will fail. This is a certainty.
When the illusion shatters, their only path to survival is to stop peddling “magic” and reveal their true nature. The fact is, AI is merely a massive calculator that happens to look human in its responses; its core is nothing but servers and algorithms. There is only one way for that massive system to survive: “contributing to social infrastructure.” And unfortunately, it is inevitable that military application will be integrated at the forefront of that contribution.
I once released an anti-war song with the message: “Sell dreams, do not use it for the military.” However, since the world has moved in the exact opposite direction of my plea to “sell dreams, and sell them the right way,” raising a voice against military use no longer holds any meaning.
As a result, that video has become nothing more than sophistry. I hadn’t coldly sorted things out to that extent. I’m sorry.
The rest is exactly as noted in the table. The path for AI to be recognized as a “purely new technology” or a “new technique for creators” is being completely sealed off. The AI companies that once sold dreams will transform into “internet police,” choosing to purge the very AI they scattered while aligning themselves with public opinion that has abandoned critical thought.
Video generation, LLMs—the technology itself will remain. But the social test is already over. The conclusion reached collectively by the public and the platforms is this: “AI = AI Slop.” From here on out, we will simply hurtle down that predetermined path.
The future I saw was not like this. No matter how logically I argue that AI depends entirely on the user and is merely a “mirror,” it is ultimately dismissed as just one individual’s opinion. The worlds of art and technology are fundamentally the same. Reality is determined not by “how excellent something is,” but by “how much mass approval it can garner.”
This is my final verdict, derived from thoroughly observing the landscape over the past two months.
For the younger generation, who will have to spend the majority of their lives coexisting with this “AI” in some form or another, this might be a suffocatingly harsh reality. And now, with the path of enlightenment—of “spreading the correct way to use technology”—completely closed off, there is nothing I can do.
I’m sorry.
On YouTube and similar platforms, I will no longer release videos about how to use AI. If the world refuses to look at it correctly and prefers to just shove it all into the “AI = Slop” box, then there is no point in doing so.
Let me tell you, YouTube is currently flooded with videos that are clearly AI but claim not to be. If you don’t want to see that kind of thing, you’d be better off filtering your searches for videos older than three years.
I will continue to publish articles honestly, and I will release some kind of videos, but I haven’t decided on the content yet. At the very least, I have come to believe that I must not put out anything that shows “what AI video can achieve” or “what you can do if you use it correctly,” so I will refrain from that.
