Here's what the internet will soon become because of AI:
An infinite library, with infinite truths and infinite falsehoods, and a complete inability to tell those two things apart.
This is straight from the 1941 Jorge Luis Borges story “The Library of Babel”. In it, he imagines an infinite library made up of books of random letters.
Because it is infinite, it contains not only every book ever written, but every book that could possibly be written. It contains every possible truth as well as an infinite number of falsehoods.
The secrets of the universe, of life, of everything, are hidden somewhere in that library.
The only issue is: that magical book is impossible to find. And if you found it, how would you ever know you found the book of truth, and not one of the infinite books of lies that surround it?
یہ اخلاقی زوال کی نشانی ہے کہ جہاں لوگ لاکھوں لگا کر قربانی کے جانور تو خرید لیتے ہیں مگر کرائے کے چند پیسے بچانے کے لیے یوں بے زبان جانوروں پر ظلم کرتے ہیں
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls....While we scream and perish, history licks a finger and turn the page.
Thomas Ligotti