So that if there's a big event like a Taylor Swift concert you couldn't go to and they detected you're most likely a fan, they'll gen AI a photo of you at the concert
If you missed a Christmas gathering with your family, they'll gen AI one for you
If like Japan but haven't been there yet, they gen AI a whole vacation album of you there
They're literally trying to embed fabricated events into your life and brain lmao
People are largely very excited for this idea. All the apps between different companies constantly copy each other to achieve feature parity, there's no escape. You will live a life of luxury and excitement whether you want to or not
And people applaud this. At the same time you’ll be seeing more articles asking why suicide rates have skyrocketed and that young people feel more alienated than ever.
Unrealistic standards of beauty and success that you can project from your phone. My fear is that it'll be normalized.
I have family with dementia and memory issues and I can't imagine not being able to have any real pictures to explore memories
It's likely to become a sort of (deliberate) arms race where social norms will expect enhanced images and anyone who doesn't use them (or doesn't use sufficiently expensive bazinga editing) will be socially marginalized.
Internet, phones, computers; all of it. All of it is eventually folded up into a form of social coercion for you to be more of a productive human being. Sure, they serve that purpose; but the direction of that productivity will always remain the same under what we have now.
You can't even enjoy the beach with your family. You have to sell it on the internet for likes.
Or better yet, get caught on the background of someone else's bazinga device and have your face plastered somewhere.