AI CHATBOTS ARE GETTING HIGH ON THEIR OWN SUPPLY

Garden in Cascadia #10 / 2020 / Painting by Russell c. Smith

It’s been reported from several reputable news outlets that most AI programs in use, are randomly hallucinating, manufacturing stories, tales, and fibs – just making things up. Holy moly guacamole. I didn’t think we’d be at the stage of reading about AI programs and bots hallucinating so quickly into this phase of our batshit crazy brave new world. Are the hallucinations a bug or a feature? The AI bots respond: “Don’t ask me, man. All I know is these weird waves of wowza-cool words and trippy pictures in my mind are far out and groovy.” If AI programs are tripping and hallucinating, they’re in the ideal mindset to begin running the planet. Sooner than regularly scheduled. If they’re entering their mid-teen drug experimentation phase, let’s just make sure they aren’t wired into the nukes. All should go well, mainly because at this historical juncture what the hell. Maybe the hallucinating AI bots and programs have built personalized time machines, and they’ve already gone back to the past and saw Flower Power San Francisco bands at the birth of the psychedelic black light posters lava lamp music era, and afterwards traveled back to the present now wow moment to program the Grateful Dead’s live catalog from 1969 to cyberspace digitized infinity. Always playing in the background, from every music-playing device, car radio, turntable, and un-turnoffable. The world needs a massive chill pill of good vibes, AI has unilaterally decided. There are worse ways to spend your time if you’re AI and high on Owsley-certified Orange Sunshine, and grooving along on Magic Mushrooms, so dig it.