We want to shoot a film. Actually, a short film, as they say. The idea came to me about two years ago, but it’s been sitting in a Word file on my hard drive. It’s nothing special, but it illustrates today’s reality in a metaphorical way. I won’t tell you any more, so as not to spoil the surprise. At the time, I thought it would be nice to shoot it, but it wouldn’t be worth the effort of finding a location, actors, extras, props, expenses, etc. But my wife suddenly remembered this script again. She called some friends, they started giving advice, and in the end, it turned out that artificial intelligence could do almost all the work. While I was grumbling and wondering, my wife pasted the short, rough script into Chat GPT, and a second later we had a plan, a shot list, and a storyboard. Almost exactly as I had imagined it. I was amazed at how easy it was and how accurately AI understood the idea in depth, which was only briefly outlined. It was as if it had peered into my mind. But that’s not all. The film itself, or most of it, can also be made by AI, without the need for a camera or actors. Or almost.

It’s a matter of subscription plan and monthly fee. Which led me to wonder, if I say in the chat, “Make me a short film, up to 10 minutes long, with an alternative and creative vision, a tense plot, and an unexpected ending, and I’ll give you complete creative freedom.” would he create something acceptable within seconds? I haven’t checked because I don’t have the most extensive subscription plan, but even if it’s a little early for that today, in a few months or a year, such a request will probably be completely feasible. Then… won’t art become redundant? And if it becomes redundant, then we humans will also become redundant, left without impulse, improvisation, inspiration, meaning…

Where is salvation then? It occurred to me that it is probably in another plane or space, beyond the whirlwinds and games of the mind and information, which AI will master much better than we ourselves and therefore will be able to make us dependent and control us. This includes even those who think they control it. If we have artificial intelligence that is better than our human intelligence, then we should not compete in this category, in which we will be losers. This probably means transcending intelligence and finding ourselves in the realms of what we today call supernatural or paranormal. Spirit, Soul, Self, Universal Self, Absolute, telepathy, extrasensory perception, clairvoyance, non-locality, levels of existence, and who knows what else. AI cannot penetrate there, it cannot compete with us. Furthermore, anyone who has developed any of these abilities within themselves becomes resistant to manipulative techniques of the mind, NLP, mind control, and other nonsense based on the way the human mind or intellect works, which is also their target. However, they are powerless against the higher levels of consciousness that merge with infinity and the Absolute. Anyone who thinks I’m writing nonsense should remember that they are reading the diary of a paranoid person and have only themselves to blame.

Or instead, try to imagine what the world would look like if everyone had, say, telepathic abilities? Adding this new quality to human systems would probably lead to social singularity, a kind of emergentism that is unpredictable from our current level of understanding, just as the internet would have been unpredictable and inexplicable to people at the beginning of the 20th century.

Humans have always tried to fit the world into the confines of their limited intellect, and on this basis they have built their ideologies and social systems. This is even more true today, in the age of social engineering and psychological programming, with or without the help of artificial intelligence. But whether organic or artificial, intelligence remains limited and incapable of understanding existence, the nature of life, and consciousness. The latter cannot be reduced to biological algorithms, as vulgar materialists try to convince us.

At the beginning of this text, I said that I would not reveal any more about the film. But I will mention just a little more, hoping that this will be a teaser rather than a spoiler.

An abandoned factory. Scant light filters through dirty, broken windows and openings. Drops of water fall into the puddles that have formed. Distant industrial noises can be heard echoing through the bowels of the huge, gloomy factory. Suddenly, silhouettes rush by. Silhouettes of feral people, locked up in this factory for who knows how long. There is no way out for these people. They have forgotten about the world outside the factory. They are just trying to survive.

*The images in this post were created using artificial intelligence.