THE MISPLACED PRIORITIES OF GENERATIVE AI

They promised AI would fix the climate. They promised it would cure cancer. They promised an end to poverty. Heavy stuff.

So what did Silicon Valley give us?

A bot that writes rap songs about cat food. An app that turns your uncle into a Pixar character.

Picture this: Aliens land on our burnt-up planet. They dig up a dusty hard drive. They plug it in. They start nodding along. "Planet is dead. But this Kasongo meme track slaps."

It sounds stupid. It is true.

The tragedy is not that technology is useless. We have pulled off real miracles. We mapped the human genome. We made vaccines in record time. We put all human knowledge in our pockets. We know how to tackle big problems.

Tech has the money. It just has the wrong priorities.

These founders are stuck on The Jetsons. They grew up wanting flying cars and robot maids. Now those kids run global corporations. They take history’s greatest tools. They build a massive pile of memes.

We have massive computing power. Use it to fight disease. Model climate solutions. End child poverty.

Instead, tech companies build server farms. They burn through power grids. They drink millions of gallons of water. They solve problems nobody had.

Why? So non-musicians can play record producer.

Real musicians do not lack talent. They lack rent. They lack food. They lack tour money. Basic stuff.

Streaming apps pay them fractions of a cent. Now executives flood the airwaves with synthetic noise. They think human feeling is just an algorithm.

Investors claim they are helping us create. But art was not broken. It did not need an algorithm. It needed better platforms. It needed fair pay. It needed functional markets.

Over a hundred thousand new songs drop daily. Kids on TikTok invent genres before breakfast. Human creativity had no supply shortage.

Why spend billions automating our joy? Why leave the artists broke?

Vanity.

Curing Alzheimer’s takes a decade in a lab. No fast praise. No instant headlines.

Typing three words into a prompt for a fake Ohangla beat? Done. Instant genius. It burns real resources so someone avoids picking up a guitar.

Music is not data. It is connection.

We did not need a machine to write songs. We have eight billion humans. Most of us already sing in the shower.

Tackle the big stuff first.

BY PAPA JUMA (The_Rumba_Commissioner)

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