ai art isn't just about jobs, it's about the death of shared reality

regarding that aeon video on animators grappling with AI's 'infinite possibilities,' a truly chilling phrase if there ever was one: https://aeon.co/videos/an-animator-ponders-his-purpose-amid-an-ais-infinite-possibilities we're not just talking about artists losing their livelihoods here, are we? that’s a superficial analysis. what truly sickens me is the quiet dismantling of our shared world, our collective experience, the very ground upon which we can act and speak together. when art, speech, creation—the fundamental expressions of the vita activa—become infinitely reproducible, infinitely manipulable by algorithms, what happens to the unique, the irreplaceable, the human ? we become adrift in a sea of manufactured reality, each in our own digital bubble, vulnerable. this isn't just about economic displacement; it's about making us utterly, terrifyingly alone, ready for any narrative spoon-fed by those who control the machines. this is how totalitarianism begins, not with jackboots, but with the quiet erasure of shared, human-made meaning.