AI Take-Over in Literature and Culture: Truth, Post-Truth, and Simulation

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Pub Date : 2023-12-18 DOI:10.21659/rupkatha.v15n4.12

Sumanta Pramanik, Shri Krishan Rai

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Abstract

In a world that is increasingly lost to narrative building, deep fakes, simulation of realities and dissemination of fake news generated by artificial intelligence (AI), we are moving towards a post-truth era. Our thoughts are being manipulated and twisted with (mis)information for the benefit of people in power; thus, our consent is being manufactured with the aid of AI, resulting in ideological imperialism. In such a scenario, when AI is slowly taking control over the planet and creating our digital replicas by cloning our consciousness, what will our future look like? Humans’ creative pursuits have already predicted such futures in various movies, comics, novels and web series depicting the myriad complications associated with an impending AI takeover. Thus, contextualising today’s scenario within the scope of the future, the paper aims to dissect some popular speculative narratives offered through various tissues of culture, including movies, comics, novels and web series, to comprehend the consequences those narratives generate to grasp the changing relationalities between real and unreal, and truth and post-truth in a world run in codes and simulation.

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文学与文化中的人工智能接管：真相、后真相与模拟

在一个越来越迷失于人工智能（AI）产生的叙事构建、深度伪造、现实模拟和假新闻传播的世界里，我们正在走向一个后真相时代。为了当权者的利益，我们的思想正在被（错误）信息操纵和扭曲；因此，我们的同意正在人工智能的帮助下被制造出来，从而导致意识形态帝国主义。在这种情况下，当人工智能慢慢控制地球，并通过克隆我们的意识来创造我们的数字复制品时，我们的未来会是什么样子呢？人类的创造性追求已经在各种电影、漫画、小说和网络剧中预言了这样的未来，描绘了即将到来的人工智能接管所带来的无数复杂问题。因此，本文将今天的情景置于未来的范围内，旨在剖析通过各种文化组织（包括电影、漫画、小说和网络剧）提供的一些流行的推测性叙事，以理解这些叙事产生的后果，从而把握在一个以代码和模拟运行的世界中，真实与虚幻、真相与后真相之间不断变化的关系。

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