Idols: From Gods to Code
Автор: simulated capacity
Загружено: 2025-11-13
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The podcast is an extended conversation exploring the fundamental human need for idols—defined broadly as figures, symbols, or ideas that provide psychological anchoring, meaning, and social cohesion. The discussion then pivots to how AI-generated hyperrealism threatens the traditional, image-based celebrity idol that flourished during the age of cinema and photography by collapsing visual trust. The text suggests that while the mass-market human celebrity may fade, the ancient impulse toward idolatry will survive by evolving into one of three forms: a reversion to symbolic archetypes, the rise of customisable, intimate synthetic idols, or the potential emergence of AI itself as a new kind of oracle or "digital deity" capable of fulfilling spiritual and emotional needs. The overall conclusion is that AI will not destroy the need for idols but will instead decentralise it, making it more personal and synthetic, thereby completing a historical circle where reverence shifts from biological figures back to transcendent symbols, albeit ones built from code.
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