The video you just watched took me five minutes and a single line to generate, sound affects and all. Two years ago, we were all clowning on how atrocious AI video looked. Now, here we are! In the blink of an eye, we went from obviously fake and goofy to something mildly concerning.

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When I first saw how real the videos were from Google’s VEO 3, it genuinely moved something in me. For a moment, I thought, yeah, we’re actually cooked. I was so impressed but also so unsettled.

It reminded me of some memes I’ve seen recently. The ones of people joking about how they’ll end up in court defending themselves against a crime that an AI deepfaked them into committing. Sounds stupid, but it’s not far off. The scary part isn’t that our government is planning to do things like that. They’ve already moved past that point. Most people don't see it because they still believe there are lines the government wouldn't dare cross. Oh, yes they would. And they have.

And if you think that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, look at what’s happening in plain sight. Are we all going to pretend it’s normal that after all this time, they suddenly want to release the CCTV footage of Epstein killing himself? Do you not remember how they explicitly said the cameras in the prison cell malfunctioned? But now, they somehow magically found some footage conveniently after Google’s AI video model gets released? Get a grip. If you’re buying that, you might actually be a dumbass.

Let’s zoom out for a sec. Everyone keeps saying AI is going to lead us into some utopia. Infinite efficiency, ethically made products, cheap labor, world peace, whatever. But people aren’t paying attention to what’s actually being built. It’s not utopia. It’s a propaganda machine. The most powerful one humanity has ever seen.

How do I know? Because right now, the number one use case I’ve seen so far for AI-generated video is fake influencers peddling garbage to emotionally manipulated audiences. They generate something to hijack someone with just the right tone of voice, posture, aesthetic, and boom… They’re buying a supplement that does nothing or signing up for a course made by a ghost.

But here’s the central contradiction they hope you won’t notice: our entire society has been built on exploiting human labor. You get people to work for money (which, by the way, isn’t even real and it can be printed at any time), and they produce goods so that someone else can sell those goods. But when robots and AI can do all of that… what then? What’s the point of a consumer if there’s no job for them to earn the money they need to consume?

This is why I keep circling back to the same conclusion: there’s no way in hell they’re going to actually let this tech be useful. Not in the way they promise. There’s a reason the Department of Defense always gets a first peek at any AI model before we do. They’re not verifying that the models work or are safe. They’re making sure they’re not too good, because that’s not part of the plan.

The plan is to control the narrative and maintain an advantage, not to empower everyone. They lure us in with cute image generators that make pictures of dogs and cats at a tea party or an elephant skydiving. Everyone's like, "ha ha, this is so fun!" not knowing that these are literally the beginnings of hyper-personalized propaganda that will be fed into every single device in real-time, shaping public thought to fit whatever narrative they choose.

We already have versions of this now. Think about algorithm-based content today. It’s manipulative, sure, but still relies on human creators. But when AI avatars can look, talk, and act however you want, there’s no more bottleneck. You don’t need people anymore. You can pump out endless sludge that’s perfectly optimized 24/7.

In theory, this should make life better, right? But let’s be honest. Do you really think the medical industry wants a model that can cure diseases overnight? Of course not. That would annihilate their business model. So they’ll move the goalposts. They’ll say “wElL, tHiS DiSeAsE iS tOo CoMpLeX eVeN fOr AI”. Meanwhile, we’re out here resurrecting woolly mammoths and eating 3D-printed lab-grown steak.

They keep promising these massive leaps forward in drug discovery and health care. But all we’ve really gotten so far is a weight-loss shot that drains your body and your soul from the inside out.

Anyway, keeping this frame of mind, one has to ask: how do you stay ahead?

A lot of people seem to be just waiting. Waiting for AI to get good enough so they can quit their job, get fired, and finally “do what they love.” But that assumes a happy ending. And if you believe that, you haven’t been paying attention. The goal here isn’t liberation, it’s sedation. Keep the people scrolling, keep them consuming, and keep them docile. The Romans called it “bread and circuses”. Distract the masses with food and spectacle, and they won’t notice the empire rotting from the inside. Today we call it DoorDash and TikTok.

To survive this, I think it's important for people to learn and use AI tools beyond just generating cute cat images. I think it's also important to be mindful and understand that these things are quite literally dead. In any Instagram or TikTok post that mentions ChatGPT, you will go to the comments and there are people unironically telling everyone that ChatGPT is their best friend. Excuse me? ChatGPT is not your friend. Can it be helpful and give you perspective on things that maybe you haven't thought about? Sure. But if you're just chatting with your AI bot as if it were human, telling it your problems, asking how to deal with real-life situations, then you’re done for.

What’s crazy to me is that people wear this with pride. They are actually proud of the fact that they are incapable of making real human connections. The thing is that no one has ever had a completely unique experience. We all go through variations of the same handful of emotional arcs. That’s the human condition. You’re not the only one who “does that thing” or “felt that way as a kid.” Everyone has. And that’s the whole point. We need each other for reflection and reality checks… Not an AI.

We must use these things as tools and tools alone. Not for validation and echo chambers. You also have to keep in mind what the agenda here is. Utopia is not it. It is not in the elite's best interest to have everyone be happy, healthy, and able to build things. So the lie that they're telling you, that AI will give you this, is just that. A lie.

If anything, within the next 3 to 5 years, the only real safety net will be being human. Having a network of actual people you trust. Having a body that functions and doesn’t depend on Ozempic. Having skills that AI can’t replace. Because when everyone can make the same AI-generated ad, the same face, the same fake voice… the only thing that will stand out is authenticity.

That’s what people crave. Even now, the entire internet is basically built to chase whatever content feels most authentic. Why? Because that hunger is still real. And it’s only going to grow stronger as everything else turns to perfect, soulless sludge.

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The video you just watched took me five minutes and a single line to generate, sound affects and all. Two years ago, we were all clowning on how atrocious AI video looked. Now, here we are! In the blink of an eye, we went from obviously fake and goofy to something mildly concerning.

Thanks for reading JovianSol's Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

When I first saw how real the videos were from Google’s VEO 3, it genuinely moved something in me. For a moment, I thought, yeah, we’re actually cooked. I was so impressed but also so unsettled.

It reminded me of some memes I’ve seen recently. The ones of people joking about how they’ll end up in court defending themselves against a crime that an AI deepfaked them into committing. Sounds stupid, but it’s not far off. The scary part isn’t that our government is planning to do things like that. They’ve already moved past that point. Most people don't see it because they still believe there are lines the government wouldn't dare cross. Oh, yes they would. And they have.

And if you think that sounds like a paranoid fantasy, look at what’s happening in plain sight. Are we all going to pretend it’s normal that after all this time, they suddenly want to release the CCTV footage of Epstein killing himself? Do you not remember how they explicitly said the cameras in the prison cell malfunctioned? But now, they somehow magically found some footage conveniently after Google’s AI video model gets released? Get a grip. If you’re buying that, you might actually be a dumbass.

Let’s zoom out for a sec. Everyone keeps saying AI is going to lead us into some utopia. Infinite efficiency, ethically made products, cheap labor, world peace, whatever. But people aren’t paying attention to what’s actually being built. It’s not utopia. It’s a propaganda machine. The most powerful one humanity has ever seen.

How do I know? Because right now, the number one use case I’ve seen so far for AI-generated video is fake influencers peddling garbage to emotionally manipulated audiences. They generate something to hijack someone with just the right tone of voice, posture, aesthetic, and boom… They’re buying a supplement that does nothing or signing up for a course made by a ghost.

But here’s the central contradiction they hope you won’t notice: our entire society has been built on exploiting human labor. You get people to work for money (which, by the way, isn’t even real and it can be printed at any time), and they produce goods so that someone else can sell those goods. But when robots and AI can do all of that… what then? What’s the point of a consumer if there’s no job for them to earn the money they need to consume?

This is why I keep circling back to the same conclusion: there’s no way in hell they’re going to actually let this tech be useful. Not in the way they promise. There’s a reason the Department of Defense always gets a first peek at any AI model before we do. They’re not verifying that the models work or are safe. They’re making sure they’re not too good, because that’s not part of the plan.

The plan is to control the narrative and maintain an advantage, not to empower everyone. They lure us in with cute image generators that make pictures of dogs and cats at a tea party or an elephant skydiving. Everyone's like, "ha ha, this is so fun!" not knowing that these are literally the beginnings of hyper-personalized propaganda that will be fed into every single device in real-time, shaping public thought to fit whatever narrative they choose.

We already have versions of this now. Think about algorithm-based content today. It’s manipulative, sure, but still relies on human creators. But when AI avatars can look, talk, and act however you want, there’s no more bottleneck. You don’t need people anymore. You can pump out endless sludge that’s perfectly optimized 24/7.

In theory, this should make life better, right? But let’s be honest. Do you really think the medical industry wants a model that can cure diseases overnight? Of course not. That would annihilate their business model. So they’ll move the goalposts. They’ll say “wElL, tHiS DiSeAsE iS tOo CoMpLeX eVeN fOr AI”. Meanwhile, we’re out here resurrecting woolly mammoths and eating 3D-printed lab-grown steak.

They keep promising these massive leaps forward in drug discovery and health care. But all we’ve really gotten so far is a weight-loss shot that drains your body and your soul from the inside out.

Anyway, keeping this frame of mind, one has to ask: how do you stay ahead?

A lot of people seem to be just waiting. Waiting for AI to get good enough so they can quit their job, get fired, and finally “do what they love.” But that assumes a happy ending. And if you believe that, you haven’t been paying attention. The goal here isn’t liberation, it’s sedation. Keep the people scrolling, keep them consuming, and keep them docile. The Romans called it “bread and circuses”. Distract the masses with food and spectacle, and they won’t notice the empire rotting from the inside. Today we call it DoorDash and TikTok.

To survive this, I think it's important for people to learn and use AI tools beyond just generating cute cat images. I think it's also important to be mindful and understand that these things are quite literally dead. In any Instagram or TikTok post that mentions ChatGPT, you will go to the comments and there are people unironically telling everyone that ChatGPT is their best friend. Excuse me? ChatGPT is not your friend. Can it be helpful and give you perspective on things that maybe you haven't thought about? Sure. But if you're just chatting with your AI bot as if it were human, telling it your problems, asking how to deal with real-life situations, then you’re done for.

What’s crazy to me is that people wear this with pride. They are actually proud of the fact that they are incapable of making real human connections. The thing is that no one has ever had a completely unique experience. We all go through variations of the same handful of emotional arcs. That’s the human condition. You’re not the only one who “does that thing” or “felt that way as a kid.” Everyone has. And that’s the whole point. We need each other for reflection and reality checks… Not an AI.

We must use these things as tools and tools alone. Not for validation and echo chambers. You also have to keep in mind what the agenda here is. Utopia is not it. It is not in the elite's best interest to have everyone be happy, healthy, and able to build things. So the lie that they're telling you, that AI will give you this, is just that. A lie.

If anything, within the next 3 to 5 years, the only real safety net will be being human. Having a network of actual people you trust. Having a body that functions and doesn’t depend on Ozempic. Having skills that AI can’t replace. Because when everyone can make the same AI-generated ad, the same face, the same fake voice… the only thing that will stand out is authenticity.

That’s what people crave. Even now, the entire internet is basically built to chase whatever content feels most authentic. Why? Because that hunger is still real. And it’s only going to grow stronger as everything else turns to perfect, soulless sludge.

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