AI now generates text, music, speech, images, games and movies—are we closer to the Matrix than we think?
MarcJSchmidt · x · 2026-10-25
Developer Marc J. Schmidt muses that artificial text, music, speech, images, personalities, games, and movies now exist one by one—arguing we're closer to a Matrix-like fully synthetic world than most people realize. A brief big-picture take, no data, but reflective of practitioners' sense of how fast generative AI is covering every human medium.
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