> I am not sure if I am a toy simulation of the past from the future, right now.
Think about this: what is the only generation that lives in times when massive recording, storage and communication is possible, but was not yet influenced by AI? Ours. When AI will want to simulate a "natural" human society, it has only us as templates to train its humanGAN on. Even our past comments on reddit and Twitter have been used many times to train dialogue systems - we're being uploaded with each post we make.
Think about this: what is the only generation that lives in times when massive recording, storage and communication is possible, but was not yet influenced by AI? Ours. When AI will want to simulate a "natural" human society, it has only us as templates to train its humanGAN on. Even our past comments on reddit and Twitter have been used many times to train dialogue systems - we're being uploaded with each post we make.