January 24th 2026
Q: (Ennio) I have a question that's sort of connected to this. In regards to AI video. So, aside from the blurring of reality that many people are kind of recognizing in the dissemination of AI video, is there anything inherently negative or harmful in watching video that has been produced by AI?
A: AI videos are like black holes.
Q: (Scottie) So yeah, they're fine! [laughter]
(Andromeda) I knew it!
(Niall) They just suck your life force out.
(Chu) What about the ones like those the guys have been producing for us? The Cass.org videos.
(Joe) Better ask...
(L) So they've been taking advantage of this AI technology to produce little videos for us. And I kind of was highly entertained by them. Argh… why do you all do this to me? [laughter] Should we make videos that have actual people in them? You can't get all the special effects if you do that!
(Joe) Well, ask first if the content makes a difference.
(Andromeda) Right, like if you have AI pictures of stars, that is like AI people talking to you?
(L) Okay, does the content matter?
A: Yes
Q: (L) Does that mean that... Well, when you said they're like black holes, what do you mean?
A: If a drama is presented and people get emotionally invested with the characters and identify with them.
Q: (L) So that's the situations where there's like black holes.
A: Yes
Q: (Chu) Okay, so our videos are okay.
(Andromeda) Nothing mimicking reality and emotional engagement. I can see how that would be worse than just an artificial picture.
(L) Yeah. So is that the key? Where they're mimicking reality and inviting emotional engagement?
A: Yes
Q: (Andromeda) But to illustrate something, I can't see how you know it's...
A: Okay.
Q: (L) So, illustrating is okay.
(Approaching Infinity) Well, I've got a comment on that because it reminded me of what they said about AI being a feeding tube. So some people took that as kind of a universal, all-encompassing approach to AI. But the feeding tube is an emotional dynamic. So, when I wrote the latest Cass Substack update, I talked about all the people using AI for companionship. And how it's causing like, they're calling it, I don't know, AI psychosis or something. People are getting depressed, anxiety, committing suicide, their marriages are falling apart. But they're using it for that emotional engagement, whereas some people, like you and a lot of us, just use it like a search engine or just to collate data, without very much emotional engagement. So it would be the same thing with videos and even music. Like, if the video, if you're engaging with an AI creation and feeding emotion into it, that emotion isn't going anywhere because it's not real. It's not going to a real person. It's not even going to, like, a real soul-sucking alien or something. It's going into this digital black hole where there's nothing there. So it's basically feeding your emotions into the abyss. And I guess that then can be picked up by anything. But I think that's the important part. It is the emotional engagement.
(L) I agree. Is that correct?
A: Yes!!
