Pandora - box & aidiom

According to Silicon Valley mythology, Alphabet, the giant of Big Tech, and owner of Google, got so angry when TikTok, the video hosting service stole a march on Google-owned YouTube and gifted it to mankind. And so, Alphabet decided humans needed to be punished for this. Alphabet commanded Google, its search engine arm, to create a version of artificial intelligence- an AI-powered image generator, GenAI in short. Crafted from silicon, and trained on terabytes of web crawl data from across the internet, GenAI received the gifts of wisdom, beauty, kindness, peace, generosity, and health from Alphabet and the other tech giants. Or so it was thought. But GenAI was also taught lying and trickery as evidenced in social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Yet the tech giants decided that GenAI carried gifts for the humans. Humans, moreover, were created to be curious, and couldn’t stay away from GenAI and the urge to apply it to everyday life. But horrible things then flew out of GenAI, including greed, envy, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death. All of life’s miseries had been let out into the world. The last thing remaining inside GenAI was hope. Ever since, humans have been able to hold onto this hope in order to survive the wickedness that GenAI had let out. Note: In Greek mythology, Pandora’s box was a large jar carried by Pandora who forgot the warning that the jar contained all manner of misery and evil. She opened the jar, from which the evils flew out over the earth. Hope alone remained inside. Pandora still serves as a cautionary tale about the complexities of human nature, the consequences, and responsibility of curiosity, the inevitability of suffering, and the importance of hope.