Alan Watts died in 1973 and yet this clip has him saying “scroll social media”. Only possible “social media” at the time of his death was email or a chatroom and those were in their infancy and the internet hadn’t been invented yet either. Methinks you may have been fooled.
I’m 99% sure the narration is AI-generated using Watts’s voice, and I don’t think it was quoting Watts directly. The on screen text needed quotation marks to show what, if any, words were taken directly from Watts. Misleading, yes, but I don’t think intentionally so.
I got the impression the first half is Watts proper and the second half is ai to put a modern spin on it. I didn’t hate it tbh. Provoked emotion from me as it really hits the nail.
Makes me think of this Alan Watts snippet.
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Looks like this AI generated and not the original Alan Watts. My apologies, I was bamboozled.
Alan Watts died in 1973 and yet this clip has him saying “scroll social media”. Only possible “social media” at the time of his death was email or a chatroom and those were in their infancy and the internet hadn’t been invented yet either. Methinks you may have been fooled.
EDIT: rephrasing
Inside the clip “HE” refers to himself in the 3rd person “Alan watts said once…” - it’s definitely Ai stealing his voice
I’m 99% sure the narration is AI-generated using Watts’s voice, and I don’t think it was quoting Watts directly. The on screen text needed quotation marks to show what, if any, words were taken directly from Watts. Misleading, yes, but I don’t think intentionally so.
I got the impression the first half is Watts proper and the second half is ai to put a modern spin on it. I didn’t hate it tbh. Provoked emotion from me as it really hits the nail.