Question: Do you think MGS2's themes and ideas are actually still relevant?

[Dirty Duck]

I appreciate what you’re saying but I think many aspects of the corporate use of AI feels not entirely dissimilar to MGS2’s. AI models are being trained on decades of information that’s been archived and preserved through the efforts of people across the world. Open access information that is readily available to anyone with access to the internet. After this information has been assimilated it is then being scrubbed from the internet leaving their AI models as the only way to access it. By removing the content they do control the context, even if it’s not perceivable. What they are choosing to gatekeep and train the models to not mention is just as powerful a control of context as what MGS2 was discussing. Elon’s little “white genocide in South Africa” escapade with the Twitter AI is an example of the curtain being lifted on what is undoubtedly happening on some level with all of these AI models. Not always necessarily for such obvious propaganda purposes, but these are corporations that manage their public facing operations down to the minutest detail-of course they’re controlling the context of what we have access to.

I think MGS2 and its theme have stayed incredibly relevant. It looked into what was changing in the present and imagined a future that we’ve definitely not strayed too far from imo