Who needs a comfort read on the end of #AI? 👀
"AI companies face a kafkaesque bind where they can't improve a tool for automating the creation of content without human beings creating more content than they've ever created before. ... Ironically, OpenAI's best hope for survival would be to fund as many news outlets as possible and directly incentivize them to do in-depth reporting, rather than proliferating a tech that unquestionably harms the media industry."
@MLClark If your business model is to make something fake, but it only works if you keep creating more real stuff to feed into it, maybe you should just make the real stuff in the first place.
These AIs aren't being created by these giants to create anything or make anything better. They are created to suck up as much as possible and create another layer they control where wealth can be extracted.
It's not a way to "generate" anything. It's a way to steal what others make.
They're also concretely value-stripping preceding algorithms. Google was originally excellent at providing answers to our prompts - by directing people to human-curated sites *with* the answers.
Then it gave top response priority to people who paid for ads. Now it (and other search engines) just give synthesized answers absent verification, or direct users to promo pages with content generated by LLMs.
We *started* with what this whole hype cycle is promising as an end result.