Has there ever been a sustained backlash and doubt about a new big technology like what we are seeing with AI? Where the most vocal critics are tech people?
It's similar to bitcoin, to NFTs...
It's also similar to the internet-connected device trend, though I don't remember the resistance and doubt to that being as intense. I was mostly very excited about "the internet of things" I still put wifi in places where it doesn't belong with the most flimsy of excuses.
But it's not really a "new media form" it's a new production method.
@futurebird Yes! But some of the results are qualitative changes to accustomed forms of media. Recipe websites, for example, have become even more annoying than before AI. Everything is becoming more verbose, because it’s so easy to extract text (any text) from the slop machine.
Still, I’m with you that the main change is in how media are produced. I just think there’s a component of new media panics in some of the analysis, and we need to bear that in mind.
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