I'm sick of the LinkedIn 'people are looking at your profile' emails. The company names aren't changing so either the same people are looking over and over or it's all fake.
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I need some paperclips, I wonder if an AI could help me with this task. IYKYK
How to walk faster in one easy step: go outside at 2am. You'll be afraid of everything practically running in no time.
Thought I'd be clever and do a 'type until I do a typo' challenge, thinking I'd be going for a while. I made it half a page.
Just realised that I did not, in fact, know my bluesky handle. Good news, I didn't send out letters with bad information. Bad news, I need to retype those letters.
You don't know stress until you've tried typing a letter on a typewriter.
All those companies have a business model of taking things made by people, putting it through an algorithm and presenting it to other people with ads.
Conversely, the AI companies are making the content themselves with compute and presenting it to people on demand, with some ad support, and the AI companies have created an unsustainable business.
The thing not acknowledged is that the social media platforms largely don’t pay their creators for making content. Almost every youtuber I watch plugs a Patreon or merch line during their videos to make up for the funding gap.
Whether through human labour or compute, creating content costs. And the AI companies are proving this by setting billions and billions of dollars on fire to provide content creation to people for far less money than it takes to run the content generators.
When the investment money runs out, and it’s going to soon, we’re going to see just what money it takes to make things, and the value of art is going to go up.
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Conversely, the AI companies are making the content themselves with compute and presenting it to people on demand, with some ad support, and the AI companies have created an unsustainable business.
The thing not acknowledged is that the social media platforms largely don’t pay their creators for making content. Almost every youtuber I watch plugs a Patreon or merch line during their videos to make up for the funding gap.
Whether through human labour or compute, creating content costs. And the AI companies are proving this by setting billions and billions of dollars on fire to provide content creation to people for far less money than it takes to run the content generators.
When the investment money runs out, and it’s going to soon, we’re going to see just what money it takes to make things, and the value of art is going to go up.
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I’ve been thinking lately that a lot of people are wrong about what AI will do to the value of art.
People say, understandably, that AI will devalue it because it can create masses of pictures and text very quickly, far outpacing human artists, for very little cost.
But when it comes to actual productive work, AI can’t replace anybody and it can’t even be used as a reliable helper or research tool. Hallucinations are too rampant for it to be trusted to replace a person, and people are finding when they use it as an assistant it just slows them down.
So if it can’t do any knowledge work, it can only do creative work, for a given value of creative. Its outputs are generic and wholly unoriginal. Even the famous ‘use glue to keep toppings on your pizza’ answer was copied from a joke post that a human wrote.
This means that AI isn’t competing with filmmakers, lawyers or consultants, it's competing with Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, which is an entirely different problem.
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People say, understandably, that AI will devalue it because it can create masses of pictures and text very quickly, far outpacing human artists, for very little cost.
But when it comes to actual productive work, AI can’t replace anybody and it can’t even be used as a reliable helper or research tool. Hallucinations are too rampant for it to be trusted to replace a person, and people are finding when they use it as an assistant it just slows them down.
So if it can’t do any knowledge work, it can only do creative work, for a given value of creative. Its outputs are generic and wholly unoriginal. Even the famous ‘use glue to keep toppings on your pizza’ answer was copied from a joke post that a human wrote.
This means that AI isn’t competing with filmmakers, lawyers or consultants, it's competing with Facebook, TikTok and YouTube, which is an entirely different problem.
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A year ago the Medium Weekly Digest was all "5 smarter ways to use AI". Now it's "AI is dead", "How to hide that you're using AI" and "The economy is going to collapse because of AI". How the world turns.