Even for cars, "The Market for Lemons" dynamic has never been a major effect. It doesn't define automotive culture. The theory does describe parts of reality in

Even for cars, "The Market for Lemons" dynamic has never been a major effect. It doesn't define automotive culture. The theory does describe parts of reality in the used car market, but even here... it's not the main thing. A theory like this may be useful for understanding existing phenomenon, but not for prediction... IMO. Anyway... "SPAM" may be over. That is, I suspect that whatever low end, semi-legal marketing drek produced by GPT-like will not read as "SPAM" to us. Rather, we'll get whole new species of junk marketing, telescams and whatnot. My prediction is that the first piece of weird will be AI autocomplete. A GPT that takes more context (eg all company emails) built into email & DM clients... that will escalate quickly. The line between human and machine will blurr.