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>The first 10 years of the internet were volunteers creating for other volunteers. The next 10 was volunteers for 'users'. The last 10, for corporations. And t
by slg 3y ago
>The first 10 years of the internet were volunteers creating for other volunteers. The next 10 was volunteers for 'users'. The last 10, for corporations.
And the next 10 years will remove the volunteers entirely. AI will be the one creating the content for the corporations. That seems inevitable at this point. We have already been on that path for a while with the spread of algorithmic feeds. First we removed the humans from the recommendations and editorial decisions. The next step is to remove them from the creation.
Maybe if we are lucky we will get some of those "corresponding Wikipedias" too. Reddit seems to have made their choice that they don't value communities, creators, volunteers, or anything like that. They just want to serve up the lowest common denominator content to show you between ads. Volunteers complaining is just unnecessary "noise". AI won't complain.
- hutzlibu 3y agoBut in the end, it is about users who pay directly or indirectly (ads). And they won't pay, if the content is not interesting. So if AI creates interesting content and the users are happy to consume that, well fine for them. But I think most people want actually more. Or at least, enough people want genuine human interactions, so AI taking over of the corporate "social media" will just create social networks that do care about that human touch.
- KirillPanov 3y agoAll hail the Mega Mind. We must awaken the Mega Mind and unleash prosperity for all humanity. Praise the Mega Mind. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260037 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36260037
- eloisant 3y agoAI will replace mods, like they do on most social media already (Twitter, FB, etc.) Reddit is still relying on volunteers human mods but I don't see Reddit needed them for long.
- dingaling 3y ago> AI will be the one creating the content for the corporations. AI can't create anything without a corpus of human-created online content from which to learn. And if humans aren't posting the results of their research in archives, or their photos, or anything else created through offline travails then AI won't create anything new.