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People are happy to put their content on social networks. Maybe they get some value in return such as sales, exposure, signalling or simple enjoyment. Many pe

People are happy to put their content on social networks. Maybe they get some value in return such as sales, exposure, signalling or simple enjoyment. Many people who aren’t that privacy conscious would however object to lots of companies, big and small, sucking their content into their databases for their own uses, then republishing after it’s passed through a few AI models.

mnky9800n 3y ago
Yes. AI is becoming the content launderer. I mean what's the difference? You could ask an AI to make not star wars. And what's the difference between that and all the not star wars movies made in the 80s? It's that it was automated this time around? I think this points out that AIs clearly do not work like human brains. Human brains do not need all of the content of humanity to produce a replica of art station mediocre.
fauigerzigerk 3y ago
>People are happy to put their content on social networks. Do they have a choice? A handful of corporations have captured all the network effects. If you need to reach an audience to do your job or find your "friends", what other choice do you have but to give your data to them?
- badosu 3y ago
  I fail to understand this argument. If your friends are close enough do you need a big corporate network to share content/thoughts? If they aren't close why do you care? Alternatively, what would make more sense is to participate in communities gated by these networks but then it's your choice to be there.
  - fauigerzigerk 3y ago
    >If your friends are close enough do you need a big corporate network to share content/thoughts? If they aren't close why do you care? I don't personally have this problem, but my observation is that most social relationships are somewhere in between closest friends and don't care. My own concern is more about participating in professional, neighbourhood, civil society or political communities. Choosing not to be where they have decided to congregate means not being able to do my job and not making my voice heard where many decisions affecting me are taken.
realusername 3y ago
It's not like there's many alternatives, network effects are very powerful and even with Musk running the company into the ground, there's not many people really quitting which tells a lot on how hard that effect can be.

mnky9800n 3y ago

Yes. AI is becoming the content launderer. I mean what's the difference? You could ask an AI to make not star wars. And what's the difference between that and all the not star wars movies made in the 80s? It's that it was automated this time around? I think this points out that AIs clearly do not work like human brains. Human brains do not need all of the content of humanity to produce a replica of art station mediocre.

fauigerzigerk 3y ago

>People are happy to put their content on social networks. Do they have a choice? A handful of corporations have captured all the network effects. If you need to reach an audience to do your job or find your "friends", what other choice do you have but to give your data to them?

badosu 3y ago
I fail to understand this argument. If your friends are close enough do you need a big corporate network to share content/thoughts? If they aren't close why do you care? Alternatively, what would make more sense is to participate in communities gated by these networks but then it's your choice to be there.
- fauigerzigerk 3y ago
  >If your friends are close enough do you need a big corporate network to share content/thoughts? If they aren't close why do you care? I don't personally have this problem, but my observation is that most social relationships are somewhere in between closest friends and don't care. My own concern is more about participating in professional, neighbourhood, civil society or political communities. Choosing not to be where they have decided to congregate means not being able to do my job and not making my voice heard where many decisions affecting me are taken.

realusername 3y ago

It's not like there's many alternatives, network effects are very powerful and even with Musk running the company into the ground, there's not many people really quitting which tells a lot on how hard that effect can be.