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With the proliferation of AI content creation tools as the catalyst, we're going to go from a natural decentralization cycle to a natural centralization cycle w

With the proliferation of AI content creation tools as the catalyst, we're going to go from a natural decentralization cycle to a natural centralization cycle which will be bringing trust back to sources like WSJ and NBC nightly news. Obviously you still have to keep your guard up but that was never and will never be not true. Further, many of the social media sources today will work to show "real" sources versus AI generated content, etc. and that will result in some of those sources themselves just becoming centralized authorities on what is generated and what is not, though that job is more difficult.

pgsandstrom 3y ago
I guess you mean to say that we will go back to centralization since nothing decentralized can be trusted, with how easy it will become to fake facts. But that's assuming that the consumer primarily cares about truth. If that was the case, we would not be here to begin with.
- ericmay 3y ago
  I think you're right to point out whether or not citizens [1] care about the truth is important, and some do/don't but I don't think that has a large effect on the centralization and decentralization cycle here because part of the cycle is simply the proliferation of new media sources of which many will inevitably die and also because I do think people will want more authoritative sources of information instead of everything being "democratized". [1] I'm explicitly using citizens here instead of "consumer" because I detest that characterization of people and refuse to use the term. We need to have higher standards.
graphe 3y ago
Why would people trust them now? Now nobody is to be trusted. By the time the 'news' get it it's old and already on Twitter. Nobody besides boomers watch the news and 23 year olds aren't going to log off TikTok to watch boring shit they already knew 8hr ago with more detail than the 30 seconds they will hear about it from some loser talking head in a suit.

pgsandstrom 3y ago

I guess you mean to say that we will go back to centralization since nothing decentralized can be trusted, with how easy it will become to fake facts. But that's assuming that the consumer primarily cares about truth. If that was the case, we would not be here to begin with.

ericmay 3y ago
I think you're right to point out whether or not citizens [1] care about the truth is important, and some do/don't but I don't think that has a large effect on the centralization and decentralization cycle here because part of the cycle is simply the proliferation of new media sources of which many will inevitably die and also because I do think people will want more authoritative sources of information instead of everything being "democratized". [1] I'm explicitly using citizens here instead of "consumer" because I detest that characterization of people and refuse to use the term. We need to have higher standards.

graphe 3y ago

Why would people trust them now? Now nobody is to be trusted. By the time the 'news' get it it's old and already on Twitter. Nobody besides boomers watch the news and 23 year olds aren't going to log off TikTok to watch boring shit they already knew 8hr ago with more detail than the 30 seconds they will hear about it from some loser talking head in a suit.