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Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore? Take for instance what has happened with news because of th

by mu53 2y ago

Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore? Take for instance what has happened with news because of the internet. Not exactly the same, but similar forces at work. It turned into a race to the bottom with everyone trying to generate content as cheaply as possible to get maximum engagement with tech companies siphoning revenue. Expensive, investigative pieces from educated journalists disappeared in favor of stuff that looks like spam. Pre-Internet news was higher quality Imagine that same effect happening for all content? Art, writing, academic pieces. Its a real risk that openai has peaked in quality

CuriouslyC 2y ago
Lots of people create without getting paid to do it. A lot of music and art is unprofitable. In fact, you could argue that when the mainstream media companies got completely captured by suits with no interest in the things their companies invested in, that was when creativity died and we got consigned to genre-box superhero pop hell.
eastbound 2y ago
I don’t know. When I look at news from before, there never was investigative journalism. It was all opinion swaying editos, until alternate voices voiced their counternarratives. It’s just not in newspapers because they are too politically biased to produce the two sides of stories that we’ve always asked them to do. It’s on other media. But investigative journalism has not disappeared. If anything, it has grown.
- mu53 2y ago
  its changed. Investigative journalism is done by non-profits specializing in it, who have various financial motives. The budgets at newspapers used to be much larger and fund more investigative journalism with a clearer motive.
BeFlatXIII 2y ago
> Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore? There are already multiple lifetimes of quality content out there. It's difficult to get worked up about the potential future losses.

by mu53 2y ago

CuriouslyC 2y ago

Lots of people create without getting paid to do it. A lot of music and art is unprofitable. In fact, you could argue that when the mainstream media companies got completely captured by suits with no interest in the things their companies invested in, that was when creativity died and we got consigned to genre-box superhero pop hell.

eastbound 2y ago

I don’t know. When I look at news from before, there never was investigative journalism. It was all opinion swaying editos, until alternate voices voiced their counternarratives. It’s just not in newspapers because they are too politically biased to produce the two sides of stories that we’ve always asked them to do. It’s on other media. But investigative journalism has not disappeared. If anything, it has grown.

mu53 2y ago
its changed. Investigative journalism is done by non-profits specializing in it, who have various financial motives. The budgets at newspapers used to be much larger and fund more investigative journalism with a clearer motive.

BeFlatXIII 2y ago

> Isn't it a greater risk that creators lose their income and nobody is creating the content anymore? There are already multiple lifetimes of quality content out there. It's difficult to get worked up about the potential future losses.