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I thought this piece was absolutely stellar because it's neither "AI is bad and we should stop all development" nor "You're only allowed to love AI because it's
by FinnLobsien 1y ago
I thought this piece was absolutely stellar because it's neither "AI is bad and we should stop all development" nor "You're only allowed to love AI because it's the next big thing."
I genuinely wonder what happens when media consumption is disassembled from its previous forms. Part of that has already happened where podcasts, shows and movies are now being created for the TikTok clips.
The few times I've watched TikTok, I realized recommendation algorithms with human-generated content are already impossible to ignore and best excised. They absorb attention because that's what they're designed to do.
I don't want to know what happens when the algorithms just experiment on our attention by themselves because they're hooked up to the actual generation of the content they'll push. When they form hypotheses on what we'll pay attention to, autonomously generate the content and push it out, where does that take us?
My hope is that these things will become like smoking: Available for adults, generally accepted to be a bad thing and stigmatized to do around other people.