I am curious where you came up with your statistics that most people embrace technology to be creative. Screen time is generally passive, used for entertainment and relief from boredom - universal human vulnerabilities begging to be monetized. Is technology an art, a science, or simply a cash cow? I am sure it is all of these things and more, but profits make the whole thing feasible.
"Do we actually want to live in a world where generative-AI companies have greater control over the flow of information online? A transition from search engines to chatbots would be immensely disruptive. Google is imperfect, its product arguably degrading, but it has provided a foundational business model for creative work online by allowing optimized content to reach audiences. Perhaps the search paradigm needs to change and it’s only natural that the webpage becomes a relic. Still, the magnitude of the disruption and the blithe nature with which tech companies suggest everyone gets on board give the impression that none of the AI developers is concerned about finding a sustainable model for creative work to flourish. As Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier wrote recently in this publication, AI “threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.” Follow this logic and things get existential quickly: What incentive do people have to create work, if they can’t make a living doing it?"
I am curious where you came up with your statistics that most people embrace technology to be creative. Screen time is generally passive, used for entertainment and relief from boredom - universal human vulnerabilities begging to be monetized. Is technology an art, a science, or simply a cash cow? I am sure it is all of these things and more, but profits make the whole thing feasible.
"Do we actually want to live in a world where generative-AI companies have greater control over the flow of information online? A transition from search engines to chatbots would be immensely disruptive. Google is imperfect, its product arguably degrading, but it has provided a foundational business model for creative work online by allowing optimized content to reach audiences. Perhaps the search paradigm needs to change and it’s only natural that the webpage becomes a relic. Still, the magnitude of the disruption and the blithe nature with which tech companies suggest everyone gets on board give the impression that none of the AI developers is concerned about finding a sustainable model for creative work to flourish. As Judith Donath and Bruce Schneier wrote recently in this publication, AI “threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences.” Follow this logic and things get existential quickly: What incentive do people have to create work, if they can’t make a living doing it?"
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/06/ai-eats-the-world/678627/?utm_campaign=galaxy-brain&utm_content=20240607&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Galaxy+Brain