As the saying goes, "one person's trash is another person's gold."
Increased personalization of content at effectively infinite scales is a future I think most people really aren't wrapping their heads around.
There will be both good and bad applications of it, but when it finally crosses the threshold, it's going to hit like a tsunami.
The Internet built the infrastructure for 1:1 content, but there's simply never been the capacity for building out the creative.
When you are watching a TV show that's being written and rendered live specifically for you, incorporating your social media data to develop relevant topics and story arcs, and pulse rate and eye tracking to gauge and adapt for interest/emotional connection -- traditional content simply isn't going to hold a candle.
To me, that show is almost certainly going to be trash. But to you, it will be gold.
The components for that future are arriving faster than I ever thought they would, and while it is still a ways off, it's increasingly an inevitable result.
Your comment reminds me of people pointing out the uncanny valley years ago in claiming that computers would never create realistic looking humans. Just last week was research that not only can't people tell AI generated people apart from real ones, but they find the AI generated ones more trustworthy.
There's a huge difference between the beginning of implementation of a technology advance and its half-life.
Not necessarily - federated media, webs of trust, and diligent curation across many smaller communities could allow for something that replaces Twitter, reddit, and centralized media hubs. Search within that context is easier - p2p/torrent streaming with crypto incentivized seeding can scale distribution.
The current state of adtech and near total surveillance isn't sustainable as more people wake up to the downsides, and as fake crap begins to accumulate.
Decentralization of social media, advertising, e-commerce and other web 2.0 staples will be a natural evolution of technology. The story goes "under Google's model of the walled garden web, SEO, spam, and bots achieved parity in all content metrics except actual meaningfulness to the user." Despite having all the compute and talent you could possibly bring together, Google is failing to uphold its core technology. They incentivized bad faith behavior, and are reaping the consequences of that. The acceleration of seo hacking and artificial worthless content is asymmetrical to the acceleration of the capabilities and market model Google has created.
A search engine can navigate self selected communities, human curated lists, and creatively bundle lists of lists to achieve high quality results based on actual humans self selecting and acting in their own interests. You can do things with higher quality classification and even provide regex over crawled data without huge technical barriers. Search agents will come about, whether locally or cloud hosted, and will eventually replace centralized engines like Google.
There are non doomed visions of the future. Maybe we won't suffer a digital trashocalypse.
This will be better personalized garbage.
As the saying goes, "one person's trash is another person's gold."
Increased personalization of content at effectively infinite scales is a future I think most people really aren't wrapping their heads around.
There will be both good and bad applications of it, but when it finally crosses the threshold, it's going to hit like a tsunami.
The Internet built the infrastructure for 1:1 content, but there's simply never been the capacity for building out the creative.
When you are watching a TV show that's being written and rendered live specifically for you, incorporating your social media data to develop relevant topics and story arcs, and pulse rate and eye tracking to gauge and adapt for interest/emotional connection -- traditional content simply isn't going to hold a candle.
To me, that show is almost certainly going to be trash. But to you, it will be gold.
The components for that future are arriving faster than I ever thought they would, and while it is still a ways off, it's increasingly an inevitable result.
Your comment reminds me of people pointing out the uncanny valley years ago in claiming that computers would never create realistic looking humans. Just last week was research that not only can't people tell AI generated people apart from real ones, but they find the AI generated ones more trustworthy.
There's a huge difference between the beginning of implementation of a technology advance and its half-life.