[fintechjock]

I was thinking about this last night. The new AI tools are like performance enhancing drugs in sports. Especially in bodybuilding, there was a really painful transition from the world of non-PEDs to PEDs. They solved that by going to natural and non-natural competitions.

Other sports didn’t handle it so well (baseball, cycling, etc)

Just as people were asking “did Lance / Sammy / Barry / Arnold really do that incredible feat without juicing?” I think that we will now be asking “did Janice really write that blog post or was it GPT-4?”

Scary world

[rychco]

PEDs do not make you a world class athlete, but you likely cannot be a world class athlete without some sort of PEDs. Much like PED use, top performers will take advantage of the new tools to widen the skill gap with their peers even further.

[strus]

EVERY professional athlete is juicing. Most of them just don't get caught.

[DoesntMatter22]

Is Steph Curry juicing? If so how so? EPO? It's not going to make you shoot better.

All pro golfers?

[strus]

> It's not going to make you shoot better.

Nor do the muscles (from the point where you are strong enough so the ball can reach the basket), and yet you will not see a basketball players that is not muscular.

PEDs allow you to gain muscles faster and have greater stamina, all of which is beneficial.

> All pro golfers?

Of course I was talking mainly about sports where physical performance matters. Although PEDs exists even in e-sport (Adderall).