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by Terr_ 627 days ago
IMO the problem facing us is not that computers will directly outperform people on the quality of what they produce, but that they will be used to generate an enormous quantity of inferior crap that is just good enough that filtering it out is impossible.

Not replacement, but ecosystem collapse.

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We have already trashed the internet and really human communication with SEO blogspam brought even lower by influencers desperately scrambling for their two minutes of attention. I could actually see quality on average rising, since it will now be easy to churn out higher quality content, even more easily than the word salad I have been wading through for at least the last 15 years.

I am not saying it's not a sad state of affairs. I am just saying we have been there for a while and the floor might be raised, a bit at least.