If I had a guaranteed income, I'd dedicate my life to documenting the real world in useful ways.
AI will not replace this work, but it's effectively removing all the incentives to keep doing it. I'm deprived of my audience and its encouraging words. I'm deprived of the revenue that keeps me going. I'm deprived of the community around the website and all the friendships that it spawned.
I wanted to write about the abandoned kasbah of Foum Zguid yesterday, because no one else did. However it feels pointless if it will just end up as an AI summary that's completely disconnect from me.
The way I see it, it's as if the free eggs I gave to my neighbours ended up in a Holiday Inn's breakfast buffet.
Thanks for sharing!
I know this sounds trite but please do actually post this I'd love to read it. With this kind of post, if anyone learns about it it's far more likely they've learned about it from your blog than having requested info about it directly from AI.
I've a million misgivings about the future with AI and the people who control and benefit from it, but I do still think one valuable thing that will be able to survive is humans ability to direct attention and bring value to otherwise neglected stories like what you're wanting to write about there.
artninja1988•9mo ago