How does that account for all the things that change in the world, but in ways only humans can observe?
How can AI discover that a beloved tourist destination has turned to crap, or that the best vacuum cleaner of 2022 has a new challenger, or that German tipping culture is shifting, or that the café down the road has great banana bread but is a little loud on Saturdays?
Generative AI still relies on the work of the creators whose livelihood it threatens for its training data. It still relies on someone else experiencing the real world, and describing it for them. It just denies them their audience or the fruit of their labour.
Someone here put it nicely: AI companies are eating their seed corn.
its not, and expecting companies to follow it is naive.
I will never not be amused by people clutching pearls about this.
Even Hacker News users report being affected: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397361
There are countless examples of "AI" DDOSing of independent websites if you care to search for them.
Note: I do not endorse the linked blogger
drannex•5mo ago