🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
Azeem Azharsubstack.com
🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
Besides the infinite social media maelstrom1 and the continuously growing commercialization of the web2, we will soon have to deal with an avalanche of AI-generated content3 as well. The corners of the internet cultivated by individuals are important for its vitality and may even become critical to the very survival of a humane online ecosystem. Ot... See more
lucasdidthis
Content has become like clay. LLMs can remix it, summarize it, elaborate on it, hallucinate it, combine it with other content, freely transform it between text, audio, image, and back again. It seems we have achieved a kind of information post-scarcity. A regime of radical overproduction. A content singularity. How will this change things?
Gordon Brander • LLMs and information post-scarcity
