AI Turns UGC into a PVP Zone

Another vision is that there's a hybrid model, where companies embrace the fact that human-generated content a) has less scarcity value in a world where things that look like the output of hours of work from talented people can be produced in seconds[4], but b) is valuable as a unique input into such content creation. That's the direction The Diff ... See more

The existence of AI models means that openness is a bigger liability for user-generated content companies. The existence of a successful company in some category indicates demand for the content, so these are the easiest business models to drop into AI. "Quora, but there's no cold-start problem because our LLM can offer an instant answer" is one of... See more

Reid Hoffman and Tyler Cownen recently talked about how AI is good at answering questions but not at asking them—as The Diff noted on Saturday, that makes perfect sense given how the models are constructed: they're trying to predict the highest-probability next token, i.e. they're relentlessly searching for a local maximum. But good questions are a... See more