An unbelievable opportunity
I suspect we humans do better with constraints; the Internet stripped away the constraint of physical distribution, and now AI is removing the constraint of needing to actually produce content. That this is spoiling the Internet is perhaps the best hope for finding our way back to what is real. Let the virtual world be one of customized content for... See more
Stratechery by Ben Thompson • Regretful Accelerationism
This isn’t to say the digital won’t remain, or even that it won’t remain the primary medium. Rather, I think there are going to be more efforts to make the digital experience more human, to shift our relationships with it. Some say AI threatens this, I say it only reinforces it: nobody, really, likes AI, and our general distaste for it is going to... See more
AI drives the cost of words to zero. The market floods. Consequently, the premium on Authenticity—on blood and bone—skyrockets. The web fills with synthetic noise. Curation becomes the only moat.
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more
We are not just fighting bad content. We are entering a new age where being human is no longer the default—it is a luxury product. The future belongs to... See more