An unbelievable opportunity
Soon our social feeds and search engines will be engulfed beneath a tidal wave of mechanistic mediocrity. It’ll be impossible to sift through it all. People will begin tuning out and retreating into quieter, safer corners of the internet, populated by the small handful of humans they trust.
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
Did Kate Middleton disappear? Why? Did she die? Was she assassinated? Is she just embarrassed of the sickly way she looks? People are going paranoid in speculation. The only knowable thing is we’re at a point where it’s feasible for AI video to impersonate real celerities. This is part of the “trust flip.” We will get duped more and more, until we’
... See moreBut as AI accelerates our ability to (1) generate, (2) manipulate, and (3) distribute information, this weird tension becomes even more pronounced. We're entering an era where the battle between content and context will reshape how all policy is created, communicated, and understood. Digital platforms and AI tools have created an environment where: