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As instant "fake content" becomes more and more like "real content" that takes hours to painstakingly produce, the outcome is clear:

The Internet will become, slowly and then suddenly, completely fake.

It will become a market for lemons.

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" - Google, probablyYou're right, there's been a new article bashing Google every few months for the last 20 years straight. It's probably nothing.Still, it is a bit interesting that this short and simple post is now one of the most upvoted things of all time on Hacker News. There must be a lot of peo... See more

Shein shows one way this can go - it’s built a smartphone-only fast fashion brand that appears to be bigger than H&M and Zara combined in the USA. Part of the Shein story is the pace of inventory and the use of data (it claims to add 8-10k new SKUs every single day) but the other is that it has built this business with cheap shipping and (like ... See more

Platforms are becoming community-led, making it easier for both creators and their audiences to profit from their contributions. 

One of the most underrated negative aspects of one and done airdrops is that new users can feel like they “missed” an ecosystem. This can actually hurt adoption – “oh the airdrop happened already no point in digging into that ecosystem”.

• 55 million global downloads and stream (May, 2020)