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For independent creators, the algorithm takes the place of bosses and performance reviews; it’s a real-time authority gauging your success at adapting to its definition of compelling content, which is always shifting.

This is one ecological lesson we can take from technology: we exist, not alone at the top of the tree, but as one of many flowers which bloom in an endlessly proliferating, entangled and cross-fertilizing thicket.

That’s what happens, it would seem, when the development of AI is led primarily by venture-funded technology companies. The definition of intelligence which is framed, endorsed and ultimately constructed in machines is a profit-seeking, extractive one.

At its worst, blogging incentivizes authors to create a huge number of low quality posts.