Yes. The real threat may not be the extinction of humanity, but of creativity.
AI is just harvesting the existing output of humanity. Once it burns through that it will just become stale, or produce vapid nonsense that we all ignore. So us humans will lose our creative edge.
Knowledge will resemble fashion, where divorced of any practicality all we will care about is novelty and wow factor.
Now if AI comes up with a hint of something both new and important, who will be bothered to interpret and appreciate it?
> AI is just harvesting the existing output of humanity. Once it burns through that it will just become stale, or produce vapid nonsense that we all ignore.
What? I don't think content we send into LLM is a one-time consumable. The output will be the same level over time, it doesn't devolve into nonsense.
I'm also super interested in if this reduces total global human writing output or not. I think it will clearly have an impact, but I am not confident enough to say which way it will go
AI is just harvesting the existing output of humanity. Once it burns through that it will just become stale, or produce vapid nonsense that we all ignore. So us humans will lose our creative edge.
Knowledge will resemble fashion, where divorced of any practicality all we will care about is novelty and wow factor.
Now if AI comes up with a hint of something both new and important, who will be bothered to interpret and appreciate it?