Dunnoā¦ all the writing Iāve read about the dire future of creativity is based on this AI stuff just sort of magically hanging around while the industry pushing it is on its death drive. I do not expect the current suite of generative software to stick around - sadly, I fear it wonāt disappear entirely but this idea of all ācontentā being subsumed by AI slop in the long term does not seem likely to me.
It is certainly interesting to me how universal this mode of thought is - that the wave of AI is inevitable and its prominent role in our future certain. Have we learnt nothing of crypto and NFTs? Itāll blow over! And be replaced by something even worse!
Part of the reason TikTok saw use as a search engine (2022) is because at that time it was more difficult to generate inauthentic video. Thatās especially relevant in categories like reviews where there is a lot of inauthentic content.
Maybe we will see a shift to live video in the medium-term.
From reading the blogpost, it sounds like the title here is using āonline creatorsā particularly to mean āpeople who make and post videos on Youtube/Tiktok/etc. for ad reads and subscriber money,ā which is a much narrower slice of the pie. That was also always already a tough business, so I donāt know if weāll be able to tell if more people wash out. Not necessarily saying otherwise, just thatād be hard for me to gauge from here.
Anyway, I donāt know what the future holds, but Iām with @rmf in questioning the narrative of inevitability.
@memo Live video is no guarantee of anything either, unfortunately.
Iād love to read more about this sometimeā¦ its something i think about a lot. Iām sooooo so tired of everybody at my work insisting that almost every job is going to be replaced with AI soon and thereās no point denying it or fighting it. (I work in manufacturing too, so everyone saying this is really smug about it 
like ālmao those dumbasses getting degrees in things that obviously wont exist in 5 years 
unlike meā )
Plus, not questioning the āinevitabilityā of it all just gives these companies more power to do whatever they want. If every infringement on our lives/creative activities/whatever is met with a resounding āwell yeah, of COURSEā, why the hell would they stop?? Like nobody is holding me at gunpoint to use midjourney instead of doodling or to brainstorm with chatgpt.
Iām with you on that. The link goes to a podcast, but if youād prefer something in print, the guests for that episode have written a book called The AI Con: How to Fight Big Techās Hype and Create the Future We Want.
For other commentary more generally, Iāve also got more links in the See Also section of the Machine-Generated Garbage Hall of Shame.
OMG I love your Garbage hall of shame! I had heard of a few of the stories, but a lot of these were new to me. That one about Air Canada made me laugh, but unfortunately I agree with the people who said they didnāt have much faith the result would be the same in our country. Claiming that youāre not responsible for the info on your own website really takes the cake!
I canāt bring myself to feel particularly sad that social media influencers might get replaced by AI.
In terms of things like, say, bloggers just genuinely enthusing about their interests, I donāt think AI can fully replace it in its current state.
I have always considered the term ācontent creatorā to be pejorative. To me it means someone sitting in a ācontentā sweatshop churning out drivel to generate pageviews and clicks. I never refer to anything I create as content. It is my writing, my video, my podcast, my episode, or whatever.
Sorry - this is a bit ranty. But I think words matter.
I also never say I āconsume contentā. I read, I listen to music. I watch videos. I am not a consumer, Iām a human being (as far as I know).
End of rant. Thanks for putting up with me. May turn this into a ranty blog post.
@ConcreteLunch I think it deserves to be said. āContentā used in that way is a marketing term ā a term for things they can place around or between ads. We donāt need to indulge marketers by adopting it.
And thanks @frugalgamer! Offloading responsibility is the logical endpoint of treating a chatbot like an āintelligentā agentive being, so thatās something to watch out for (and a pretty embedded feature of āAIā rhetoric).
I only ācreate contentā in the bathroom.
Same here. I do see a lot of ai related videos rolling around on social media that are influencer like. Iām not entirely sure what software that theyāre using to mimic influencers, but it could be Googleās new ai video software(VEO) or CapNCut.
I donāt see AI ever replacing blog owners or community owners ever though. Their systems arenāt able to take away actual creators specifically as weāre able to create better things that they can. Actual creators will always remain at the fore front.