CEO @ The Atlantic | Co-Founder, Keynote Speaker
The most interesting thing in tech: social media keeps evolving. And if you trace the evolution from Facebook —> Instagram —> YouTube —> TikTok, and then if you add in current trends in AI, you get to a disturbing place. How long is it until a large percentage of the short videos we watch online are algorithmically generated? How long until the most viral short videos are AI-generated humans doing things the machine knows we’ll want to see? I don't think it's that far off. #mostinterestingthingintech
I think about this a lot! Are we becoming observers to a self-feeding content generator? AI certainly can make content creation more efficient, targeted, effective ... but for whom? (P.S. If I follow this thread far enough, I start wondering about emerging alternate realities, and, whoa.) Also, from one Real Live Human to another, the sunrise behind you is so beautiful! 😎
Great post! Nicholas Thompson
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Nicholas Thompson Facebook original algorithm was exactly like TikTok. But then Facebook (1)needed to make money and (2) regulate fake news… then everything changed.
We are seeing this already and it does not bode well for our ability to discern and choose what actually is interesting, necessary or relevant to and for us.
I actually don't watch the short videos -- the only medium I'm on, besides this one, is Instagram, to support my blog, and I don't spend a lot of time watching videos. No F******k, no Twitter, no TikTok for me. That's an easy way to avoid the problem!
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2yAI art is already gaining traction. It's so interesting to watch the evolution of technology that's maturing so rapidly. In the future, I think creators/AI collaboration will be the norm.