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jon christian
@jonchristian.net

been thinking about this a lot lately -- AI seems like a tech that inherently creates economic "doom loops" that extract value from original creative work while destroying the financial incentives to produce more of it ruining culture while making itself worse futurism.com/artificial-i...

futurism.comAI Is Creating "Doom Loops" All Over the EconomyThe AI industry is creating "doom loops" across the economy with products that undermine the economic incentive to create cultural content.

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simias
@svkt.eu

I have the same thought, AI poisons the well it drinks from. If techbros fail to build the god machine we'll be left with bots that are good enough to put many humans out of work, but not good enough to reach the same (or better) level of quality. Just industrial levels of slop.

simias
@svkt.eu

You know how the quality of household appliances dropped these past few decades as companies cut corners and outsourced everything to cheap overseas labor? That, but for literally everything.