Craig Hockenberry writing on his blog Furbo.org:
As these generative technologies get better, you will be less likely to trust what appears in your search results. This change will happen at an exponential rate thanks to slop being generated from other slop. […] The human component of the web won’t change. People will need answers that they can trust. Folks on the web are also resourceful; they always have been.
Something new will fill the gap and give people what they need and want. And my guess is that the open web, personal reputation, and word of mouth will be key components of that thing.
What a surprising and positive viewpoint on what has seemed for the last several years (since about GPT-3 debuted) to be a dismal topic of how the open web would be destroyed by AI-generated writing, images, and video.
I hope this is what the future holds. Connecting and following people on Mastodon has been a huge improvement over even the good old days of Twitter for me. There’s this exciting and interesting feeling knowing you are reading someone’s hot take on a software platform you run in your basement than something which spins on a giant data center in deserts of the mid-West!
Here’s to a positive take!