Writing in the Age of Machine Intelligence: AI and the Creator Economy 

What people don't understand is that writing in certain fields and from certain people was already morphing into something resembling capitalist AI. It all served the market and capitalist system so of course it was shaping itself to fit those conditions. The actual implementation of this type of AI isn't much more than proof of who was actually creative and who was just part of the machine already.

You are absolutely right about the coding aspect and where that is heading re: AI. I am astounded that GTP can already write code from instructions given in natural language, and although it is not perfect at it, this is probably low hanging fruit.

This was really encouraging. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on these developments.

good video thank you

That was an excellent take, and I agree that the bottom and middle rungs, per se, of the Creator Economy will be replaced by AI, creating strong incentive to focus on original and deep work. I also agree that AI will prove a boon to those who are striving for deeper work.

Justin sounds a bit like Bostrom in Superintelligence. When we are flooded by AI produced, perfect (but maybe sterile) stuff, human produced stuff will be in demand, e.g. as luxury items.

Dictation is okay, but take care to warm up your voice and mouth, especially if you're also podcasting and vlogging. AI will be interesting if it starts asking good questions and self/other reflexively determining that they are good and that the answers are valid. Pumping out answers based on predictive language modeling is merely recursive. The proliferation of tools reminds me of the record-player passage in G.E.B. It's like a play by ye olde Hof write large.

Agreed that more individual creators will start putting out omnichannel content. Prompt engineering is going to replace Google searching as a generalized skillset, and become second nature to everyone..doesn't matter if you are a writer, artist or a programmer

Good evening Dr Murphy

Well said.

Thoughtful and astute. Many thanks.

How do you make money with the content you create? I never see ads or links to a patreon or something

Agreed

I'm sorry, but I mostly disagree with your basic premisse. I don't think if you flood the world with 99.99999999% lies, people will come to learn to discern the truth. Only so much care or effort can be dedicated per user to such an endeavor, and a niche can only ever be so small to be "profitable". Generative AI also seems to be doing anything BUT the legwork for anything with actual intent and meaning. As it improves it is unlikely sensitivities won't change with it, as well as jobs being lost in a massive scale faster than anyone can adapt (thus shifting worries and the ability to focus). As it gets integrated into the socioeconomic sphere, the modus operandi en masse is far more likely to become to separate one from the process of doing, and to distitute those that actually care to learn how to directly input in the act of creation. Will there be, like you said, people who will reject this? Even retaliate into some sort of humanist movement? Perhaps. Will it pronounce those who are "classically inclined"? Unlikely. Signal is not achieved by adding noise to more noise. But humans are adaptable to any condition. Institutions like schools and such are too gonna have to change to accomodate the new world of AI and people will grow in the confort of outsourcing what was previously thinkable. It'll likely become far harder for people to know or care know the difference between what is artificially or human created, should we keep a similair structure of incentives as the one we have now (which is driving this whole thing forward). Human-like creation that prospers is probably going to be relegated to those already preestablished, randomness or those willing to further distance themselves from integrity and intelligence to more bombastically affirm presence in the algorythmic flood- they will make sure you know what you are seeing is the "real them", but to out-spectacle the infinite surrounding spectacle, one will have to push extremes, and not in intricacy, but well, imagine how "react content" became so profitable and how every aspect of one's personality needs to become hyper-exageratted to retain your attention, such type of things. The appetite for wisdom is far more likely to go down rather than up in such an evolving paradigm. Those few that retain the apetite might have it stronger than ever, but they too are subject to the whims of the new world and have to face the economical and social ramifications of everyone else's usage of AI. Non-AI places, or something equivalent, need to be formed if something like you mentioned is to have any tangible effect. And wether they can grow, face to everything else, is also a hard task to imagine. I do agree that it is pretty pointless to play around with these toys as they are now to get a leg-up on someone else or because of some "first-mover advantage" type of thinking. They will only get better and you wont distinguish yourself from the sludge. Thing is, likely no one will, in time. I'll need to start seeing opposing forces gaining significant traction and establishing themselves firmly before I can assume the demand and supply of intelligent content will in fact not only increase rather than decrease, but also become more profitable. In relative terms, it will of course go down. So if we fail to cultivate people to want to SEARCH for them, we can assume, in time, for it to become almost completely lost. Or maybe we'll have irl guilds, who knows. At this point, not only just because of creativity, but for security and for the sake interpretability of reality (amongst many othe rdangers), I'm starting to think some small countries should start investing in creating infrastructure capable of a fail-safe method of disconneting from the internet without having their entire economy/supply chains collapse. Sillicon Valley, namely e/accers at the forefront of AI, are playing with fire. Small nations should be able to cut out their roots if it means not burning. History hasn't ended, but those who are dependent on the internet in an AI world might as well be living in post-history where reality is impossible to determine (should regulations fail to constrict the damage). Perhaps only in its exodus can the progress of knowledged and artistic culture resume.