To be honest, this development is simply the logical consequence of applying the principle of profit maximization.
Unfortunately, technology has now reached such a scale that the people behind the spreadsheets are willing to sacrifice humanity itself.
That, too, is not surprising, because they will only realize their mistake when it is already too late.
Another example of the same principle is climate change.
I don’t think so. I think AI cranks up the noise to 11, definitely, and makes culture hard to find. I think it spells the doom of search engines like Google for actually finding human-created stuff.
But that culture, that creativity, is still out there. It’s just hard to find. It takes word of mouth and effort to find it. It’s the Dark Forest stage of the Internet.
Yes, that’s probably how it will go.
Culture will likely always exist, but unfortunately it’s now increasingly competing with an even more massive, uniform, and uncreative flood of commercial bullshit.
I fear this will have a disastrous effect. The early signs are already very clear: misinformation on a massive scale, the centralization of “interpretive authority” in the hands of just a few, very powerful companies, and so on.
It’s not as if the internet wasn’t already full of what you might call products of the culture industry, but now these products aren’t even produced by people anymore -instead they’re churned out automatically in an all-consuming flood of mediocrity.