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It’s so interesting, even few years ago I wouldn’t guess the main AI problem was “it generates convincing low-quality blogspam”.

There was all the stuff about singularity and how AI reinforces existing biases, but the most pressing problem seems to be “it’s seems almost right but also very wrong, way too cheaply”



It always comes down to what your investors want.

Remember when Uber was the harbinger of a driverless taxi future? Now they're hoping to be profitable through food delivery, like an impoverished agrarian economy praying for rain.


> I wouldn’t guess the main AI problem was “it generates convincing low-quality blogspam”.

Why not? This is the lowest-hanging fruit there is, and the open web's sole method of monetization has been ads.




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