Ironically it’s because increasingly it’s 100 words generated by an LLM from a 10 word prompt. We’ve effectively found a way to keep entire datacenters humming to do nothing more than obfuscate signal in very expensive noise and the lossily try and extract it again.
To be fair, advertisement-economics already created that problem, but the degradation of communication in pursuit of lucre was done by human employees.
The technology changes just allow those companies to be more ruthlessly inane about it.
Some companies measure and human attention as an exploitable asset, yet individuals have a hard time controlling who takes it from them and how much... Is that a market failure? Or just a physiological one?
My colleagues use chatgpt to generate very long and eloquent walls of text in slack, then I use slack's new AI summarisation feature to extract their actual point. Insanity
