>eBay and classifieds sites, I usually just want something in a rough ballpark, and the best way to find that is come back and check every day looking through searches.
You already can do that on ebay. Whatever terms get you ballpark results can become a search alert. You don't need to know the items you want exactly. And you get a handy email with the results of that alert when they hit, which you can scroll over in about ten seconds.
And really where is your moat? Why pay for a senior when a junior can prompt an LLM all the same? People are acting like its juniors who are going to be out of work like companies are going to just keep paying seniors for their now obsolete skills.
Where do you think your moat is if you insist on sticking at a level of abstraction where the AI keeps eating into your job, instead of stepping up and handling architecture, systems design, etc. at a higher level?
Honestly, in a lot of ways, yes. I'm a massive critic of Uber, but outside of the hotel areas and nicest neighborhoods, it was often incredibly difficult to successfully call a taxi to pick you up before Uber.
I remember once playing ball all day in the front yard, calling all the taxi companies just on a lark. They'd claim they were sending a driver, that the driver pulled up and honked, but we were outside the entire time. No one ever actually drove up over about 20 calls to 6 cab companies.
Uber/Lyft finally served all neighborhoods mostly equally, and that was a huge benefit.
It might but I’ll be still driving home “intoxicated” so long as the vehicle I drove to the drinking establishment can’t drive itself home. This is why I prefer the model for personal self driving vehicles.
Eventually it won’t matter. People will forget what it was like to have authentic content. They’d look at it like how we might view monks in the middle ages copying the bible a hundred times by hand.
Even today people don’t even trust themselves to write an email. You see people on HN and reddit openly admitting they used ai to help make their post because they believe they cannot write. The march to illiteracy and ignorance is already taking foot.
> People will forget what it was like to have authentic content.
This is already true. Most people on the internet are stuck in tiktok loop anyway. Even chatgpt would struggle to get them. By the time LLMs get good enough, a lot of people who were willing to pay for them would have lost their jobs and they would not be paying for something that costed them their job, many will quit the internet fully. We are looking at value being driven out of internet at a grand scale.
This is a plain fact. The amount of obviously GPT’d text out there is so breathtaking. The good news is that all of this shit people are squeezing out of GPT is really reinvigorating my desire to work on novel creative projects.
In nearly every form of entertainment over the past 2 years, quality has degraded rapidly, to the point where most Reddit threads really aren’t worth reading - they’re all chock full of It’s Not X It’s Y! Most movies are heavily re-explained plots and reboots of old IP, CGI, dialogue glued on after the fact. Pop music has been on life support for 10 or 20 years, and that was before anyone could AI generate whatever derivative sonic slop they wanted to create. Books and publishers are holding strong to avoid GPT, but the desire for Dragon smut will ultimately overwhelm any aesthete’s preference for originality.
>In nearly every form of entertainment over the past 2 years
I mean, it really was on a huge downward trend before two years ago, and you hit on much of that.
Social media and the online advertising age had really destroyed a lot of entertainment well before AI was an issue. Bot-like humans would just copy and mish-mash existing media poorly and attempt to gather the ad dollars for themselves.
Honestly a lot of the enjoyable content I watch these days is from individuals/groups that aren't chasing ad views, but doing more 'donation begging' from their own audience which means they must maintain some level of quality for continued patronage.
One particular problem we seem to have is that we see AI as 'the problem' and not just one issue in a problematic system. Why doesn't Reddit do anything about crap posts and content? They make money off of convincing advertisers that lots of views happen on their site and they should sell ads. Why doesn't Google improve their services? They are a near monopoly in online advertising and service improvement for the end user doesn't increase their revenue.
It's just a system where one group is trying to extract wealth from Google/Facebook whereas Google/Facebook have nearly perfected extracting wealth from you.
It makes sense. Curling my finger it is pretty much dead on 1 inch from the tip to the first joint. My foot is a little shorter than 1 foot, but in shoes, pacing it out one foot after another, it is nearly dead on as well. A lot of people measure using anatomy with conventional units.
You already can do that on ebay. Whatever terms get you ballpark results can become a search alert. You don't need to know the items you want exactly. And you get a handy email with the results of that alert when they hit, which you can scroll over in about ten seconds.
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