Original content / AI-generated distribution

I keep coming across this idea that pretty soon all content is gonna be AI generated. People won't have a reason to make original content, and therefore, these AI models are cannibalizing themselves, because, of course, they need original content to continue training.

And if we remove the incentives to create that original content, they won't have it to train on. And I actually think this is nonsense.

So I just want to push back against this idea. First I'll take the easy version, the straw man of the argument, and then I'll do my best to steal man the argument, and still, I think, take it down.

So the easy version is taking their claim at face value, no one will be creating content. So let's just imagine that world we're in the future.

AI contents everywhere, and literally everyone stops creating original content. These companies desperately need original content to train on, and there's nothing to be found.

I think it's pretty easy to see that in this world, there would actually be some huge incentives for creating original content. Not only would the AI...

n strung together in a particular order? No, they could easily generate that themselves.

Do they need more examples of good sentence structure? No.

They have trillions of pages of that. The actual value in original content is in new information.

So the question is, will people be sharing new information less frequently in this world dominated by AI. Content?

All the evidence I can see points at new information sharing accelerating. It is already so much easier for someone with truly novel, insightful ideas to generate and distribute content representing those ideas.

And yes, I do mean generating content with AI. Then you might say, aha!

See, it's just gonna be more AI. Slop.

The AI. Can't just train on AI.

Slop. But when this is done well, the only thing AI.

Is contributing to is the actual sentence structure, which, again, that's not the thing the AI. Needs when we're talking about original content.

Today, I create hundreds of times as much original content online as I did three years ago. It's almost all AI generated, and I've never had someone say, this looks AI generated...