Is your Hive content AI-generated?
And what kind of tolerance do you have for AI-generated s#!t here on Hive?
I was thinking about this just now, how sad it is that when we come across something (in the virtual space in general) that sounds "too good to be true", it probably is. That we've lost faith in discovering genuinely engaging content, and our first assumption now is it's the bots that did it.
Don't get me wrong, in these situations, it 99% of the time is, and is an accurate assessment. Nevertheless, it doesn't bode well for our collective welfare, does it?
Human-generated human. I swear.
For humanity, AI seems to be coming in through the backdoor. I wrote a post on it a couple of days ago, and while most people still agree AI is a long way from interfering (or at least deserving to interfere) with creative pursuits, we have no trouble using it to automate so much of our mundane to-do list. From smarter shopping to catchier marketing, AI has seeped in everywhere, it seems.
I was listening to a podcast yesterday where, asked what advice he would give an up-and-comer, a well-known podcaster said "ask ChatGPT". Doesn't that strike you as a little bit... alarming?
Of course, it was a valid response and fits, after all, the purported purpose of these intelligence models. Why have people following and understanding the trends and the workings of social media growth, when ChatGPT can be your personal assistant and give you summarized access to more content than most humans?
To be fair, I've been experimenting a bit with AI myself for promotional content for my yoga. While I follow along some of the suggestions it makes, I have noted (with a glimmer of satisfaction, I won't lie) that it is still the human eye outperforming the AI. We still manage to communicate with and understand one another more smoothly, even in the chaos of social media, than the AI can.
But for how long?
The other day, I was shocked out of my work flow by an article in Business Insider about how Steven Bartlett from The Diary of a CEO had created a spin-off show using an AI-powered version of himself to host. Granted, the show seems to be much more informational, giving you basic biographies and lookbacks on the lives and careers of various famous billionaires.
But that's probably just because AI isn't yet at the stage where it can host the way Steven can. Yet. It will. No doubt, sooner than we expect.
I keep wondering... what the fuck are we hurrying to? What's the rush? I get getting AI to perform some of the mundane chores you don't wish to be bothered to. I get using AI to generate repetitive, bland shit rather than have people working in those industries. But when AI starts seeping into creative pursuits, then I start to wonder what else these people are using all their spare time for?
Steven, perhaps, has better pastimes on his mind, but if we still think that AI will be used so that humans no longer need to work and can go float on some foreign baby blue waters somewhere, I fear we're deluding ourselves.
The point was let's use AI and automate the shitty jobs nobody wants so we can dedicate ourselves more to growth, to becoming, to transcending perhaps this petty, materialistic mortal plane we're currently trapped on.
If I am using AI to help me in my job, to write my posts on Hive, to automate my grocery deliveries and schedule my day, to make me a dating success and to be my therapist, what the fuck am I still doing?
I'm sorry if I deviated from this platform a bit. I was only trying to put it into a broader online context, and why it seems vitally important to me, still, to nourish this human-generated miracle that is Hive and has been for a decade now.
How do you feel about AI content on Hive?
