Comment by throw10920
9 days ago
> But I'm not sure there is a business model there at the scale the industry demands.
This is the kicker. When unfettered by regulation or leaders/workers with morals, most industries would rather avoid human curation because they want to sell you something. Amazon sellers would rather you not see or not trust the ratings because they want you to buy their stuff without knowing it's going to fall apart. Amazon makes a profit off it, so they somewhat encourage it (although they also have the dual pressure of knowing that if people distrust Amazon enough they'll leave and go somewhere else, so they have to keep customers somewhat happy).
No, curation has to come from individuals, grassroots organizations, and/or companies without a financial interest in the things being curated - and it has to revolve around a web of trust, because as Reddit has shown, anonymous curation doesn't work once the borderline criminal content marketers find the forum and exploit it.
> The only way out I can see is something along the lines of human curation of human-generated content.
...however, unfortunately, curation doesn't solve the problem of people desiring AI-generated content. That's a much harder problem. Even verifying that something was created by a human in the first place is hard. I don't want to think about that. I'm just going to focus on curation because that's easier and it's also incredibly important for the lowering quality of physical goods as well.
No offense and I understand, but that use of "AI-generated content" sounds like somewhat of an euphemism. I think there are not significant number of people who specifically prefer AI generated versions, but rather it's referring to certain kind of content that the attempt to democratize and trivialize its generation by releasing AI models had completely backfired.
This distinction is important, because while AI is faster than humans, it's at best cheap gateway drugs into skilled human generations.