Here’s my take on where we’re going with AI. Let’s play out the tape.

It’s 4:48pm. Restate my assumptions:

AI content is never going to be perfect because there is no such thing as perfect; even human-generated content is never ‘perfect’. There will always be some degree of hallucinations, and constant updates made to AI models will change their characteristics.
Any content produced by an AI is going to reflect the idiosynchracies of the company that created it and the user using it.
Businesses have made their decision: they prefer to cut costs over quality; they prefer cheaper, AI-generated content over human-generated content.
The primary purpose of a business is to first make money. The quality of information businesses produce is always secondary.
It remains of the utmost importance that businesses generate content as a way of pulling customers into their sales funnel.

Put together, what this tells me is that we can expect to have, in the very near future, two Internets. Why two, and what will be the primary determinate between these two?

How people seek information.

There will be some people who understand that AI is not always reliable and that AI is colored by the priorities of the company that created it (OpenAI, Google, xAI, Anthropic, etc.). In some cases, the CEO of the company that produced it or the techs working on it. There will be some who will purposely avoid AI-generated material and seek AI-free spaces so they know that what they’re reading is true and reliable because they know a human produced it and they know which human produced it.

The other category of people will be those who either:

Do not know how to find AI-free spaces, or
Do not care to avoid AI-generated content.

Because there will be two groups of people, there will be two Internets. One full of reliable, human-generated content that has been explicitly curated to avoid AI-generated content that can’t be trusted and another that is rife with AI-generated, untrustworthy, and corporate profit-enhanced materials.

I would suspect that the first group would be smaller than the second. All kinds of demographic differences will probably play into this, but I think it will be similar to our current media landscape.

One group gets their news from articles, journals, reporters, aka, reliable sources. The other group gets their news from social media.

In the end, once again, our realities are going to come down to how we pursue Truth.

Originally posted: https://medium.com/@bquinn916/a-tale-of-two-internets-425a0a8d34b4

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