I thought this was interesting, Erik is a great thinker and writer, but I felt as though the bad stuff he doesn't like here, specifically the weird videos for kids, might equally be blamed on photoshop, YouTube, or any other technology in the chain. Alternatively, it can be blamed on specific people and their specific actions.
Like, blame the person that makes the weird videos, not the technology that can both make weird/alien scripts for kids videos and also write my React components and describe what's outside my doorbell camera. It's some serious baby with the bathwater action.
General-purpose technologies are general-purpose.
The behavior he's upset about is currently human behavior. I don't know of anyone who has wired up GPT and asked it to make money and it has decided to start making YouTube videos.
Like, blame the person that makes the weird videos, not the technology that can both make weird/alien scripts for kids videos and also write my React components and describe what's outside my doorbell camera. It's some serious baby with the bathwater action.
General-purpose technologies are general-purpose.
The behavior he's upset about is currently human behavior. I don't know of anyone who has wired up GPT and asked it to make money and it has decided to start making YouTube videos.