> I like the parable that any text content that originated before 2021 now has increasing value, and in certain sense became a digital equivalent of physical "Low-background steel"
It goes even deeper. If OpenAI has 100M users, and they consume let's say 10K tokens per month on average, that means 1 trillion tokens are read by the user base, who then go out and act in the world, at the very least they will read the text. The impact of AI onto the world is huge because we flock to it by the millions.
Such a massive new source of text will surely influence how language is spoken and potentially support many activities, including scientific research. One of the consequences will be much wider circulation of information, as users only need to point it to the right direction and it will readily combine information across multiple fields. Recently updated AIs might be even more informed than domain specialists because nobody got time to read everything new, like LLMs, we still need most of our time for work.
It goes even deeper. If OpenAI has 100M users, and they consume let's say 10K tokens per month on average, that means 1 trillion tokens are read by the user base, who then go out and act in the world, at the very least they will read the text. The impact of AI onto the world is huge because we flock to it by the millions.
Such a massive new source of text will surely influence how language is spoken and potentially support many activities, including scientific research. One of the consequences will be much wider circulation of information, as users only need to point it to the right direction and it will readily combine information across multiple fields. Recently updated AIs might be even more informed than domain specialists because nobody got time to read everything new, like LLMs, we still need most of our time for work.