Too late, it's already in the bloodstream, LLMs will be recommending things to pediatric doctors and families from fabricated archives for years, probably.
I've been posting vinyl on Instagram for seven years now. I've made some friends and participate in a variety of group posts using hashtags as a signpost. AI search has all but obliterated this system. I can't even find the posts where the themes for our group posts are shared anymore. AI determines whose accounts I see. I now see more ads in the feed than posts by the people I follow. Music discovery is all but impossible the way things have degenerated. I'm now going back to blogs, music label sites, and reading- gasp- magazines. It might have the unintentional effect of a shot in the arm to old-school media and the self-published web. Or it will open the floodgates for slop to slime everything. Hard to tell at this point.
The point is to have a useful way of getting rid of all the plastic waste we already have and will continue to generate. Plastic isn't going anywhere in the near future because it's a byproduct of natural gas production, which is needed for energy.
This reality alone has made me severely curtail my own social media use and reach. I really only care about a handful of forums attended by (at least... seemingly) people who actually care to think, or have some basic intact humanity and want to converse.
So despite the fact I am very interested in the federated social media to keep my intelletual property out of the cashflow of businesses whose actions are much louder than their pretty sounds in court, it's still one-shot-and-out digital graffiti. I don't think it's worth it.
I know I personally retain things better if I write them out, on paper, than if I type or record them. It's a cognitive advantage every kid not only should be allowed, but at a crucial time of development when they NEED to exercise that muscle.
There are stories out there about how AI is the future for schools and how each kid will have their own learning path tailored for their interests and abilities. Now I know "special ed" back in the day was not much more than glorified daycare and only deepened the stigma the neurodiverse already experienced. but there's a place in the middle somewhere, where kids of different abilities and interests could meet and learn. for different reasons, each kid had to stretch a little- to test their limits, to find new commonalities with others, to learn AND grow together.
I can't help but think automated education tailored for individuals is going to massively backfire. There will be fundamental concepts skipped for the sake of individuality. There will be no sense of social belonging or commiseration/triumph. It's going to feel like- and be as edifying as- the tailored home page of a streaming service that really, honestly knows exactly what you are going to love, leaving you feeling passive and transparent and dumb, certainly not any smarter nor even taken care of, just probed.
A guy could get really screwed if an ai-generated portrait happens to look like them AND if these get added to the facial recognition database considered the gold standard by certain agencies, considered more definitive even than identifying documents produced by the state itself. And I would be 0% surprised to hear that's where things like this end up.
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