I think it’s gonna be a lot messier than that, actually.

Right now we’re seeing people take on a strong AI stance as a social and cultural value, and things are dividing along those lines. You see it reflected in just about any website that receives content. You either filter out the slop, or you risk becoming a slop website that gets overwhelmed with it (thus the name, slop). Once you’re known as a slop website, you lose value to the anti-AI people.

There’s force behind the AI movement, but it doesn’t have the cultural sway for critical mass. It won’t cleanup easy either, we’re in for decades of messiness, but I don’t think there’s enough force to tip things fully one way or the other, and that’s the world we live in now.

This is the whole overarching problem with tech. Most of us have fairly simple problems with fairly simple solutions, and tech has just straight up solved those needs, sometimes well over a decade ago.

I’m not saying there’s nowhere left for tech to improve, especially in the medical and biotech space, but in the consumer market there’s only so much we realistically need. It has been addressed, end of sentence, but capitalism’s need to extract infinite profit does not jive with solved problems.