The Coming Wave of AI - Promises and Perils for Jobs, Media, and Society
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Generative AI like ChatGPT is advancing quickly, soon gaining the ability to accurately verify information it provides. This could make AI-generated content indistinguishable from human-created works.
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Widespread adoption of accurate, AI-generated content could trigger mass layoffs and job displacement across industries like journalism, marketing, advertising, and consulting.
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Society will need to find ways to repurpose human workers into roles AI can't replicate, involving true inspiration and brilliance. This may shift demand to some manual labor, politics, prostitution, poetry.
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Arguments against AI content include lacking human touch, investigative rigor, and ethical judgment in journalism, and failing to resonate emotionally in marketing. But public desire for low-cost AI content may override.
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Regulation of AI technology and content may emerge as an industry, with guidelines, accountability mechanisms, and limitations to uphold integrity. Society may face a "Terminator of tenure".