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A troubling thought about what we will think about high-quality content in the future. Become a Member: https://danielmiessler.com/upgrade See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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S1:Hey. What's up? I just had a particularly disturbing thought. A fresh new type of AI dystopia. So I think we're about to see an inversion in AI quality and expectations. For the last few years, we've been thinking, if we see something and it looks like crap, we're like, nah, obviously they used AI. I think it's about to be the opposite. We see something in it blows us away. Instead of thinking, wow, they must be awesome, they must have really good design skills. They must be really good at copy, they must be really good at product design, or they hired somebody who is good at those things.
S1:And like now I'm impressed because I went to their site and it looks really good. We're no longer going to think that. We're now going to think they used AI. And if something sucks, we're actually going to assume it was human made. And that has a lot of implications I'm not happy with.
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