Is generative AI actually a social media problem?

Our friend Ryan Broderick over at Garbage Day thinks so. I hadn’t thought about it this way before, but it’s interesting! In a good piece about the whole “Hank Green uses AI” kerfuffle, Broderick diagnoses the problem thusly: > I’d go so far as to say that without social media — or, rather, the need to compulsively post on social media, to be digitally productive — there’d be almost no reason for generative AI to exist at all… the unspoken anxiety driving the feeling that you must always be making stuff is a fear that you are simply not doing enough. [Link: Hank Green’s anti-AI AI psychosis | https://www.garbageday.email/p/hank-green-s-anti-ai-ai-psychosis?_bhlid=e1cbe208dff21434b503572de9a8d572a291b4a9 | Garbage Day]

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