Chris Dixon: prediction

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…Of course. In five years, are we ending up with just the rest of the internet atrophying, and we have five to ten services? I love the AI stuff. It’s better. I use it, but I worry that we’re going to look around in five years and realize we just recreated a structure that looks like — I don’t know — broadcast TV in the 1970s. You have four channels. [laughs] The beauty of the web, the serendipity, the diversity, the ability for somebody to just spin up a blog. This is how a lot of my career got started. I think you’ve been blogging for, what, 20 years or something, every day? Is the ability to do that going to be lost because there’s now no way to get discovered anymore because links aren’t really needed? On one hand, it’s great for people. I’m by no means anti-AI or technology, but I do think we need to think about — and I’m a little bit surprised more people aren’t thinking about — what kind of internet do we want, and are we creating the right incentive systems to maintain that? By the way, more broadly, look at these. Just today, the new ChatGPT, was it 4o Image thing came out, which looks amazing. It’s gorgeous, yes.…

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