Jack Clark: belief

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…Where does the cross-subsidy come from? Bloomberg — we know how that works. If AGI is truly general, and it’s based on what’s out there already, it should be able to do better than media on all dimensions. I think some things, you want to have come from a person for reasons that are based on the fact that we’re people. I think people will preferentially select the media which is fronted by other people, even if they’re making it using other means. I also think you want a kernel of humanity in a load of this stuff. Then there’ll be another type of media which is maybe attached to these subscription models, which is just on-tap permutations of anything and everything. So, there might be two markets that emerge. Even the things we want to come from humans — say we want Ann Landers, the advice columnist, to come from an actual Ann Landers. The Ann Landers of the world — they’re using AIs, maybe surreptitiously, but the value of that is bid down because anyone can do that for the price of energy. So, we don’t really end up with this one part of the revenue-generating sector that can cross-subsidize the other parts. Just if intelligence is pretty cheap, that hits all of media.…

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