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David Perlmutter's avatar

I'll apply this to the media I mainly study as a historian. Cable TV increased the capacity for the production of television, but the advent of streaming services has led largely to the sort of creative straightjacketing TV endured in the network era. Meanwhile, recordings of music seem now to be second-class citizens in the biased eyes of the media in comparison to music streaming- where, even if the company itself is profitable, the actual musicians are not profiting.

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Daniel Nest's avatar

We're living through a pretty massive cultural lag with AI right now. As Ethan Mollick constantly emphasizes, even if all AI progress abruptly stopped today, we have at least a decade's worth of societal change baked into the current models - it'll take a long time for all potential benefits to trickle down and get incorporated into products we use daily and you have the impact we might expect.

And that's if all progress stops entirely, which, as we've seen, is the opposite of what's happening so far.

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