@neavvy thanks for sharing this interesting post.
@crypto.piotr I see AI developing a lot in the near future but I don’t expect a huge impact of AI in social media. At least not in the coming couple of years.
If you think about the social media, why it has grown so much in the past years... people post, share, like items to interact with other people. When I post something in SteemIt I am mostly interested in feedback from people who read it, giving their opinion which is based on a lot of complex factors like the environment they grew up, the family/relationship they had, the culture affecting this very personal and honest opinion. This is unreplaceable in my opinion.
In matters where we have human creation, imagination, emotion etc. I don’t think AI can come even near the level of the complexity of human way of thinking.
Sure, AI can have a more supportive role in social media. Can do a lot of prep work for an author or commenter by doing fast analysis about some topics. But the human blog post containing human feeling and emotions can simply not be created by AI. At least not now, to the best of my knowledge.
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Thank you for you feedback @lion200 :)
That's 100% true. AI would need to analyze hundreds of thousand of comments in order to learn to simulate those complex factors and create something like "artificial circumstances". This is probably the only way it can liken to the human content creators and ensure this uniqueness of opinions.
Following its current development, even though it is exponential, it will probably not. But we can't be sure that there will be no significant breakthrough in the future.
I fully agree with this statement :)
Dear @lion200
You may be right.
That's true. But AI working as an "assistant" can easily fool many. Just the way bots did on instagram and facebook in the past. It took years for people to learn how to recognize bot. It will be even harder to recognize combination of account run by human + AI.
I'm not worried about AI posting articles. What worries me that AI can analyze articles and be used as a support to build engagement. By posting short comments, but comments related to discussed topic. Comments that look genuine.
I bet most people would not be able to recognize 2-3 sentences in their comment section posted by AI. Wouldn't you agree?
Would you be able to "compete" with users who build their engagement that way? I can forsee this industry (social media) being dominated by those who use AI to support their work. And "regular joe" will have very little chances to gain any traction.
Have a great week ahead,
Yours
Piotr
Yes maybe an AI can produce some meaningful sentences about the discussion but if you look at what we are doing now... comment on comment on comment about various topics and subjects... don’t know if an AI come close to this. Time will tell I guess :)
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Very true @lion200
AI could not do that much. But it surely could go around and "analize" posts plus add 2-3 sentences that are somehow related to commented post.
Imagine that each morning you would wake up with new 1000 posts commented by you AI. Many people still reply to bots thinking that those are humans. Even more would reply to comment done by AI.
So each morning your follower base would be growing like crazy. On top of that you need to hire someone full time from developing countries (like Venezuela) who would be replying to all received comments and BAM .... you're king of social media :)
Cheers
Piotr