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1. keiferski · 1790255905 · focus · HN ↗

   In the world of arts/media, I think AI basically only has a future as a hidden thing. Openly admitting that you used AI to make something will be used against you, in order to dismiss your work. For a lot of people/things, it already is - see Hank Green, or the daily comments about "I don't want to read what you didn't write."

   Expect a massive marketing reversal in 6-12 months, when every "AI-powered" company removes the keyword from their home page.

   1. DaSHacka · 1790256805 · focus · HN ↗

      I actually agree with your prediction (on a longer time-scale though) but because I'm convinced it'll go the opposite, where AI begins to blend in to services people use in the background more and more, and people slowly move on and stop caring about it, both in terms of hype and doomerism.

      1. NichoPaolucci · 1790257211 · focus · HN ↗

         I have heard multiple arguments that point towards this future, where AI largely becomes "normal" technology. I'm hopeful for it. There are tons of great use cases for AI, but it absolutely should not be in... everything.

         This feels similar to the timeline that lots of new technologies go through. Blockchain (put that into everything!). The internet + dot com era were probably similar as well.

         Treating ANYTHING like an everything tool just seems to feel this way. There's no reason I want to use AI to buy something on Amazon. Or plan a vacation for me. I absolutely want to use AI to scan through 5000 files and find that one thing I was looking for though. Different applications.

         1. TheOtherHobbes · 1790287708 · focus · HN ↗

            Shopping on Amazon is increasingly like scanning through 5000 files of very similar products at variable prices with variable options and variable delivery choices.

            AI + a custom search engine - which might not use Google's metrics, or Google's sponsorship - would be a killer product.

            So my prediction is that a lot of aggregator and middle man sites - like Amazon - could disappear within the next decade.

            And Google might too.

            An open network of independent search agents would be a gamechanger for the entire Internet.

            Which is not to say this would be easy. But AI is actually well-suited to making ideas like these possible.

            It would - finally - be genuine disintermediation.

            1. satvikpendem · 1790319151 · focus · HN ↗

               Amazon already has an AI search tool via Alexa in its app, which I use to filter out products and largely buy from its suggestions now because of how good a job it does, making sure to also filter out its sponsored suggestions myself.

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