AI Devalues Human Thinking While Human Attention Becomes Scarce
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Summary
The article discusses how AI's ability to rapidly generate content and tools is devaluing human thinking while simultaneously increasing the value of human attention. As AI can now create numerous products and content pieces effortlessly, the scarcity of human attention becomes the new competitive advantage. The piece explores the tension between these two trends and what it means for creators and businesses in an AI-saturated landscape.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledEvery morning a few thousand people wake up and ship something. A tool, a SaaS, a newsletter, an app that does the thing the other app does but slightly differently. They post it on Hacker News. Nobody clicks.
An AI can wake up (or whatever it does at 3am) and ship twelve of these before breakfast.
The value of human thinking is going down. You probably knew this. The corollary is rarely mentioned: the value of a human eyeball is going up, because there are only so many of them.
The value of human thinking is going down. The value of human attention is going up. Those two facts are pointing in very different directions.
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