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In the age of AI, we must protect human creativity as a natural resource

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I'm really struggling with this at the moment. My job is to put out important information for immigrants. I am often putting new information on the internet, or at least a uniquely clear and complete summary of complex information. That information is not easily observable. Getting it requires a network of human beings who are experiencing German bureaucracy in person.

If I had a guaranteed income, I'd dedicate my life to documenting the real world in useful ways.

AI will not replace this work, but it's effectively removing all the incentives to keep doing it. I'm deprived of my audience and its encouraging words. I'm deprived of the revenue that keeps me going. I'm deprived of the community around the website and all the friendships that it spawned.

I wanted to write about the abandoned kasbah of Foum Zguid yesterday, because no one else did. However it feels pointless if it will just end up as an AI summary that's completely disconnect from me.

The way I see it, it's as if the free eggs I gave to my neighbours ended up in a Holiday Inn's breakfast buffet.

Stay strong and don’t give up! You’re providing an incredible value to your community even if you do not see nor reap the rewards directly. As humans in a post internet post pandemic world we need people like you with your perspective, insight and passion more than ever. Building community, navigating the complex real world human networks and subsequent complexity is and will be a uniquely human endeavor… at least until we have functioning protocol droids. Even then there will always be necessity for leaders such as yourself.

Thanks for sharing!

> I wanted to write about the abandoned kasbah of Foum Zguid yesterday,

I know this sounds trite but please do actually post this I'd love to read it. With this kind of post, if anyone learns about it it's far more likely they've learned about it from your blog than having requested info about it directly from AI.

I've a million misgivings about the future with AI and the people who control and benefit from it, but I do still think one valuable thing that will be able to survive is humans ability to direct attention and bring value to otherwise neglected stories like what you're wanting to write about there.

I believe this idea implicitly overstates the value of AI "creativity", most of which is complete sludge.

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