I have been spending the past few weeks learning about machine learning and creating neural networks. I still have a long way to go, but I am already imagining potentially powerful AI systems I could create, even with my limited knowledge. I have a few projects in mind, and at least one involving steemit. What I am starting to wonder is...
Is it ok to use AI (bots) to create content?
I don't mean this in the "is it fair" sense. If someone creates quality content, and that someone happens to be an AI, I don't really care.... except, that it's really cool.
What I worry about...
is whether AI produced content leads us further down the click-bate rabbit-hole. All an AI content producer would care about is whether people view an article or if they rate it highly. If they like it. Goals like aesthetic value, quality (I read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and still can't tell you what that word means), or advancement of the human species would not factor into the equation. That is not a figure of speech, we're literally talking about equations creating content. There is nothing wrong with these kinds of equations inherently, but we have to be careful with what we ask them to do.
So can a bot create, or help create, meaningful content?
I am talking about not just quality and up votes, but content that has a real value? Conversely, how can we stop AI content from dictating human culture based on our current mode of economics and modernism? I don't have an answer or an argument here... yet... but maybe one of you steemians does?