My new piece on China’s “Industrial Slop Complex” is out on
i argue that mass-producing AI content won’t necessarily translate into Chinese soft power, and it has more in common with ghost cities: local governments piling into the same promising industry because of
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My new piece on China’s “Industrial Slop Complex” is out on @bigthink!
i argue that mass-producing AI content won’t necessarily translate into Chinese soft power, and it has more in common with ghost cities: local governments piling into the same promising industry because of risk-averseness and memetic tendency.
the result is an exploitative, self-defeating business.
everyone produces more, prices collapse, and the promise of cheap content becomes a race to lose money.
by one estimate, 90% of companies making AI-generated content are now unprofitable.
ps. big shoutout to my editor Kristin Houser and the big think team, for making those great visuals in the printed magazine.
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