Stephen Moore

I’ve seen this kinda narrative quite a lot. So thought I’d weigh in… First and foremost I strongly disagree. I actually believe we’re about to enter the era of “lifecasting”… Computers have beaten the best chess players in the world since 1997 and chess is bigger now than its ever been, millions of people watch magnus and hikaru stream and almost nobody watches two AI’s play each other even though the AI’s play better chess. A forklift can lift more than any olympic weightlifter and a car is faster than usain bolt and we still watch the olympics, because what we care about is a person pushing their limits, the emotion, the human - because we recognise ourselves, our lives and our dreams somewhere in there. Robin dunbar's research found roughly two thirds of human conversation is about… other people - he made the argument that language mostly evolved so we could gossip and keep track of each other in big groups. This is the need content will increasingly feed in the future. Especially as most of our feeds become full of ai slop. The argument that entertainment will become less human is clearly backwards. In fact every time entertainment adds human resonance we seem to become obsessed with it… F1 cars didnt get any faster or more interesting when drive to survive came out but a global audience - largely of people who previously didn’t care about f1 - became obsessed with it because netflix showed the egos, emotions, human stories and the rivalries. Love island, family vloggers, the premier league, its all the same thing, relatability, a story about ambition and rivalry and people taking risks and getting it wrong, all of which we can see ourselves in. Where i agree is with purely informational content, if your watching someone explain how to fix a boiler then AI will do that better and cheaper and those creators are in trouble. But the stuff thats irreplaceably human gets more valuable as the internet fills up with ai content. So yes the “quant firms” will take everything where the human wasn’t the reason people watched, and i think truly human creators end up worth more than they are now. Podcasting becomes… lifecasting?