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We could consider the future of Substack. What's going to happen when AI can generate an entire network like this in just a few hours? If that can happen one time, it can happen thousands of times. Thousands of networks each with thousands of fake authors with their fake personalities and their millions of generated articles.

From a business perspective the question would seem to be, how much will the broad public care about the difference between human written articles on Substack, and mass produced AI content that has flooded the Internet because it is so cheap and efficient to produce?

EVIDENCE: Here is America roughly half the country has voted for Trump twice, and may do so yet again. They could be watching C-Span, but instead they're watching Fox. How discriminating do we expect these folks to be when it comes to consuming written Internet content?

How much do you and I care that our cars are now made largely by robots? That's what I see coming to the world of content. We net writers will care when we are replaced, just as the factory workers cared when they were replaced. But the broad public is not going to care.

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If the robots that build our cars had the reliability issues of ChatGPT, the auto industry would be in serious trouble.

And the task that car-building robots perform is analogous to a printer/copier, not an algorithmic text generator.

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