The dirty little secret of AI: it’s built to give you mediocrity.
AI is the fastest way to sound like everyone else. At its core, an LLM is just a statistical machine running on two rules: probability and pleasing. Because of pleasing, it will happily hallucinate to keep us satisfied. Because of probability, it always seeks the middle of the bell curve, where most of the data lives.
That’s why AI gives us average code, average advice, average LinkedIn posts (we all know that 🚀 emoji…). It’s trained on the majority, and the majority is inevitably mid.
But the truly outstanding knowledge doesn’t live in the middle. It exists at the edges, where data is scarce because only a few people are capable of producing it. It only shows up in the mainstream once it becomes common knowledge, by which point it’s no longer exceptional. Einstein’s theory of relativity was once a groundbreaking concept, but today ChatGPT knows it because it’s become mainstream.
AI won’t hand you the outlier insight or the leap of genius. If you want an edge, you need what isn’t common yet, the brilliant ideas that push beyond the average. That’s where the advantage lies.
And that’s exactly why AI alone isn’t a competitive edge. The edge comes from how experts use it, and what they add on top.
Surrounded by sharks? Genius idea. 🦈 But what scenario could be worse than that?
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A declaration of war against mass AI-generated content? As I see it, the reason is pretty simple:
YouTube recognizes the need for creative, innovative, and original content, and it wants to support creators who put in the effort to make it. They’ve realized that recycled AI-made videos lack innovation and authenticity.
The problem? AI can pump out endless content, flooding the platform and making it harder to store, surface, and promote genuinely good content. That kills motivation for real creators. They’ll earn less, because everyone can just copy what they worked hard to make. YouTube is 100% dependent on creators and needs to keep them incentivized to produce original, quality stuff. Without them, it’s just the same generative mush, over and over and over again.
We’re starting to see what I’ve been saying for a while now: AI is here to help us become the best versions of ourselves, but (at least for now) it can’t replace human creativity. It can only replicate it.
TikTok, Instagram. your move next.
Here’s what people afraid of AI hurting their business don’t understand: when everyone has access to AI, it’s as if no one does.
If everyone is using the same technology, there’s no competitive edge in just using it. The playing field resets, and what makes the difference is the expertise behind it.
The fact studio Ghibli is making $0 out of this while https://t.co/G8LdOHAqpb is raking in the billions after literally stealing their iconic art style is truly f’ed
don't like the ghibli trend. idk man. something about a particular artist's meticulously crafted style being turned into a mass-market on-demand commodity. it doesn't sit right.
is this how it's gonna be from now on? anything good in the world being taken for parts to make slop?