Hot take: AI as a category of technology should be understood as an advancement in the spam side of the eternal arms race that is the Internet.

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Hot take: AI as a category of technology should be understood as an advancement in the spam side of the eternal arms race that is the Internet. AI makes it easy and relatively affordable to custom-generate your own junk email or social media posts that are plausible enough to fool most filters and make it in front of human eyeballs.

From that perspective, AI should be valued to the precise degree we value any other tools that seedy marketers use to flood our inboxes.