Cory Doctorow tackles the question of whether AI is in a bubble with a framework. Plot four quadrants with low to high risk tolerance on one axis and low to high value on the other.
Generative AI is good at low value, high risk tolerance tasks like generating text for content spam blogs or AI generated stickers for chat apps where errors aren’t a big deal.
But big money is in replacing humans in fields where there’s low tolerance for errors and the jury’s still out.
