Welcome to the Age of Noise

Imagine watching an awesome movie on TV 📺, and every few minutes an ad comes blasting by to interrupt the movie.

Would you keep watching that movie?

Hell no! You would turn the TV off.

Scrolling through LinkedIn, I'm seeing the same thing. It's not ads, but AI generated interruptions.

A sea of articulate and meaningless noise that drowns out the sparse meaningful content that's still out there.

I read so much less on LinkedIn because every day there seems to be more AI generated crap I have to wade through.

The content looks great and then when you begin reading you think: "WTF am I reading? It does not make sense."

It's great that everyone can write now, but the readers are suffering.

I see hundreds of AI generated hallucinations every day and the scary part is that some of these hallucinations will be considered truth.

Human writers also make mistakes, but not at this volume. Being motivated and able to write, already removes lots of people from the equation.

AI at the moment is someone with a massive boom blaster that kills the ability to have meaningful connections and conversations.

The AI hype is bigger than it deserves to be based on how good it currently is, hence we experience more noise than signal.

In the words of Sam Altman:

"ChatGPT is not phenomenal. It's mildly embarrassing at best."

I do believe it's a phenomenal step forward, but that's why it's so misleading. It's so much better than anything before, but that doesn't make it great.

I hope the AI bubble pops, or it gets significantly better.

Until then, we will have more noise that appears eloquent yet it gives you that uncanny valley feeling that something is entirely off.