Will AI eventually produce something so close to human output that the distinction between us and them collapses?

That fear treats AI as something that thinks, decides and creates independently. It isn't. Not yet anyway.

As Ashley Faus said during her session at the Beyond the Beige summit: 'AI doesn't behave independently or think independently. It doesn't find problems to solve, a human gives it a problem and asks it for a solution.'

And if the human doesn't have the expertise to notice it's being given generic, average advice, they might assume they've been given expert advice and share that.

It's easy to accept a beige AI post. It sounds plausible, the tone is confident and you're busy, so you post it and move on.

That why so many smart professionals share posts that are technically fine but could be written by anyone average, even if they're advanced ChatGPT or Claude users.

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