Thoughts about AI generated content and it’s future irrelevance

The Future of Content Creation in the Age of AI: Challenges and Concerns

As artificial intelligence increasingly dominates content generation, questions arise about the reliability and authenticity of digital information. What happens when most articles, job listings, and communications are crafted by AI? Can we still trust the content we consume online?

One significant issue linked to AI’s proliferation is what might be called the “believability collapse.” Imagine a scenario where an entire domain—say, employment postings—is primarily populated by AI-generated material. If the content is uniformly produced by machines, how can we discern genuine information from fabricated or manipulated data? The foundation of trust in digital content could become fundamentally compromised.

Historically, in the pre-AI era, evaluating writing quality offered insights into a person’s thinking and communication skills. For example, analyzing a resume provided clues about a candidate’s personality and competence. A poorly written resume, while not perfect, still conveyed valuable information about the individual’s thought process. However, with AI now capable of generating impeccable, tailored resumes and polished messages, this diagnostic value diminishes. The authenticity that once helped us judge credibility is eroding, reducing resumes—and similar mediated communications—to mere polished facades, akin to sophisticated business cards.

This challenge extends beyond resumes to all forms of mediated communication: emails, texts, voicemails, and even video messages. If the majority can be AI-produced, distinguishing between human and machine becomes increasingly difficult. To combat this, future solutions might include digital tags like “Generated by a human” or biometric verification methods that authenticate the identity of the communicator in real time. Such measures could become standard to ensure trustworthiness in digital interactions.

Without reliable authentication, the fundamental value of online communication diminishes. If we cannot be certain whether a message originated from a genuine person or an AI, our dependence on digital interactions may wane, pushing us back toward face-to-face communication as the only truly trustworthy medium. This raises a critical dilemma: if reverting to traditional, non-AI methods becomes necessary for trust, what is the point of investing heavily in AI systems in the first place?

In summary, the rapid and widespread production of AI-generated content threatens to undermine the very mediums—text, audio, video, and images—that have historically facilitated human connection and information exchange. If these channels lose credibility, we risk entering a “trust crisis” that could accelerate a shift toward more isolated, face-to-face interactions. The pace at which this technology evolves suggests a scenario akin to the “Dark