> it’s that it drastically increases the number of people who can do things.
Giving the whole world blogspot.com 20 years ago didn't measurably improve the internet, it just added a few more winners and a gigantic increase in low-quality spam pollution.
Bloggers have broken news well in advance of large news outlets, partially because of the ability to publish online rapidly, without knowing HTML or administering a web server.
But it's mostly been used to pollute the internet with useless spam. With generative AI, the same thing will happen. The very example shown here is an Angry Birds clone, patient zero of the pay-to-win hellscape of mobile games. I don't think it's an accident that they had AI in their hands and decided to build that.
Giving the whole world blogspot.com 20 years ago didn't measurably improve the internet, it just added a few more winners and a gigantic increase in low-quality spam pollution.