Erik Hoel: AI Turns Culture into a Dark Forest
Cognitive scientist Erik Hoel borrowed the 'dark forest' metaphor to argue that AI is making intellectual work a dark forest—people hide half-formed ideas from prompt-driven imitation—and cited OpenAI's hiring of public researchers as hunters being hunted.
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