The Problem Isn't AI, It's Incentive Design
tallmetommy · x · 2026-07-06
The author argues that the real crux isn't AI itself, but platform incentive design. When platforms reward "scraping and extracting" over "original creation," people stop producing original signals and start farming others' labor; AI merely acts as a faster photocopier. The future requires content provenance, creator fingerprints, and systems that reward the "first spark of human ingenuity" rather than the 500th remix, ensuring that sharing amplifies creation rather than replacing it.
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