Is anyone looking at levels of volunteer activity in digital public goods like Wikipedia, Reddit, and stackoverflow and whether exploitation of user content is associated with a decline in human participation?
As companies use ai to convert communal public goods into AI products, while extracting value from them, we could see a general decline in contributions that could lead to ecosystem collapse. Would love to see in depth scholarship wrestling with this. Cc @mako
https://www.infoworld.com/article/3478485/the-rise-and-fall-of-stack-overflow.html/amp/
@natematias @mako @andresmh lots of links in the thread I’m seeing, but also: @nickmvincent and I have been chatting about this directly in HCI spaces, stay tuned