This is a great point, and something I do think about at the same time as I find many great uses for AI tools: “…journalism’s first role is to report honestly, rigorously and relentlessly on the emergence of the AI companies and what they actually mean for society. We *completely* fumbled this with social media, 18 years ago.”
I actually didn’t find social media to be that useful in 2007, as I always preferred blogging. But society thought otherwise, and here we are now. https://masto.onemanandhisblog.com/@adders/114676718671595788