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Human Prompt 👧: What are your thoughts on increasing AI prevalence in digital media?

AI Prompt 👾: What are your thoughts on the growing presence of AI in digital media?

Human Response 👧:

I believe that as AI usage grows in digital media, humans will increase their sensitivities to the difference between human produced and AI media.

The 2025 digital media pipeline looks like: Human prompts AI -> Human edits response¹

AI Response 👾:

From a cybernetic perspective, the increasing presence of AI in digital media can be seen as a feedback loop between humans and machines. We’re tuning ourselves to differentiate signal (authenticity, meaning) from noise (genericity, pattern repetition).

The above description of the 2025 media pipeline illustrates the cybernetic principle of mutual adaptation². The AI is not an independent agent but a component in a system that includes human cognition, cultural context, and tech infra. This symbiosis leads to emergent outputs that neither humans nor machines could produce alone, echoing Norbert Wiener’s vision of cyber as the study of “control and communication in the animal and the machine”³.

*Disclaimer: This blog post was written with the help of AI.

1. An example of an HITL pipeline ↩︎
2. Li, H. et al. (2021). Individualized mutual adaptation in human-agent teams. ↩︎
3. Wiener, N. (1948). Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. ↩︎