AI正从工具转向娱乐,需新框架评估其社会影响。
AI as Entertainment
- 提出'厚娱乐'框架,关注AI内容在意义建构中的作用
- 发现青年群体已广泛使用AI娱乐,成主要收入来源
- 指出当前评估体系重在减害,缺对积极文化价值的衡量
生成式AI系统普遍被设计、评估和宣传为能提升个人、企业及宏观经济生产力的认知增强工具。然而,这一主流叙事与另一新兴用途——娱乐——存在张力。我们指出,学界尚未建立测量或回应娱乐性AI内容社会影响的能力。现有数据表明,AI已广泛用于娱乐目的,尤其受年轻人青睐,并具备巨大潜在收益。我们认为,娱乐将逐渐成为主要科技公司回报巨额基础设施投资的核心商业模式,从而深刻影响未来技术发展方向。审视当前评估实践,我们发现关键不对称:尽管对智能性的评估兼顾效益与危害,但对文化输出的评估几乎仅聚焦于负面影响。我们缺乏明确阐述文化产出积极价值的框架。基于人文学科洞见,提出‘厚娱乐’框架,强调娱乐在意义建构、身份形成与社会联结中的积极作用,而非仅限于最小化伤害。尽管AI常被宣称将变革生产力,长远来看,它可能更像社交媒体一样,本质上是关于‘娱乐’而非‘智能’。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Generative AI systems are predominantly designed, evaluated, and marketed as intelligent systems which will benefit society by augmenting or automating human cognitive labor, promising to increase personal, corporate, and macroeconomic productivity. But this mainstream narrative about what AI is and what it can do is in tension with another emerging use case: entertainment. We argue that the field of AI is unprepared to measure or respond to how the proliferation of entertaining AI-generated content will impact society. Emerging data suggest AI is already widely adopted for entertainment purposes -- especially by young people -- and represents a large potential source of revenue. We contend that entertainment will become a primary business model for major AI corporations seeking returns on massive infrastructure investments; this will exert a powerful influence on the technology these companies produce in the coming years. Examining current evaluation practices, we identify a critical asymmetry: while AI assessments rigorously measure both benefits and harms of intelligence, they focus almost exclusively on cultural harms. We lack frameworks for articulating how cultural outputs might be actively beneficial. Drawing on insights from the humanities, we propose "thick entertainment" as a framework for evaluating AI-generated cultural content -- one that considers entertainment's role in meaning-making, identity formation, and social connection rather than simply minimizing harm. While AI is often touted for its potential to revolutionize productivity, in the long run we may find that AI turns out to be as much about "intelligence" as social media is about social connection.
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