生成模型正通过市场选择削弱人类长期学习能力
Generative Models Erode Human Temporal Learning Through Market Selection
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我们指出，当前处于亚通用人工智能水平的生成模型已对知识与文化生产构成结构性风险。人类时间学习（HTL）指通过长时间持续投入问题而积累路径依赖型知识。生成内容在表面特征上日益接近需要长期学习的工作，使得验证其是否源自真实人类学习的成本相对于预期收益变得过高。一旦验证失去经济合理性，评估者将不再区分产出来源，而投入数年学习的生产者不得不与几乎零成本生成的内容竞争价格。我们称此过程为价值坍缩，并通过成本检验框架进行形式化。跨领域的证据——包括学术出版、法律实务、内容平台及软件安全——映射出验证侵蚀的四个阶段。对齐成功与此无关：对齐更好的模型虽缩小了人类与AI输出的可观测差距，使溯源更难，反而加剧了对需长期学习工作的竞争压力，即使单个AI输出质量提升。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
We argue that modern generative models create structural risks for knowledge and cultural production at current, sub-AGI capability levels. We define Human Temporal Learning (HTL) as path-dependent knowledge accumulation through sustained engagement with problems over time. Generative outputs increasingly resemble HTL-intensive work in surface features, so verifying whether a given output reflects genuine human learning grows costly relative to its expected benefit. Once verification loses economic justification, evaluators reward outputs regardless of production mode, and producers who invested years of learning compete on price against outputs that cost almost nothing to generate. We call this pathway value collapse and formalize it through a costly-inspection framework. Cross-domain evidence from academic publishing, legal practice, content platforms, and software security maps onto four stages of verification erosion. Alignment success is orthogonal. Better-aligned models narrow observable gaps between human and AI outputs, making source verification harder and intensifying competitive pressure against HTL-intensive work even when individual AI outputs improve.
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