Hank: media will soon be flipped over again by autonomous AI agents that create on their own (2024)
prediction · status: came true · last event: came true (2025-10-06) · owner: Hank
In November 2024 Hank predicted that media, already flipped over once, is about to be flipped over again by autonomous AI agents that create on their own.
About: generative artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-11-01 | predicted | Hank says media has already been completely flipped over and is about to be flipped over again by autonomous agents that can create on their own. | Working Through a Crisis with My Brother 00:05:07 |
| 2025-10-06 | came true | With content now able to make itself, Hank wonders what keeps the decentralized web alive and says the web is becoming a ghost town, visited to remember how life used to be shaped (Homestar Runner, Delicious, Fark.com). | The Web is Going to Die 00:03:54 |
What is said about it
10 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he can't keep up: America is changing fast politically, and generative AI on top of a fast-changing media landscape makes him feel behind all the time. — 00:02:22
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says some of Hank's distress is worry about generative AI and some is grappling for the first time with his mortality and future health anxiety. — 00:05:07
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says Hank is trying to view through the lens of the universal something that is intensely personal. — 00:05:36
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he mostly imagines himself through how he imagines others (people he knows, employees, people on Twitter and TikTok) see him. — 00:05:36
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he has realised he doesn't know whether he is a good person without that outside validation. — 00:05:36
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says relying on outside validation is not good because it is always fickle; when it goes, as in a Tumblr 2013 incident, you are left hollow. — 00:05:36
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — John says to build self-worth from within: core relationships are okay, and do good not to be observed but because it is fulfilling and connects you to people. — 00:06:20
- 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says he has a harder time trusting himself about such things than trusting other people. — 00:06:20
- 2025-10-06 · The Web is Going to Die — Hank says change never stops happening and that someday — which is okay — this place here will be a ghost town. — 00:04:23
- 2025-10-06 · The Web is Going to Die — Hank says that someday we will have moved on from Twitter, Facebook and Instagram; he doesn't know to what, but unlike London or Detroit they will not simply evolve. — 00:04:23