Navigating the Future of Content Creation and AI: The Case for Artificial Integrity
Meet Hamilton Mann
Awarded the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement Award for Digital Thinking (2025), Hamilton Mann is a leading AI researcher and a lecturer at INSEAD and HEC Paris. His upcoming book, Artificial Integrity: The Paths to Leading AI Toward a Human-Centered Future (Wiley, 2024), outlines a crucial transformation in how we interact with AI-generated content.
Key Insights:
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The Shift in Content Interaction:
- Users now access synthesized responses from AI without visiting original creators.
- This undermines the traditional exchange where traffic rewarded content creators.
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The Threat to Creators:
- Increased use of “answer engines” erodes the economic sustainability of content creation.
- The information commons faces privatization, limiting access to quality knowledge.
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The Solution: Implementing Artificial Integrity
- Promote clear provenance of information sources.
- Establish fair value flows for creators, ensuring compensation even without clicks.
- Sustain an open, resilient information commons to support long-term knowledge diversity.
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