I'm really struggling with this at the moment. My job is to put out important information for immigrants. I am often putting new information on the internet, or at least a uniquely clear and complete summary of complex information. That information is not easily observable. Getting it requires a network of human beings who are experiencing German bureaucracy in person.<p>If I had a guaranteed income, I'd dedicate my life to documenting the real world in useful ways.<p>AI will not replace this work, but it's effectively removing all the incentives to keep doing it. I'm deprived of my audience and its encouraging words. I'm deprived of the revenue that keeps me going. I'm deprived of the community around the website and all the friendships that it spawned.<p>I wanted to write about the abandoned kasbah of Foum Zguid yesterday, because no one else did. However it feels pointless if it will just end up as an AI summary that's completely disconnect from me.<p>The way I see it, it's as if the free eggs I gave to my neighbours ended up in a Holiday Inn's breakfast buffet.