Because many people write for virality and clicks and pieces with strong opinions usually have higher reach. “We don’t know” narrative doesn’t sell as well.
There are many people who write deep nuanced articles too, but since they have lower virality, we are usually exposed to the first type of shallower articles and it might seem that there are more of them.
The last few weeks I have been calling this a Crystal Ball moment. We really don’t know where we are with this. Unfortunately humans don’t do very well handling uncertainty and especially when the incentive to wing it and to be the next big AI player is so great. Greed is good according to some apparently.
On some levels this feels like our Prometheus moment, where we are able to create perhaps new forms of intelligence but we cannot at this point say what it will look like or what impact it will have, and we might certainly be ill equipped to handle the impact on society.
There are many people who write deep nuanced articles too, but since they have lower virality, we are usually exposed to the first type of shallower articles and it might seem that there are more of them.