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Comment by wnkrshm | Hacker News Reader

When the internet is flooded with crappy AI content, people will move to walled gardens even more, since they can afford the cost of moderation.

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LinkedIn is pretty walled, and it's a cesspool. What prevents Brian Jones, a 100% legitimate human being, from pasting in a few GPT-generated posts to improve his posting activity?

At the end of the day, you have to filter on quality.

I wonder if there could be some standard at the device level with copy/paste and signing/verifying that you did not or the source from where you did copy from?

Well, what if I generate some nice GPT-based content on my personal computer, look at it on the screen, and then re-type it by hand on my "protected" smartphone?

All you end up doing is implementing another ham-fisted DRM scheme that ultimately accomplishes nothing but makes the pointy-haired bosses happy. Solving social problems like this with "moar technology" is, in the general case, not a recipe for success, and I don't see why this would be any different.

true, such an interesting problem. you're right, maybe more like a social solution than strictly tech.

Which is hard, when you're looking for an answer: something you don't know. How do you tell what's "quality" and what's not?

LinkedIn is actually better off than most sites, because it already has a "people you actually know" filter built in. If you've connect to randoms, you'll get random content. But if you connect only to people you know, you have a decent filter. And if people you know start posting rubbish, block them.

Any pseudoymous sites are in a worse position, because you can't tell a person from a bot.

All it takes is one bot to get in the walled garden though and it is the same.

It is not exactly the same though. To torture this metaphor a bit more, it is easier to weed and prune a walled garden than it is to maintain a commons. Effective gatekeeping makes it a bit harder or more expensive for attackers to join communities and this also makes moderation of these invaders more costly for them, so they have to spend more time/effort to maintain the masquerade if they do not want to waste the expenditure required to enter the community.

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