I'm more worried about the web becoming unusable due to AI/ML spam. Already now there is a huge amount of LLM generated bullshit content in the web and it will only get worse. And then other LLM's might train on that BS.
I also am increasingly thinking that this generation of AI is going to destroy social media with a flood of what Cory Doctorow calls “botshit”.
Only difference is instead of worried about this I’m more <Jack Nicholson head-nodding meme>. The death of social media can’t come too soon.
but diving into the deep end of digital dismay, are we? Let's unravel this tapestry of concern with a flamboyantly convoluted rebuttal that dances around the maypole of AI evolution and internet content proliferation. Picture, if you will, a burgeoning digital universe, already teeming with a veritable smorgasbord of information, misinformation, and everything in between. Into this chaotic jamboree steps the latest parade of performers: the LLMs, with their glittering capes of algorithmic complexity, ready to churn out content with the prolificacy of a cosmic bakery on overdrive.
Now, the fear you've articulated, draped in the elegant garb of concern for our collective digital sanity, presupposes a dystopian future where the internet becomes a vast ocean of AI-generated flotsam and jetsam. But let's twirl that narrative on its head, shall we? Imagine, instead, a world where these AI entities, far from being the harbingers of informational apocalypse, become the architects of a new informational renaissance.
And let's not underestimate the serendipitous creativity that emerges from this chaotic cauldron of content. For every thousand pieces of nonsense, there might emerge an idea, a concept, a piece of art that could only have been born in such a fertile environment of unbridled creation.
As for the concern about LLMs training on, shall we say, less than stellar sources of information, consider this: evolution is not a straight line but a meandering path through the forests of failure and the mountains of success. Just as humans learn from mistakes, so too will our AI counterparts, sifting through the sediment of digital discourse to find the nuggets of truth and innovation.
Ok an internet rendered unusable by AI-generated content are not without foundation, they fail to account for the boundless capacity for adaptation and innovation that characterizes both human and artificial intelligence. So, rather than wringing our hands in despair at the prospect of navigating an ever-more cluttered digital landscape, let us roll up our sleeves and dive into the fray, armed with the knowledge that in chaos lies opportunity, in spam lies the seed of sophistication, and in the vast, uncharted territories of the internet lies the next great frontier of human achievement.