I've been saying for years that generated content is an impending tsunami that's going to drown out all real human voices online. The internet may become effectively unusable as a result for anything other than entertainment.
I am grossed out by this. my instinct is to avoid ai slop. The interesting part to me is: What next? Where do we go? Will it be that "human" forums are pushed further into obscurity of the internet? Or will go so far as that we all start preferring meeting in person? Im clueless here
I was rather thinking classical cryptography baked into generative networks.
Maybe in the future?
I'm a worldcoiner but so far it's just been free money.
Too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
ChatGPT is way too happy to overuse the word cacophony.
Edit: In particular, I'm not convinced the internet was a net positive. Running water and sewage systems, sure. But what has 24/7 smartphone access actually done for our societies? Most people today don't seem any better off than they were in the 80s and 90s, and in many ways that actually matter, they seem worse off. Sure, they have access to way more information than our predecessors ever did... but it's not like we built a better world off it. Mostly the internet has accelerated the concentration of wealth towards the top, increased anxiety across the world, and significantly contributed to the global downfall of representative democracies, to name a few. Sometimes modernity can just be a collection of pathologies with a few beneficial side effects.
Have you seen what most humans say? If an AI says more intelligent things I'm all for it.
And until we get AGI, AI talk will necessarily be some combination of hallucinations, unintelligent, vapid, etc.
And you wouldn’t even know it
Are there any other Internet-based hideaways to retreat to? Somewhere where ads, clout chasing, and AI slop doesn’t exist?
That already happened, even without AI.