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plumbline··on AI slop is killing online communities
This is actually my hope for AI-gen content as well. That after it gets so 'good' that people genuinely can't distinguish it from reality anymore that they'll retreat (or return triumphantly rather) to the physical world to gather truthful fulfilling experiences and dopamine.
plumbline··on AI slop is killing online communities
Do we need a new carbon-credit style market for companies that want to continue putting out such slop and paying for moderators to remove the waste after it's been made?
plumbline··on Agents need control flow, not more prompts
I've been thinking about this a lot actually. It can almost be related to the conversation about specialization. The more specialized a model is required to be, the less capable it seems to be at a foundational level, where as if you just aim towards a liiitle bit of abstraction, you might get the best of both worlds.

Here's a pretty specific example of what I mean, but maybe food for thought:

Podcast (20 minute digest): https://pub-6333550e348d4a5abe6f40ae47d2925c.r2.dev/EP008.ht...

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00225