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A large portion of the content on the internet is now generated by AI. You can and do have full conversations with bots and not know. I want to interact with h
by stanmancan 3mo ago
A large portion of the content on the internet is now generated by AI.
You can and do have full conversations with bots and not know. I want to interact with humans not LLMs.
There’s no way to combat it. An army of bots can post a specific rhetoric and it can and does sway people’s opinions.
The new version of Digg was shut down because they couldn’t find a way to combat AI. They were at least trying to, other platforms are just eating it up because “user activity” is a win for them.
- nonethewiser 3mo agoBut what is the social damage? Can you quantify the damage, even roughly?
- stanmancan 3mo agoIt's likely nearly impossible to evaluate that in the short term; I think we're looking at generational damage, much of which won't be apparent for years to come.
- legitster 3mo agoThe sloppification of the internet began before AI. Google was SEOing the open internet to death, Reddit had fully baked in a hivemind, and social media became dominated by professional influencers. AI is accelerating but also perhaps backfilling in what was already being lost.
- throwaway85825 3mo agoAI is the same slop but cheaper. Ideally the value of slop approaches zero but the value of quality stays the same.