We are currently coming around a corner in the information landscape where the majority of content on the Internet may well be AI output. It's going to be interesting seeing how the frontier AI companies deal with separating the wheat from the chaff otherwise, it's not clear to me how they will avoid model collapse from the LLMs being trained on their own excrement.
Statistical content generation isn't going to advance (and will actually regress) if the LLMs are just going to be trained mostly on what they said a few months ago.
The issue is that is it even more useful to bad actors. Our society has been based on a certain level of trust.
I remember a world where photographic evidence was good enough to convict beyond a reasonable doubt. We can’t even trust video any longer. Or even that the voice on the other end of the phone is a family member
Acknowledging that the world has already been turned upside down however, rather than burying our head in the sand (present company excluded), is necessary.
I think this tech is going to continue to make the world, on the whole, much worse both globally and personally. I'm not willing to just bend over and take it. So what's the real alternative?
One sliver of optimism I have is that this era of social media rot can finally come to and end if enough people lose trust with online content.
Media has been compromised. Your neighbors are not AI and are probably not part of a billionaires influence campaign
