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0 pointsstanmancan16d ago0 comments

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.

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legitster16d ago· 1 in thread

The 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.

throwaway8582516d ago

AI is the same slop but cheaper. Ideally the value of slop approaches zero but the value of quality stays the same.

nonethewiser16d ago· 1 in thread

But what is the social damage? Can you quantify the damage, even roughly?

stanmancanOP16d ago

It'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.

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