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Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by 13years »

i_am_jl wrote: post #6
13years wrote: post #2

The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. This is just the beginning of the unfolding of an enormous set of unexpected consequences of AI. FYI,I have written extensively on other disruptions that are likely coming "We had hoped technology would replace monotonous tasks while leaving us more time for creative exploration. Instead we are getting exactly the oppo…

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

A lot are hosting it because they found a way to generate revenue off of it.

"Per the report, over 141 "blue chip" — or internationally recognized — brands are unknowingly supporting hundreds of low-effort AI content farms."

https://futurism.com/content-farms-ai

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by binjooou »

13years wrote: post #2

The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. This is just the beginning of the unfolding of an enormous set of unexpected consequences of AI. FYI,I have written extensively on other disruptions that are likely coming "We had hoped technology would replace monotonous tasks while leaving us more time for creative exploration. Instead we are getting exactly the oppo…

This why I'm skeptical of superintelligent AI.

The output of AI's is essentially lossy, so when you feed that back in as an autonomous loop you get the equivalent of a 100x re-saved jpeg, aka complete garbage.

AI's wont have any more useful data to gobble up.

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by mkaic »

binjooou wrote: post #13
13years wrote: post #2

The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. This is just the beginning of the unfolding of an enormous set of unexpected consequences of AI. FYI,I have written extensively on other disruptions that are likely coming "We had hoped technology would replace monotonous tasks while leaving us more time for creative exploration. Instead we are getting exactly the oppo…

This why I'm skeptical of superintelligent AI. The output of AI's is essentially lossy, so when you feed that back in as an autonomous loop you get the equivalent of a 100x re-saved jpeg, aka complete garbage. AI's wont have any more useful data to gobble up.

I don't think we need any more useful data for the AIs to gobble up — we just need to make the architectures we train more data-efficient. In my mind, a few petabytes of text, images, audio, and videos from the pre-AI era should be more than enough to train an AGI, we just haven't figured out how to do it yet.

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by rideontime »

i_am_jl wrote: post #6
13years wrote: post #2

The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. This is just the beginning of the unfolding of an enormous set of unexpected consequences of AI. FYI,I have written extensively on other disruptions that are likely coming "We had hoped technology would replace monotonous tasks while leaving us more time for creative exploration. Instead we are getting exactly the oppo…

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

Children raised on AI-generated storybooks, who think that’s just what “content” is.

(That’s unrealistically cynical… I hope.)

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by 13years »

simonmesmith wrote: post #7
i_am_jl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

I agree. I also keep thinking: If ChatGPT (etc.) can write such content, and I'm interested in it, then why won't I just ask ChatGPT for the information directly rather than going to someone's bloated website?

That is an evolution I perceive coming at some point. It will be essentially the end of all middleware.

Leveraging AI to make your business more productive is a short term temporary evolution. Longer term most businesses will have no purpose.

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by 13years »

rideontime wrote: post #15
i_am_jl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

Children raised on AI-generated storybooks, who think that’s just what “content” is. (That’s unrealistically cynical… I hope.)

It will be worse. People already let cellphones and social media become toys/babysitters for children.

Next, AI will become your child's closest companion and they will bond with it greater than to their own parents.

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by DelightOne »

simonmesmith wrote: post #7
i_am_jl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. I'm less pessimistic, simply because this content is trash. It's not just that it's inaccurate, it's also that it's uninteresting and repetitive. Who will consume it? If no one will consume it, who will host it, and for what purpose?

I agree. I also keep thinking: If ChatGPT (etc.) can write such content, and I'm interested in it, then why won't I just ask ChatGPT for the information directly rather than going to someone's bloated website?

Why is ChatGPT allowed to do it and not Google?

Re: G/O Media Incorporating AI-Generated Content

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Post by basch »

13years wrote: post #2

The internet is going to become bedlam and madness drowning in the noise of auto generated content. This is just the beginning of the unfolding of an enormous set of unexpected consequences of AI. FYI,I have written extensively on other disruptions that are likely coming "We had hoped technology would replace monotonous tasks while leaving us more time for creative exploration. Instead we are getting exactly the oppo…

Which will make aggregators, filters, sifters all the more important.

Unfortunately the high quality solution is to throw humans in the mix and have their brains absorb the shrapnel, and they can approve what others should look at. Like techmeme.com and drudgereport.com

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