The crypto bros turned to AI bros. I have a close friend that fits the profile and he's now a distinguished author of multiple books published on Amazon.
Is he actually profiting?
if he's selling his method to dupes, he must be
Scammy AI-Generated Books Are Flooding Amazon
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#12Not just books. I remember seeing a "movie" on Amazon (not sure if it was Prime or some other service I was subscribed to). It was called "how to pronounce 'Stranger Things'", and the total length was about 10 seconds. I'll leave the plot to your imagination.
Noticed a trend on Amazon Prime where movies are allowed to have inaccurate dates. So it'll say (2023) but the second it starts you can tell it's 90s, 00s or even 70s.
Really damages the perceived quality of the service when it can be gamed like that.
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#13As platforms become flooded with AI-generated garbage, I wonder how people will be able to find meaningful content. Are there going to be a new set of AI tools for content curation? It just seems like this will only spark a new AI-driven arms race.
The old fashion way, friends.
I only have so much time in the day. I can only consume so much content. I don't need AI or machine learning to filter a firehose of content.
My friends provide a human scale stream of recommendation that I trust much more than a profit driven algorithm.
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#14Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.
Just like crypto, but this time it destroys the fabric of society. Neat!
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#15As platforms become flooded with AI-generated garbage, I wonder how people will be able to find meaningful content. Are there going to be a new set of AI tools for content curation? It just seems like this will only spark a new AI-driven arms race.
The sanest would be to enforce a labelling policy with a user report mechanism and a user opt-out filter.
That said this won't happen and platforms will shift from metrics like views to things like number of uploads or "shares" to show "growth".
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#16Youtube is becoming flooded with influencers showing you how to do it and promising massive imaginary profits. Same for AI generated Etsy designs, copywriting gigs, and various other things.
I get a kick out of people pushing the "Earn $5-$10k extra A WEEK with this one simple hustle!" The hustle? Spam amazon affiliate links, lol. Of course the people pushing this never bother with pushing affiliate links, just trying to sell you the guide on how to do it.
This is a very good video on this exact topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bq3SdfzcA4
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#17As platforms become flooded with AI-generated garbage, I wonder how people will be able to find meaningful content. Are there going to be a new set of AI tools for content curation? It just seems like this will only spark a new AI-driven arms race.
I think that individuals who care about meaningful, non-deceitful content, will have to create their own parallel net in which content can be sanity-checked and fact-checked.
Fast, free, or fact: pick any two. The current internet is fast and free, but is increasingly non-factual. An alternative emphasizing meaningful facts and observations will almost necessarily be slower.
We might even be able to use pressed bleached dead trees as a backup medium.
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#18It's "funny"... In a way I feel like AI is always stated as the problem here but isn't it people that are the problem?
I mean, I get that you can't control what the entire population does but, AI is a powerful tool that enables a lot of incredible things we may have never imagined being possible before. And it's not even out of its infancy yet. But people are ruining it.
Similarly, a decentralized currency or decentralized ledger is a pretty great idea for a lot of things. The execution could use work but there are a lot of benefits to that. But it ended up being a way for a bunch of bros to scam a quick buck and now it's a joke.
I'm not here as some jaded blind fanboy or crypto bro. I legit just hate how people ruin everything for the rest of us. I want to be able to enjoy cool new tech and interesting new ways of achieving things or learning. I want to see innovation. But what we get is "everything is trash because people are trash and will do anything to get money"
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#19How do we know these books are AI generated? Because the startup "Reality Defender" said so? This feels like they're deliberately singling out trash books and calling them AI-generated to fit their bias. It doesn't seem fair, since the AI content I've generated myself has been better than any book I've ever read. In fact, it's inspired me to generate my first book, which I'll be publishing soon.
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#20I'm pretty sure the ads displayed on my Kindle are all for AI generated children's books lately. It's actually kind of fun looking at them to find the AI generated artifacts (e.g little girl building snowman has three fingers, etc.) Not sure who's actually buying these things...