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Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#21
For a year or two now, I've been saying this is inevitable. It's also going to heavily impact open forums like reddit and 4chan, and maybe even HN.

It'll be hard to identify a spammer who posts like a normal person but occasionally leaves a comment about enjoying a product.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#22

>> In the last few months, the constant flood of algorithmically generated junk content has kicked into an AI-powered overdrive, and it is cutting a swath of destruction as it overwhelms search engines, filters, and moderation systems Nothing that wasn't happening already since some 15 years or so.

"nothing ever happens"

Believe it or not, sometimes things happen.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#23
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are massively underestimating how quickly AI generated content is going to dominate the web. This is something new.

I don't know. People have been saying quite confidently that "AI" is "going to" "take over" the web since ChatGPT was announced. I live online and my only exposure to AI-generated content (that I recognize, of course, but that's another discussion) has been on purpose - when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over? I think what people mea…

> when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over

Dunno if you follow gaming news at all, but AI spam has become the rule if you look for anything on new popular games

If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like generated content

They are usually wrong, too

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#24
post #20

What's interesting to me is how quickly AI generated art came to be expected, unexceptional. Every random blog post has a couple AI generated images now, they are completely unremarkable and uninteresting. The novelty wore off basically instantaneously. They're just the new corporate art style.

It’s only been a year. As SORA shows, state of the art images and videos will soon be undetectable by human eye and it’s very soon coming to proliferate every “content” you interact with.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#25
More "Enshittification".

It is just happening so much faster than expected.

For a little while there were studies about AI training data being poisoned by the AI generated content online. AI digesting AI.

It was expected to happen 'in the future' not 'the day after tomorrow'.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#26
post #20

What's interesting to me is how quickly AI generated art came to be expected, unexceptional. Every random blog post has a couple AI generated images now, they are completely unremarkable and uninteresting. The novelty wore off basically instantaneously. They're just the new corporate art style.

It’s only been a year. As SORA shows, state of the art images and videos will soon be undetectable by human eye and it’s very soon coming to proliferate every “content” you interact with.

Does it really matter? AI will generate the images or video according to the introduces prompts so the creativity falls in the one entering them, you could be an excellent piano player but that doesn’t make you a composer.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#27
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know. People have been saying quite confidently that "AI" is "going to" "take over" the web since ChatGPT was announced. I live online and my only exposure to AI-generated content (that I recognize, of course, but that's another discussion) has been on purpose - when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over? I think what people mea…

> when I look for it, use it myself, or others share what they're doing with it. I guess I'm still waiting for it to take over Dunno if you follow gaming news at all, but AI spam has become the rule if you look for anything on new popular games If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like gene…

Current amount of SEO spam is nowhere near the 2007 levels, when the entire first page of Google results was your search query with stuff like "xxx", "2007 crack", or "download free" attached to it.

>If you want to know how to solve a puzzle or compare two characters or something, it is almost guaranteed that you will come across pages of search results that seem like generated content

This kind of content was never genuine. It was always low effort trash made to cheat search engines. It was either outsourced to copywriters regurgitating the same content over and over, or automatically generated when possible. Automating it with LLMs simply made it obvious.

Amazon book scams is the age-old tradition at this point, it exists for well over a decade and is a result of Amazon not willing to spend even one cent on manual curation.

OP might have a point, but it's still mostly typical microblogging ragebait with unrelated stuff mixed in.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#28
I ran into this today while searching for a way to merge channels in Slack. A google search turned up this result https://www.process.st/how-to/merge-channels-in-slack/ which describes an in-app method that does not exist.

That entire website should be banned from Google.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#29
Maybe it will put emphasis on the social aspect of internet. Maybe people will be more sceptikal. by having t know your source, having small but trustworthy network based on real people...

maybe that will change the shape of internet and lead to premium internet service where experts are paid to provide currated informations.

does not sounds too bad tbh.

Re: Something exceptionally grim is happening on the Internet

#30
post #20

What's interesting to me is how quickly AI generated art came to be expected, unexceptional. Every random blog post has a couple AI generated images now, they are completely unremarkable and uninteresting. The novelty wore off basically instantaneously. They're just the new corporate art style.

I think it is like if you gave everyone spray paint cans and said go paint, you wouldn't expect all the buildings around to have giant Basquiat inspired murals everywhere.

It would just be ugly, shitty graffiti, everywhere.

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