AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

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Post by minimaxir » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

AI Slop Is Flooding Medium
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#2

Post by tartoran » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:11 PM UTC

AI Slop is everywhere and soon to overtake man made content.

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#3

Post by altdataseller » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:12 PM UTC

Replace “Medium” with internet. Otherwise this is just a paid promo piece for Medium

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

tartoran wrote: post #2

AI Slop is everywhere and soon to overtake man made content.

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#5

Post by walterbell » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

Previously, spam has been reported and filtered via "flag" and "report" buttons.

Why is that not sufficient for site operators to separate "AI Slop" from other articles?

If existing sites choose to tolerate "AI Slop" (why doesn't HN have this problem?), does that create a market opportunity for competitors with better filters?

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Post by jgalt212 » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:13 PM UTC

YouTube allows one to report a video for 11 different reasons. A list below. Unfortunately, AI Slop is not one of them.

Sexual content

Violent or repulsive content

Hateful or abusive content

Harassment or bullying

Harmful or dangerous acts

Misinformation

Child abuse

Promotes terrorism

Spam or misleading

Legal issue

Captions issue

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Post by jgalt212 » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:15 PM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #5

Previously, spam has been reported and filtered via "flag" and "report" buttons. Why is that not sufficient for site operators to separate "AI Slop" from other articles? If existing sites choose to tolerate "AI Slop" (why doesn't HN have this problem?), does that create a market opportunity for competitors with better filters?

Before LLMs, the cost to generate spam content was non-zero. Now, it's effectively zero. These infinite supplies of AI Slop should be handled differently and more aggressively that legacy spam.

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Post by doe_eyes » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:19 PM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #5

Previously, spam has been reported and filtered via "flag" and "report" buttons. Why is that not sufficient for site operators to separate "AI Slop" from other articles? If existing sites choose to tolerate "AI Slop" (why doesn't HN have this problem?), does that create a market opportunity for competitors with better filters?

Mostly because most spam isn't going to be reported. Traditional anti-spam works because once you have a handful of reports, you can probably generalize it to an entire class of spammy pages generated using a particular technique, and get rid of everything.

LLM-generated content is not distinguishable from human content by any simple rule, so you lose the ability to police the platform that way.

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#9

Post by 123yawaworht456 » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:19 PM UTC

tbh Medium was slop long before AI slop

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Post by idle_zealot » Mon, Oct 28, 2024, 7:19 PM UTC

jgalt212 wrote: post #6

YouTube allows one to report a video for 11 different reasons. A list below. Unfortunately, AI Slop is not one of them. Sexual content Violent or repulsive content Hateful or abusive content Harassment or bullying Harmful or dangerous acts Misinformation Child abuse Promotes terrorism Spam or misleading Legal issue Captions issue

Why should it be one of them? It's either spam or not a problem beyond “I find it distasteful.”