Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

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Post by vouaobrasil » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:36 PM UTC

Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy
medium.com

Re: Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

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Post by FrustratedMonky » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:52 PM UTC

Leave and go where. Seems like a losing battle, eventually all platforms will be co-opted to feed AI. Even if you have a private web site (blog), it can be scraped, and how are the little guys going to fight it?

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Post by TekMol » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:56 PM UTC

Ice delivery guy goes on strike. Demands ban of fridges.

Re: Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

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Post by andersco » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

This seems like too much of an absolutist stance regarding AI. AI is a tool and as such has both good and bad uses. For example, maybe I have something I feel important to share with the world but I am not a very good writer. If AI can help me express my own ideas more clearly and clean up my grammar, that to me is a great use of AI. On the contrary, letting AI just churn out articles wholesale to me would be an abuse rather than good use. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I think that also is consistent with Medium’s policy.

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Post by ksec » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

What other simple blogging platform alternative are there?

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Post by happytoexplain » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 2:59 PM UTC

TekMol wrote: post #3

Ice delivery guy goes on strike. Demands ban of fridges.

Why be so snide and dismissive regarding people's livelihoods?

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Post by erickhill » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 3:00 PM UTC

FrustratedMonky wrote: post #2

Leave and go where. Seems like a losing battle, eventually all platforms will be co-opted to feed AI. Even if you have a private web site (blog), it can be scraped, and how are the little guys going to fight it?

Can we not put lines in our robots.txt files to block being crawled?

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Post by S0y » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 3:00 PM UTC

Semi related but, googling a problem just to stumble on an 100% written by AI Medium article as the top result, is the bane of my existence.

So really, I can get behind the author.

Re: Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

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Post by coding123 » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

andersco wrote: post #4

This seems like too much of an absolutist stance regarding AI. AI is a tool and as such has both good and bad uses. For example, maybe I have something I feel important to share with the world but I am not a very good writer. If AI can help me express my own ideas more clearly and clean up my grammar, that to me is a great use of AI. On the contrary, letting AI just churn out articles wholesale to me would be an abus…

Some things that may seem simple may actually be the cause of some people's demise.

Re: Why I'm leaving Medium: AI policy

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Post by ziddoap » Wed, Oct 02, 2024, 3:01 PM UTC

>Unlike many, I don’t sit on the fence. I hate it with a passion. I think it’s an affront to humanity and will ultimately cause our downfall. If an article uses AI, even just for header images, I don’t read it.

This seems just as silly of a take as the fervent supporters of sticking AI everywhere.

AI helps in some areas (e.g. assisting medical diagnoses) and is shitty in others (e.g. spam content).

I wonder if the author would refuse to receive a diagnosis from a doctor if the diagnosis was AI-assisted?