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The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

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Re: The Internet Is Full of AI Dogshit

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Post by flyinghamster »

novagameco wrote: post #3

This is also known as the dead internet theory, which sounded a bit stupid before 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory > The dead Internet theory is an online conspiracy theory that asserts that the Internet now consists mainly of bot activity and automatically generated content that is manipulated by algorithmic curation, marginalizing organic human activity. Proponents of the theory believe thes…

I never really thought it was stupid, more that it was hyperbole - but very mild hyperbole with a solid basis in reality. The endless tide of email spam would be a good example where the theory rings true.

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Post by dartos »

tenebrisalietum wrote: post #2

> The internet has been broken in a fundamental way. It is no longer a repository of people communicating with people; increasingly, it is just a series of machines communicating with machines. I mean, it always has been on its lowest layers. The "is this incoming data from the Internet originated by a human being" problem hasn't really been solved, and is probably not truly solveable. It probably wasn't a good idea…

It doesn’t need to be solved before as most internet users could easily identify algorithmically generated stuff and stop spreading it, but not so anymore.

Maybe one day we’ll all be able to “smell” ai generate text easily, but we’re not there yet

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Post by theyeenzbeanz »

cranberryturkey wrote: post #6

ai going to make google results garbage.

Going to? It already has. I get about 50 articles for software fixes that have a lot of hot garbage in them before getting to the point. For example I had a discord issue and instead of laying out a fix, the “article” apparently needed a multi paragraph ChatGPT explanation of what discord is before even attempting to show remedies.

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Post by gorjusborg »

oceanplexian wrote: post #9
erellsworth wrote: post #4

I'm old enough to remember when the Internet was full of organic dog shit.

Humans are the original bullshit generator. AI is only doing what humans have been doing since forever.

Humans care about reputation.

Humans get tired.

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Post by Arubis »

gorjusborg wrote: post #16
oceanplexian wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Humans are the original bullshit generator. AI is only doing what humans have been doing since forever.

Humans care about reputation. Humans get tired.

Previously, these were marketing points _in favor of_ automation.
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