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Stop guys, stop. Be young in your mind. Be young. How are young people interpreting this? "Oh wow, I can get it to write or help edit essays" "I can use it as something to bounce ideas off of" "I can use it to take ideas from my head into the digital realm." Stop being old people.
The problem for Google is that their advertisers love generated content.
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Or, the singularity.
the singularity implies reaching a point where the AI’s improvement becomes self sustaining. this is the AI choking itself to death with bad training data.
(heh - checking that link Charlie Stross just posted (Jan 31) a blog post: "An AI app walks into a writers room")
Anyways the link I was actually after ... give https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler... a read and consider the "what happens in the later parts of the book."
I just want to make a twitch stream and have hundreds of gpt bots as audience. With enough energy you can pretty much make yourself an influencer now.
No offense but in a world that includes video why will advertisers pay for text? This article is less thought-out than clickbait ads
Secondly because advertisement is about trust. For a while, the ads on TV where all the rage because, if it's on TV then it's a proper brand. If in the short term future, like I postulate, the web becomes unreadable SEO filled trash, and people access it via Chat-GPT like technologies, then there will be an element of trust between the bot and the user. And that trust can be exploited, more or less subtly.
So why would they not take advantage of it?
An endless loop of AI generated content that gets posted to the web as original human generated content, with LLMs getting re-trained on this content and spitting out more content that also gets re-posted, resulting in a cesspool of BS masquerading as organic knowledge. I'm old enough to remember when Google provided meaningful search results rather than just SEO spam, the problem is about to get an order of magnitud…
The worst part about this is that if there is another set of bots that tries to generate engagement, then the training data isn't coming from humans either. You have one set of actors spamming. And another set of actors upvoting stuff, predominantly their own but maybe also other random posts. So the resulting posts don't necessarily even cater to humans. It will be real online hellscape.
The hard part will be to stand out, and to create things that AI can't easily reproduce, such as linking content to a service.
I think it's a good news for actual high quality original creator: they will rise to the sun.
Imagine a world where the only content you see is from publishers that you trust, and that your friends trust, and their friends, to maybe 4 or 5 hops or so, and the feed was weighted by how much they are trusted by your particular social graph. If you start seeing spammy content, you downvote it, and your trust level from that part of your social graph drops, and they are less likely to be able to publish things tha…
That's what I've been feeling. Web3 is the organic web. Where we add back weight to transactions and build a noise threshold that drowns the spammers and SEOs. I always envisioned it requiring some sort of micropayments or government-issued web identity certificates. Everyone complaining about bubbles needs to realize that echo chambers are another issue entirely. Inorganic and organic content both create bubbles. We…