I don't know, to me this is just going to make real human, authentic content that much more valuable.
Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun
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Re: Chat GPT is the birth of the real Web 3.0, and it's not going to be fun
#202Earlier quoted context omitted.
You could call it: "AI Kessler syndrome". The internet becomes so full of hallucinating AI output that it becomes impossible to train the model.
Worse, perhaps. Kessler Syndrome will eventually resolve itself as junk falls out of orbit over time, or new methods for cleaning it up are developed. Information, once buried in noise, becomes unrecoverable without a source of known truth for correlation.
Curation is the answer. The more junk, the better off are the one curation for quality, relevancy and human interest.
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point. I was already concerned about people's reliance on Google's zero-click answers as the deepest level of inquiry before ChatGPT hit the scene. ChatGPT feels like a multiplier of this convenience factor, being also slightly more specific and generally more consistent.
There's also just that Google's search ranking doesn't work anymore. I searched "lowest temperatures in boston every year" and got some shit-looking MySpace-like website with a table of temperatures, hell knows where it got its data, instead of a link to the correct page on NOAA or something more authoritative.
This is a fun example;
First hit in DDG for that query is a trash site but at least the data is there…
https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/USA/MA/Boston/...
Versus trying to pull the data from NOAA;
https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/search
The way that the first site works the keywords into the intro text repeatedly to juice their rank is almost impressive. Can the search engines really not see that the page is garbage?
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's already pretty bad with Github/SO threads. Guys will scrape threads on GH/SO and repost them to their sites, usually with a ton of ads but the post ranks higher than the original thread so it will come up first when you google an error.
How could it rank higher tho? SO has a huge domain ranking. How an arbitrary website can compete with that? I always thought it’s the opposite and platforms like SO and Medium incentivise posting there exactly via their crazy domain ranking.
> How could it rank higher tho? SO has a huge domain ranking. How an arbitrary website can compete with that?
It's unclear, but they do. My guess would be that they're willing to do shadier SEO than SO will, and any that get caught just stand up more domains.
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#205Information wants to be wrong.
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#206I moderate a forum and a user recently started answer questions with links to his blog, where he made AI-generated pages of generated answers on the topics. The posts don't offer anything novel or personal to conversation, as they only repeat the most common talking points on the topic. Ugh.
This is a very hard problem, "who is the original author of a string of facts," "is that string of facts sound or was it altered," this is like the end of truth. I know that truth is relative but it's like there's no point in using the word truth anymore. Everything is just becoming a collection of words.
Yes. The user claims he wrote one of the posts but admits that AI wrote some others. The tone and style look identical.
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#207Imagine 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…
Trust is not transitive. My friends reshare all sort of crazy memes, and their friends are even worse. Just because you know someone doesn't mean they're good at reading the news or understanding what's going on in the world.
Trust decays exponentially with distance in the social graph, but it does not immediately fall to zero. People who you second-degree trust are more likely to be trustable than a random person, and then via that process of discovery you can choose to trust that person directly.
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#208Re: An electronic version of Tom Riddle's diary >“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
I came here searching for this comment :-) Expressed in terms of Harry Potter, I guess ChatGPT is kind of magical.
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#209I think we need a new HTML tag which should be placed around all AI-generated content.
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#210Yawn, another doomsday post because someone is scared of change...