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Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Post by gosub100 »

bdcravens wrote: post #17
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kind of, because now 1 person can do the job of hundreds, or thousands, and now you'd either have to: 1. Invent new (bullshit) jobs for the thousands to do 2. Pay those thousands money to live (basic income) 3. Send them off to die, fighting for you and the 1 person commanding the AI, in the next major armed conflict

They could also find work doing something more productive. This is the same challenge that humanity has faced since the invention of the wheel.

Some of the writers may have been trying to work up to better jobs.

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Post by qrohlf »

gosub100 wrote: post #28
qrohlf wrote: post #19

I know some folks who are doing this in the food blogging space, see https://tastytango.blog/ It's hard to pin down exactly what I find so unsettling about the practice – it's almost like the uncanny valley, but for written content that apes human expression instead of imagery?

The opposite would be great: a web crawler that digests (pardon the pun) a 5mb web page (or 20m long-winded video) on how to cook a meal and condenses it into just the relevant steps and photos.

https://mela.recipes/ does this with its built-in browser/parser thing (and it has a bunch more incredibly useful stuff).

Highly recommended, it's from Silvio Rizzi of "Reeder" fame so it's a one-time purchase built with extreme care by a solo dev with excellent product instincts. Huge fan of his work, this kind of high-craftsmanship software is just so pleasant to use.

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Post by rhcom2 »

xrd wrote: post #14

For years, ESPN has put machine generated predictions of upcoming games. https://www.espn.com/nba/preview/_/gameId/401584885 "The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar." Example paragraph: "The two teams match up for the second time this season. The Nuggets defeated the Clippers 111-108 in their last meeting on Nov. 15. Jokic led the Nuggets with 32 poin…

Yahoo fantasy football does this with each weekly head to head matchup. They're clearly labeled as machine generated ("Powered by ChatGPT API") and add a little fun.

Re: Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

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Post by graphe »

isoprophlex wrote: post #24
Animats wrote: post #22

Will the Swimsuit Edition be generated with Stable Diffusion? It certainly could be. Go here.[1] Use prompt "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover." Under "Advanced", select model "ICantBelieveItsNotPhotography". Click Generate. [1] https://stable-diffusion.site/

I got a cover for a magazine called "SUORTS IRLERSTRED" and a baywatch-looking woman with extremely weird, lumpy abs

Much better than the real one. https://swimsuit.si.com/model-years/2023

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Post by ggpsv »

isoprophlex wrote: post #27
skilled wrote: post #3

This battle will not be won by anyone other than the people using these tools to their advantage to pump and dump. The genie is long out of the box now. Future iterations of LLMs will not get worse but better. And already now, something like GPT-4 easily bypasses human detection if the output is inherently controlled by a human. Bad AI content can be detected super easily. ChatGPT is limited by its system prompts and…

The internet has gone past the stage of enshittification. Everyone knows, or intuits, that the game is up. This is the end game, the Shit Squeeze, where the last drops of goodness are wrung by force from what once was something exciting... and the flames are being fanned by generative AI.

The game has been up for a while, this just takes into hyper-drive.

But don't forget, you _can_ opt out of this corporate and consumerist side of the internet. It's over when you're convinced that you cannot do so.

For me personally, this has made it easier to step away from places on the internet that had already started to go down the drain. It's as if the shitty part of internet finally consumes itself out of existence.

Instead, I now follow small personal blogs and niche forums where this is not an issue. Just people posting because they still believe in sharing and connecting, despite of generative AI.

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Post by karaterobot »

qrohlf wrote: post #19

I know some folks who are doing this in the food blogging space, see https://tastytango.blog/ It's hard to pin down exactly what I find so unsettling about the practice – it's almost like the uncanny valley, but for written content that apes human expression instead of imagery?

The unsettling thing about it is that it's a lie from front to back, intended to deceive people into believing there are real people sharing recipes, when the people don't exist and nobody has ever eaten the food.

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Post by rs999gti »

rchaud wrote: post #39

The doomsday clock for the fun parts of the internet is reaching midnight. This is what generative AI will be unleashing in droves as the software becomes more mature and eliminates the giveaway sentences and phrasing.

Just ask the robots to show you a picture of their hands. They still have not figured that out, yet...
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