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Nearly all of the Google images results for "baby peacock" are AI generated

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Post by stonethrowaway »

lsy wrote: post #332

This was probably always the likely outcome of an internet economy that revolves around the production and monetization of "content". We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of greater amounts of content against which to show advertisements. Because money is up for grabs, producing cont…

“Content” is the advertising term for whatever fills the space between the ads.

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Post by grugagag »

lsy wrote: post #332

This was probably always the likely outcome of an internet economy that revolves around the production and monetization of "content". We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of greater amounts of content against which to show advertisements. Because money is up for grabs, producing cont…

Human curation is possible in an open system, but when you have a few large silos this algorithmic efficiency is put to use and we can observe the result. But I agree and hope people will lose interest and stop consuming trash. The gamble on the other side is that people will get used to poorer and poorer algo served content and the industry will continue squeeze profit out by any means necessary and indefinately. By looking at the history of cable television it appears there is a breaking point.

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Post by juunpp »

stonethrowaway wrote: post #328

In the near future, certain talking points we wish to discuss won’t be allowed by the downvote/flagging mafia, so we’ll link to Reddit instead while proclaiming how HN is so much better than those plebs over there.

Wasn't Reddit run by the CIA at this point?

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Post by notyourwork »

spaceribs wrote: post #339
lsy wrote: post #332

This was probably always the likely outcome of an internet economy that revolves around the production and monetization of "content". We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of greater amounts of content against which to show advertisements. Because money is up for grabs, producing cont…

There isn't, because human trust can barely scale past 100 people, much less the entire internet. I think humans will recede into the tribes we were always built to understand and be a part of. Private group chats are far more popular and ubiquitous than we give them credit for, and I only see that accelerating in this climate.

Private chats which effectively become echo chambers further dividing an already divided society is what I foresee.

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Post by ratedgene »

This is why Google took down its cached results. It's going to horde pre-LLM internet data. Perhaps sell it but I doubt it.

Our best bet is to have scraped all that data, and give you a temporal parameter to search, like:

+"Sponge bob" year:2012

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Post by joshdavham »

I'm actually a bit excited by this problem, believe it or not.

Like what solutions are we gonna come up with to solve it? Is the human side of the internet (however we create it) going to become more pure? Perhaps in discovering ways to avoid low quality AI content, we'll also find ways to escape from destructive recommender systems and monetized advertisements as well. Strange as it sounds, solving this problem could lead us to a much brighter future!

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Post by grugagag »

spaceribs wrote: post #339
lsy wrote: post #332

This was probably always the likely outcome of an internet economy that revolves around the production and monetization of "content". We started by putting advertisements on existing content, then moved to social networking and social media, which was essentially an engine for crowdsourcing the production of greater amounts of content against which to show advertisements. Because money is up for grabs, producing cont…

There isn't, because human trust can barely scale past 100 people, much less the entire internet. I think humans will recede into the tribes we were always built to understand and be a part of. Private group chats are far more popular and ubiquitous than we give them credit for, and I only see that accelerating in this climate.

Im not sure all private chat groups are really private. Maybe some are but can’t help thinking the industry isn’t at least running AI on private chats and summarize what people are talking about.

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Post by jeffbee »

happytoexplain wrote: post #337
jeffbee wrote: post #330

A "baby peacock" is not a thing, so I honestly don't see the search quality issue here. The text "baby peacock" is associated with these fabricated images.

There's no practicality to being so pedantic.

Have you ever encountered the extremely large contingent of HN commenters who claim to prefer that Google interpret their search literally, exactly, and at face value? Wouldn't they be howling mad if Google silently adjusted the core concept of your search from "baby peacock" to "peafowl chick"?

In any case the web and Google's index of it is crowdsourced. If the web associates this image and that phrase, what are they supposed to do about it?

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Post by emmelaich »

happytoexplain wrote: post #337
jeffbee wrote: post #330

A "baby peacock" is not a thing, so I honestly don't see the search quality issue here. The text "baby peacock" is associated with these fabricated images.

There's no practicality to being so pedantic.

There is though; if unusual word combinations are correlated with AI imagery.

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Post by juunpp »

davesmylie wrote: post #331
silisili wrote: post #324

Fitting that this is a copy paste submission taken from another source (linked in dupe comments), likely by a bot based on post history. The computers are turning on each other.

We can only hope they consume each other in some kind of survival-of-the-fittest type scenario, and when all is said and done, we can turn the last one off and set the clock back to 2015 and try again.

2015 is peak humanity for you or something? We had good EDM back then, but that's pretty much it.
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