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GPT might be an information virus (2023)

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Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like most progress, it made some things easier ( and some things worse as a result ). What I do find particularly fascinating is that it is doing that even in professions that should know better ( lawyers, doctors ). That my boss uses it is no surprise me though. I always suspected he never really read my emails.

People want AI lawyers and they really invented AI judges.

Usually judges start out as lawyers

Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

#64
Alternatively stated:

> The only explanation is that something has coded nonsense in a way that poses as a useful message; only after wasting time and effort does the deception becomes apparent. The signal functions to consume the resources of a recipient for zero payoff and reduced fitness. The signal is a virus.

> Viruses do not arise from kin, symbionts, or other allies.

> The signal is an attack.

―Blindsight, by Peter Watts

Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the thought the other day that one of the most valuable things a human-driven website could offer would be a webring linking to other human-driven websites

I'm a fan of bringing back Web Rings. Perhaps a site could kick off where people proposed sites for Web Rings, edited them. The sites in question could somehow adopt them — perhaps by directly pulling from the Web Ring site. And while we're at it, no reason for the Web "Ring" not to occasionally branch, bifurcate, and even rejoin threads from time to time. It need not be a simple linked list who's tail points back to…

Web rings are a thing I've been thinking about a bit. Anyone know any good ones? There are a couple I reached out to for one of the projects I'm working on, to get my site on them, but I never got responses. There are also some webrings I've come across that have died or been retired. :(

Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

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We're going to have to go in the opposite direction and rely on directories or lists of verified human-made/accurate content. It will be like the old days of yahoo and web-indexes all over again.

I feel like SEO trash has made this a must have for me for the past few years already. If it’s not stack overflow, Reddit, or stack exchange, I’m wasting my time

Or MDN, which is yet another site that seems to be constantly ripped off by parasitic AI-generated SEO sites...

Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

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post #8

We're going to have to go in the opposite direction and rely on directories or lists of verified human-made/accurate content. It will be like the old days of yahoo and web-indexes all over again.

(To clarify, I'm not suggesting this is necessarily a bad thing)

Re: GPT might be an information virus (2023)

#70
post #8

We're going to have to go in the opposite direction and rely on directories or lists of verified human-made/accurate content. It will be like the old days of yahoo and web-indexes all over again.

I had the thought the other day that one of the most valuable things a human-driven website could offer would be a webring linking to other human-driven websites

That's something I really enjoy about web 1.0: links pages. We need to bring back the days when every site had a giant list of links to other sites. I don't care if half of them end up as dead links. This is part of what made the web fun. You'd come across a site, see what it had to offer, and then you'd check the links page and find five, ten, or 20 other sites offering similar things. No need for algorithms tracking your every move to recommend things to you... the content itself would do that.
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