Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers

Post by nradov » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 12:10 AM UTC

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I can relate. Might not be exactly this, but it makes me feel similar to why people hate advertising. Which I believe is, people don't like feeling lied-to, and everyone knows that marketers are trying to get in your head to manipulate you into manufacturing desire or stoking insecurity, all for the purposes of getting you to buy their products. I think people like organic word-of-mouth, but on the flipside, hate whe…

This type of behavior will only serve to cheapen content across the board. At this point, even the word "content" betrays the emptiness of it all - people don't pay for bags and boxes of "content" do they? AI "content" is a nothing-burger. It is inherently devoid of "value" and seems like a last-ditch effort to squeegee the remaining drops of attention off of everyone's eyeballs without actually investing in genuine…

Post by deebosong » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 1:07 AM UTC

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This type of behavior will only serve to cheapen content across the board. At this point, even the word "content" betrays the emptiness of it all - people don't pay for bags and boxes of "content" do they? AI "content" is a nothing-burger. It is inherently devoid of "value" and seems like a last-ditch effort to squeegee the remaining drops of attention off of everyone's eyeballs without actually investing in genuine…

This might be naive, but I kind of hope that AI content spam will destroy the advertising supported web.

Post by orbital-decay » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 2:15 AM UTC

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

This was a good meme a year ago but these days it’s out of date. Popular image AIs like Midjourney and Dall-E now do accurate hands the vast majority of the time.

Post by Muehe » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 3:05 AM UTC

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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.

Post by soco » Tue, Nov 28, 2023, 10:39 AM UTC

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I'd be very, very curious to hear viable alternatives to ad supported models, that aren't based on how major companies have been doing it for the past 20 years (or longer?), where they make it free, then sneak in subscriptions, then over time, start increasing subscription costs. I feel like it's not just the companies, but consumers/ audiences don't want to pay for most internet services unless it's something like i…

Why do we need an alternative?