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0 pointsasdff2mo ago0 comments

Eventually it won’t matter. People will forget what it was like to have authentic content. They’d look at it like how we might view monks in the middle ages copying the bible a hundred times by hand.

Even today people don’t even trust themselves to write an email. You see people on HN and reddit openly admitting they used ai to help make their post because they believe they cannot write. The march to illiteracy and ignorance is already taking foot.

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falloutx2mo ago

> People will forget what it was like to have authentic content.

This is already true. Most people on the internet are stuck in tiktok loop anyway. Even chatgpt would struggle to get them. By the time LLMs get good enough, a lot of people who were willing to pay for them would have lost their jobs and they would not be paying for something that costed them their job, many will quit the internet fully. We are looking at value being driven out of internet at a grand scale.

hyperadvanced2mo ago

This is a plain fact. The amount of obviously GPT’d text out there is so breathtaking. The good news is that all of this shit people are squeezing out of GPT is really reinvigorating my desire to work on novel creative projects.

In nearly every form of entertainment over the past 2 years, quality has degraded rapidly, to the point where most Reddit threads really aren’t worth reading - they’re all chock full of It’s Not X It’s Y! Most movies are heavily re-explained plots and reboots of old IP, CGI, dialogue glued on after the fact. Pop music has been on life support for 10 or 20 years, and that was before anyone could AI generate whatever derivative sonic slop they wanted to create. Books and publishers are holding strong to avoid GPT, but the desire for Dragon smut will ultimately overwhelm any aesthete’s preference for originality.

pixl972mo ago

>In nearly every form of entertainment over the past 2 years

I mean, it really was on a huge downward trend before two years ago, and you hit on much of that.

Social media and the online advertising age had really destroyed a lot of entertainment well before AI was an issue. Bot-like humans would just copy and mish-mash existing media poorly and attempt to gather the ad dollars for themselves.

Honestly a lot of the enjoyable content I watch these days is from individuals/groups that aren't chasing ad views, but doing more 'donation begging' from their own audience which means they must maintain some level of quality for continued patronage.

One particular problem we seem to have is that we see AI as 'the problem' and not just one issue in a problematic system. Why doesn't Reddit do anything about crap posts and content? They make money off of convincing advertisers that lots of views happen on their site and they should sell ads. Why doesn't Google improve their services? They are a near monopoly in online advertising and service improvement for the end user doesn't increase their revenue.

It's just a system where one group is trying to extract wealth from Google/Facebook whereas Google/Facebook have nearly perfected extracting wealth from you.

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