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Not as bad as the AI-generated articles showing up in search results. Some websites I get driven to make absolutely no sense, despite a lot of words being written about all kinds of topics.
I'm looking forward to the day when "certified human content" is a thing, and that's all search engines allow you to see.
I can't wait for that. I get the feeling it's gonna get real messy before we figure out solutions to all the problems caused by AI-generated content.
I mean yeah, there's already plenty of human-generated misinformation and shit, but it seems to me (not an expert) like ai is capable of fucking with society on a whole new scale.
The big difference is that high quality human generated content is often based on reputation, a history of quality content, and frequently reviewed by experts in the field (very common for medical articles).
But AI has none of that. It's 100% quantity over quality, and that's just internet pollution as far as I'm concerned.
We really do have to figure something out, though.
https://mashable.com/article/world-of-warcraft-wow-reddit-ai-glorbo
Reddit already tricked a bot into writing an entire article when they noticed a website was clearly scraping /r/wow
She couldn't be bothered to get a single screenshot of the article?
Maybe it's a bot lol
China is already using it to generate shorts on YouTube. I hope Google has the balls to invest in fighting it, but that company has been downhill lately.
China?
The whole of Pinterest, tiktok and Instagram are using it to make shorts.
TikTok is China. Literally owned and operated by the state.
Don't compare for profit corporations to a hostile militaristic dictatorship.
Not to defend China in any way, but its influence over the world is far more economic and profit-driven than militaristic. Often it's hard to separate China from for profit corporations simply due to how much those corporations rely on chinese industries.
A US-Based For Profit Corporation has some accountability.
A Hostile Dictatorship Military Op would gut you and take everything you own at a cost because they just love seeing you suffer, if they could get away with it en masse.
Look, I'm Latin American. If you are gonna tell me US is more trustworthy and less likely to attempt to undermine other countries and inflict inhumane conditions upon them, I'd suggest for you to read a bit more international history and all the dictatorships they have backed in other countries.
Do US corporations have any accountabilty? These days, looks like that only applies to their shareholders. I remember those leaks revealing that the US government has more access to internet company data than it lets on.
Still, I wouldn't want to live in China either. But as far as getting screwed by companies from other countries, I don't see much reason to trust one over the other. Any rights and protections that you may have do not apply to me.
All that considered, between Tiktok or Instagram? They are equally bad as far as I see.
Instagram isn't State Run. Instagram isn't funding a coup in the 1970s. If you had used Facebook as an example then maybe you'd have a great point, although I don't use their platforms either, tbh.
It just feels to me like people who use TikTok and compare it to lesser threats to human life are watering down evil for easy consumption. I feel very strongly about it and I would love for everyone to please fucking stop.
Technically TikTok is not actually state run either. But in both cases the governments in question can simply pressure the owners to submit to their demands.
If you don't use Facebook maybe you can speak out against it, but as far as watering down evil goes, no major technology company is innocent.
TikTok is a State Run Military Op in China, with a local branch in the USA to make their data collection easier and more profitable.
if you look up anything rooting or custom related, those sites seem to be half of what comes up
Yeah, a lot of repair sites come up with pages that have just hundreds of Q&A's, but often times they don't make sense or aren't even related to the topic! Once you realize how much time was wasted on these garbage sites, you don't even feel motivated to keep looking for answers.
The winning search engine will link to useful and relevant content, whether they are ai generated or not.
It's more likely that the winning search engine will be the one that generates the most ad revenue via clicks.
Eventually all content will just be AI generated on the fly. No need to keep dumb content on precious storage that could be used to increase model size.
Eventually all comments will be AI-generated too, carefully crafted to ensure humans follow a paid narrative.
They'll just make certification so expensive only the wealthy will qualify.
You'll never hear another perspective again.
Or, you know, we go back to the time when the news media had real gatekeepers and not just any random jackass could churn out some bullshit copy and broadcast it to the world, let alone have it get published by their local paper.
It's nice that the Internet has democratized access to a national or even global audience, but let's not pretend for a moment that it hasn't caused a ton of problems in the process such that now many people have no idea of what to believe while others believe whatever they want.
It's still pretty easy to tell the difference. You have to have a pretty low level of media literacy to not be able to easily spot it. Unfortunately we already know that most people don't have a clue when it comes to mass media, and even if they did, we also know that people tend to believe whatever reinforces their priors.
For now, just like it was easy to identify AI art by the fucked up hands for a few months before that was mostly ironed out. AI really doesn't need to get that much "smarter" to start fooling people in their native tongue, it just needs to be able to string the right words together more often. And there's a few billion guinea pigs out there to test on.