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Ask HN: Is GPT-3 ruining the internet or is it just me?
- VoodooJuJu 5y agoCan you elaborate?
- 4monthsaway 5y agoI'm just getting a more general evolving sense that the writing/information quality of top results for random topics on Google are diminishing. Probably just in my own little echo-chamber I suppose, thought it might be interesting to hear outside perspectives
- GuestHNUser 5y agoNot sure where you are getting the connection to GPT-3, but I think that sentiment around dismissing quality of Google results and the web at large are pretty common among HN users. I think it is just harder to find fun / small websites and forums than it used to be. A lot of communities are moving to platforms like discord which are not discoverable or able to be navigated easily from a web browser. As for small websites and blogs, I think they still exist, they just seemed to get passed around less often than news articles. I bet that is in part because there are simply less small websites and blogs to be shared than the sheer volume of news articles that come out every hour.
- 4monthsaway 5y agoInteresting points, I hadn't thought of the discord-type thing before. I guess my premise is closer to the last point you made, recently found out there's massive networks of 'news' websites all using GPT-3 to produce, well, basically whoever their funders want them to produce. The one in particular had something like 1300 websites within 1 network all owned by 1 small company, with 1 real article to every 100 generated ones. And they were all the exact same positions on highly political stuff. Made me sigh. Thanks for your feedback