without having read it yet, I'm going to say I'm already prone to thinking certain kinds of blog writing are gpt3 and it's insidious and enormously destructive

without having read it yet, I'm going to say I'm already prone to thinking certain kinds of blog writing are gpt3 and it's insidious and enormously destructive of what's left of the human ecosystem on the web that we have to seriously ask that question. What may happen is that everyone begins to realize that the shit they read every day is pointless garbage that doesn't actually pertain to them at all. Case in point: I crossed the border into Canada this week and woke up one morning with some extra time for google news doom scrolling before I got out of bed. It took about halfway through the scroll to realize I was logged out and that all the crime and politics headlines I was reading were about things that had happened in Canada. Which meant nothing to me and which I would never have heard about otherwise. (And yet there was a whole different galaxy of stories that had clearly been going on for some time). This was like in the 80s when you'd intentionally turn on the local TV news in your hotel room to see local broadcasters wherever you were visiting, except it wasn't intentional. And yet I realized my brain could not give two fucks before coffee if these stories had been generated by an AI or they were irrelevantly Canadian, I just needed to doom scroll some shit before breakfast. But after that I stopped reading the news and just enjoyed being in a country where nothing much happens. So my prediction is that the moment people realize they're reading AI-generated news, they'll just tune out completely. It would be like suddenly realizing you've been listening to CBC.