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I agree with you from the content consumer perspective. However, it’s going to make the curation part quite a bit harder. There is a lot of “garbage smell” tha

I agree with you from the content consumer perspective. However, it’s going to make the curation part quite a bit harder. There is a lot of “garbage smell” that you learn when sifting through content as a curator. However unfair it is, there are a lot of cues in language sloppiness, poor structure, etc that content curators use as a first pass filter. People that have something meaningful to say usually put some effort into it and it shows in the form of good structure, visual aids, etc. AI generated content will be immune to that because it’s amazing at matching the pattern of high value content. Life for curators is about to get a lot worse.

qzw 4y ago
I think the ideas is to use AI for curation and discovery, but we’ll have to see whether AI can successfully distinguish truly high quality content from those that only appear high quality. I find it hard to imagine how that would work without an actual understanding of the content, but I’m open to being surprised.
- pixl97 4y ago
  >but we’ll have to see whether AI can successfully distinguish truly high quality content from those that only appear high quality Heh, a new version of the Chinese Room problem.
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majormajor 4y ago
> AI generated content will be immune to that because it’s amazing at matching the pattern of high value content. Life for curators is about to get a lot worse. I think you'll see that pattern change more quickly. Nothing makes perception of something go from "high quality" to "low quality" like mass production and cheap ubiquity.
- danuker 4y ago
  Funnily enough, models tend to spit output similar to the most prevalent examples which they've been trained on. So, cheap ubiquity.
nojs 4y ago
But is this really a bad thing? There are bad writers with good ideas, unknown because they can’t write well. And writing well doesn’t necessarily correlate with high quality ideas (you just think they are high quality when you read them).
- pixl97 4y ago
  I think the issue here is we are defining high quality like a 'like' button. One dimension isn't going to work here. Quality is a multiaccess statistic. Access: Could be in the best thing in the universe, but if I can't access it, well it's useless. Translational: Is this a conversion to a new language that is accurate? Written prose: Does it use an appropriate language and set of words for its intended audience? Ideal quality: Is this presenting new ideas? Is it presenting old idea in a better or more consistent way?
- danuker 4y ago
  In fact, bad writers with good ideas might benefit tremendously from AI tools.

qzw 4y ago

I think the ideas is to use AI for curation and discovery, but we’ll have to see whether AI can successfully distinguish truly high quality content from those that only appear high quality. I find it hard to imagine how that would work without an actual understanding of the content, but I’m open to being surprised.

pixl97 4y ago
>but we’ll have to see whether AI can successfully distinguish truly high quality content from those that only appear high quality Heh, a new version of the Chinese Room problem.
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majormajor 4y ago

> AI generated content will be immune to that because it’s amazing at matching the pattern of high value content. Life for curators is about to get a lot worse. I think you'll see that pattern change more quickly. Nothing makes perception of something go from "high quality" to "low quality" like mass production and cheap ubiquity.

danuker 4y ago
Funnily enough, models tend to spit output similar to the most prevalent examples which they've been trained on. So, cheap ubiquity.

nojs 4y ago

But is this really a bad thing? There are bad writers with good ideas, unknown because they can’t write well. And writing well doesn’t necessarily correlate with high quality ideas (you just think they are high quality when you read them).

pixl97 4y ago
I think the issue here is we are defining high quality like a 'like' button. One dimension isn't going to work here. Quality is a multiaccess statistic. Access: Could be in the best thing in the universe, but if I can't access it, well it's useless. Translational: Is this a conversion to a new language that is accurate? Written prose: Does it use an appropriate language and set of words for its intended audience? Ideal quality: Is this presenting new ideas? Is it presenting old idea in a better or more consistent way?
danuker 4y ago
In fact, bad writers with good ideas might benefit tremendously from AI tools.