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People seem to have short memories. We've been here before. Not with AI but with low-cost content farms eg Demand Media, Associated Content, Mahalo. Most of th
by jmyeet 4y ago
People seem to have short memories. We've been here before.
Not with AI but with low-cost content farms eg Demand Media, Associated Content, Mahalo. Most of these died. A few survive (eg Wikihow). People recognize it for what it is: noise. Ultimately, search enginees do as well and this SEO-optimized drivel gets downranked into non-existence.
ChatGPT can write as many articles as you like but they have to have a point, over overarching narrative. A lot of people at content farms will get replaced by AI but that's just automation. AI tools like this will magnify the abilities of a person to be able to produce more content just like any other form of automation.
As for content creators, 95%+ of these already earn little to nothing from their activities. They're hoping to get their big break. AI won't really change that making a living as a content creator has always been a low-probability endeavour.
- XorNot 4y agoThe more important point is that people react to things happening, they don't just sit there and take it. A rise in automated content is going to be countered by the development of AI explorers who's sole role is to establish data provenance (this is what Google should be doing but isn't). No one wants a ChatGPT which blindly trusts the internet, they want one which will backtrack sources during it's training to determine if they're true - this is likely to be the next innovation from OpenAI anyway, since ChatGPTs value as an assistant is based on it's ability to provide accurate information to start with (and not be self-trained on it's own ideas).