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The flood of AI generated content is already underway and the models keep improving. If our ability to identify AI content is 50% today, I would expect it to be

The flood of AI generated content is already underway and the models keep improving. If our ability to identify AI content is 50% today, I would expect it to be much lower in coming years as people get better at using AI tools and models improve. This feels vaguely apocalyptic. Like the internet I've known since the late 90s is going away completely and will never come back. Tools from that era - forums, comment systems, search engines, email, etc. - are ill prepared to deal with the flood of generated content and will have to be replaced with... something.

dandellion 4y ago
> Like the internet I've known since the late 90s is going away completely and will never come back. I think that has been gone for a while, and the "current" version of the internet that we've had for the past 5-10 years will be gone soon too. I miss when we didn't have to be available 100% of the time, you'd get home and check if anyone left a recorded message instead, but on the other hand it's amazing when you need to meet someone and you can just share your location with your smartphone. I'm sure we'll miss some things, but I'm also really curious about the future.
- AlexandrB 4y ago
  I think the "old" internet still exists in pockets here and there if you know where to look. In particular, reddit still feels very "old internet" - and some popular fora from that era are still around as well. A lot of the "action" has certainly moved to social media and video though. What's scary is that the social media era is marked, in my mind, by increased commercial mediation of human interactions. Social media companies inserted themselves into processes like looking for a job (LinkedIn) and dating (Tinder) then proceeded to manipulate the dynamics of these interactions for revenue generation. Once AI use becomes ubiquitous, how are AI companies going to manipulate these systems to squeeze revenues from their users? Everything in tech seems to trend towards "free and ad-supported", so will we see "positive brand messages" inserted into our writing when we ask ChatGPT for help in the future?
13years 4y ago
We are going to be drowning in a sea of autogenerated noise. I think the early excitement is going to fade into a bit of frustration and misery. It is very difficult to reason about the future as it becomes even more unpredictable each day. Emotional well being requires some semblance of stability for people to plan and reflect about their lives. I've spent many hours contemplating how this is going to shape society and the outlook is very concerning. My much deeper thought explorations - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things
asdff 4y ago
The way I see it, is there has to be demand to target something with content. What is the business case of e.g. using an ai model to comment in a niche forum? If there was any case, you would already see people using cruder models or even content farms to generate content in these niche forums. You do see this with sites like reddit already, and even potentially here, in instances where there is a business case (I'll put politics/sentiment influencing under that business umbrella). In short, the apocalypse you are worry about already happened before chatgpt. The 90s internet went away as soon as various slimy individuals realized how many eyeballs are on it and what that means for moneymaking opportunities.

dandellion 4y ago

> Like the internet I've known since the late 90s is going away completely and will never come back. I think that has been gone for a while, and the "current" version of the internet that we've had for the past 5-10 years will be gone soon too. I miss when we didn't have to be available 100% of the time, you'd get home and check if anyone left a recorded message instead, but on the other hand it's amazing when you need to meet someone and you can just share your location with your smartphone. I'm sure we'll miss some things, but I'm also really curious about the future.

AlexandrB 4y ago
I think the "old" internet still exists in pockets here and there if you know where to look. In particular, reddit still feels very "old internet" - and some popular fora from that era are still around as well. A lot of the "action" has certainly moved to social media and video though. What's scary is that the social media era is marked, in my mind, by increased commercial mediation of human interactions. Social media companies inserted themselves into processes like looking for a job (LinkedIn) and dating (Tinder) then proceeded to manipulate the dynamics of these interactions for revenue generation. Once AI use becomes ubiquitous, how are AI companies going to manipulate these systems to squeeze revenues from their users? Everything in tech seems to trend towards "free and ad-supported", so will we see "positive brand messages" inserted into our writing when we ask ChatGPT for help in the future?

13years 4y ago

We are going to be drowning in a sea of autogenerated noise. I think the early excitement is going to fade into a bit of frustration and misery. It is very difficult to reason about the future as it becomes even more unpredictable each day. Emotional well being requires some semblance of stability for people to plan and reflect about their lives. I've spent many hours contemplating how this is going to shape society and the outlook is very concerning. My much deeper thought explorations - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-end-to-all-things

asdff 4y ago

The way I see it, is there has to be demand to target something with content. What is the business case of e.g. using an ai model to comment in a niche forum? If there was any case, you would already see people using cruder models or even content farms to generate content in these niche forums. You do see this with sites like reddit already, and even potentially here, in instances where there is a business case (I'll put politics/sentiment influencing under that business umbrella). In short, the apocalypse you are worry about already happened before chatgpt. The 90s internet went away as soon as various slimy individuals realized how many eyeballs are on it and what that means for moneymaking opportunities.