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Yeah, it's kind of ironic that there's all this concern that LLMs will automate content to an extent that there'll be an unfathomable amount of text material on
by SilverBirch 4y ago
Yeah, it's kind of ironic that there's all this concern that LLMs will automate content to an extent that there'll be an unfathomable amount of text material on the internet that it'll be impossible to distinguish but in a way... it kind of already happened with crypto. There emerged a class of people who were financially incentivized to just constantly pump out bullshit about crypto- fake projects, fake coins, fake nfts, fake metaverses, all this crud, and because there was nothing underlying it it just raised the noise floor incredibly. Well now crypto is mostly dead and those same people have moved onto noisily bullshitting about AI.
There's genuinely some amazing stuff happening, but it's being damaged by a class of morons who want to run to the front of the crowd and shout "follow me!". The important thing is to just focus on the level-headed reporting of what's really going on - places like Hard Fork, TechMeme, and Pivot are doing great thoughtful reporting on what actually matters. It's amazing to see the contrast between All-In's hosts frothily making absurdly overstated claims based on some research paper that was just published, and then you hear about the same research from actual tech reporters and guess what... you get to actually find out about the research was and what they found rather than hear some no-knowthing gleefully spew about how he's going to make the entire middle class unemployed and sit on his pile of money like a fictional dragon.