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That'll change once 90% of posts on Reddit are bot posts. It's already happening...

echelon 3y ago
Counter point: the whole internet can be distilled into an LLM and shared in a super condensed format. Both of these things will happen (old web getting spammed, old web being distilled and crystalized), and the future will be weird and unpredictable to us now.
- throwaway290 3y ago
  > the whole internet can be distilled into an LLM and shared in a super condensed format > the future will be weird and unpredictable to us now I'm going to play devil's advocate for those people who always drop by saying LLM is pretty much like a human and human is pretty much like an LLM anyway, and say it would be no different to now
  - cookieperson 3y ago
    Except bots aren't like humans at all. They have no life experience. It's basically a text interface to a dictionary. A company can pay 100000 bots to spam your favorite messaging board with half baked propaganda, hate and advertisements. A human doesn't have that bandwidth, motivation, or interest. An internet saturated by bots is like reading reviews on Amazon without pictures. Pointless, intentionally misleading, and often confidently wrong.
    - throwaway290 3y ago
      Yep. I don't know how enthusiasts manage to say human is the same as AI and also say that everything will certainly change for sure because of AI, they should pick one...
    - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
      Dead Internet Theory is terrifying, honestly
      - anileated 3y ago
        You can get your Internet back alive if you simply sacrifice your retina scans and all other biometrics that prove your humanity. There may be a reason OpenAI and Worldcoin have the same founder: profit from ruining a nice thing, then profit from saving it (via bringing it back from the dead as a zombie).
- cookieperson 3y ago
  If you completely ignore the fact that many humans congregate on the internet to be social with other humans then sure. There's a lot of opinions, art, ideas, jokes, and meaningful life long connections that happen because of the internet. In my mind that was it's only real utility. Sure search engines are good for research, and shopping. But community, talking to people with life experience in an area of interest have changed who I am as a person. Condensing the internet into a binary, is effectively meaningless to me unless I end up on a remote island with enough battery power to look up edible plants and not internet connection...
naveen99 3y ago
Not all bots are created equal.
fineIllregister 3y ago
I think a ton of reddit is already bots. But usually they copy comments word-for-word. Also, I think voting and moderation will upvote and downvote the AI generated comments in such a way that they don't poison Redditch as a training data source.

Counter point: the whole internet can be distilled into an LLM and shared in a super condensed format. Both of these things will happen (old web getting spammed, old web being distilled and crystalized), and the future will be weird and unpredictable to us now.

throwaway290 3y ago
> the whole internet can be distilled into an LLM and shared in a super condensed format > the future will be weird and unpredictable to us now I'm going to play devil's advocate for those people who always drop by saying LLM is pretty much like a human and human is pretty much like an LLM anyway, and say it would be no different to now
- cookieperson 3y ago
  Except bots aren't like humans at all. They have no life experience. It's basically a text interface to a dictionary. A company can pay 100000 bots to spam your favorite messaging board with half baked propaganda, hate and advertisements. A human doesn't have that bandwidth, motivation, or interest. An internet saturated by bots is like reading reviews on Amazon without pictures. Pointless, intentionally misleading, and often confidently wrong.
  - throwaway290 3y ago
    Yep. I don't know how enthusiasts manage to say human is the same as AI and also say that everything will certainly change for sure because of AI, they should pick one...
  - tourmalinetaco 3y ago
    Dead Internet Theory is terrifying, honestly
    - anileated 3y ago
      You can get your Internet back alive if you simply sacrifice your retina scans and all other biometrics that prove your humanity. There may be a reason OpenAI and Worldcoin have the same founder: profit from ruining a nice thing, then profit from saving it (via bringing it back from the dead as a zombie).
cookieperson 3y ago
If you completely ignore the fact that many humans congregate on the internet to be social with other humans then sure. There's a lot of opinions, art, ideas, jokes, and meaningful life long connections that happen because of the internet. In my mind that was it's only real utility. Sure search engines are good for research, and shopping. But community, talking to people with life experience in an area of interest have changed who I am as a person. Condensing the internet into a binary, is effectively meaningless to me unless I end up on a remote island with enough battery power to look up edible plants and not internet connection...

naveen99 3y ago

Not all bots are created equal.

fineIllregister 3y ago

I think a ton of reddit is already bots. But usually they copy comments word-for-word. Also, I think voting and moderation will upvote and downvote the AI generated comments in such a way that they don't poison Redditch as a training data source.