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"And like the barrier of quality is so fucking low for that stuff, nobody will care if there's weird fingers here and there, minor grammatical errors or even if

"And like the barrier of quality is so fucking low for that stuff, nobody will care if there's weird fingers here and there, minor grammatical errors or even if you use really old school text to speech". A while ago, I was looking for something gardening related. Stumbled onto an article that read like a mix of: written by an Indian person (no offense!) with poor grasp of English, copypasta from Wikipedia or wherever, and repeated 3, 4, 5 times with different wordings. Whole site was like that. I'd think "link farm" as description wouldn't be too far off the mark. But you know what? It did show up in search results when searching the web. And while the content was crap, re-worded & redundancies removed it kinda answered what I searched for. Would surely not be the 1st visitor whom this applied to. And probably some tracking info was collected & sold as result of me reading that page. No doubt there's countless such sites out there. And AI will easily replace most humans involved in its creation. So I'm with you there: AI will EAT the low-bar-to-entry part of web content for breakfast. Higher up the stack? We'll see.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago
Oh yeah. Like AI content just barely clears the bar for "good enough" and tons, tons, TONS of the internet absolutely RUNS on "good enough." AI as it exists now is already a perfect and I do mean PERFECT tool if you want to create just reams upon reams of spam. And many websites and services keep their barriers low specifically to attract spammers. And either the spammers or the websites themselves can now generate spam content at hither to only DREAMED OF scales. Mind you, this is going to make our already barely usable internet utterly INTOLERABLY clogged with repetitive, derivative, bottom of the barrel content... but we've been trending towards that anyway. AI is just going to slam it's foot on the gas pedal. The value of internet advertising is about to crater again and I don't think it ever fully recovered from it's last cratering.

ToucanLoucan 3y ago

Oh yeah. Like AI content just barely clears the bar for "good enough" and tons, tons, TONS of the internet absolutely RUNS on "good enough." AI as it exists now is already a perfect and I do mean PERFECT tool if you want to create just reams upon reams of spam. And many websites and services keep their barriers low specifically to attract spammers. And either the spammers or the websites themselves can now generate spam content at hither to only DREAMED OF scales. Mind you, this is going to make our already barely usable internet utterly INTOLERABLY clogged with repetitive, derivative, bottom of the barrel content... but we've been trending towards that anyway. AI is just going to slam it's foot on the gas pedal. The value of internet advertising is about to crater again and I don't think it ever fully recovered from it's last cratering.