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I think some people on HN are worried about stifling creativity. The vast, VAST majority of the AI-driven content is going to be gamed product reviews / adverti

I think some people on HN are worried about stifling creativity. The vast, VAST majority of the AI-driven content is going to be gamed product reviews / advertisements, as well as some political propaganda. It’s going to be a hellhole for usefulness.

nathanaldensr 3y ago
I think there are more categories than just that--e.g., kids videos.
andybak 3y ago
Yeah but that stuff was mostly pointless garbage before the advent of AI. Content farms, apps for endlessly generating variations of the same content, low wage and Mechanical Turk jobs etc etc. Maybe AI will speed up the process of making this stuff either ignored or unacceptable. Things gotta get worse before they get better...
- constantly 3y ago
  “The Top 10 X You NEED in CURRENT_YEAR” has been a ubiquitous article title when searching for reviews on literally anything for years. It will only get worse for sure.
  - mtmail 3y ago
    I've seen an AI generated "top 10 list Chrome extensions for $X" submitted to HN. Those didn't exist, I searched, those extensions were all made up. (The user is now blocked.)
- everdrive 3y ago
  That’s true, but I think there are few points of concern here. Currently, I can detect content farm garbage. Will I be able to when AI starts churning out videos? Volume is also a concern. If 10x more videos are AI trash, it functionally just becomes harder to find what you want. WRT propaganda, I think the past few years have proven that people are just absolutely terrible at resisting political manipulation. I don’t support censorship as a solution to this issue, but at the same time it seems impossible to imagine AI doing anything other than making this problem significantly worse. I also wonder how much worse AI will make the filter bubble phenomenon. I don’t just mean with regard to political extremism, but also when it comes to basic alienation from your peers. Too much homogenous culture wasn’t a good thing, but infinitely personalized culture is pretty alienating as well.
  - 6510 3y ago
    > Will I be able to when AI starts churning out videos? It is already full of it! If you are into bananas you type "bananas" in the box and a video comes out that is disturbingly watchable (but easy to spot with its "open eye" kind of typos and dull stockphotos) https://invideo.io/ai/ https://invideo.io/ai/
- kossTKR 3y ago
  AI's will capture viewtime so effectively that human creators channels will wither. Most popular youtube content is already garbage in my opinion but many small kids are already happy viewing bottom tier AI gibberish for hours. And if endless AI content will soon be good enough to hit the dopamine centers in adults, only the connoisseurs will seek out the human made content making the markets impossibly small for artisans creating video content. It's already a tragedy that socialmedia has made it so 95% of all content consumed on the internet is made in the last 24 hours lowering the value of making an effort. Everyone is in desperate need of quality, boundaries and strict media diets including myself.
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seydor 3y ago
So , like the "real" content . I think most people don't trust random videos, that's why they follow influencers who they consider reliable. I think overall the distribution of quality of content will remain the same, just a lot more of it at all levels.

nathanaldensr 3y ago

I think there are more categories than just that--e.g., kids videos.

andybak 3y ago

Yeah but that stuff was mostly pointless garbage before the advent of AI. Content farms, apps for endlessly generating variations of the same content, low wage and Mechanical Turk jobs etc etc. Maybe AI will speed up the process of making this stuff either ignored or unacceptable. Things gotta get worse before they get better...

constantly 3y ago
“The Top 10 X You NEED in CURRENT_YEAR” has been a ubiquitous article title when searching for reviews on literally anything for years. It will only get worse for sure.
- mtmail 3y ago
  I've seen an AI generated "top 10 list Chrome extensions for $X" submitted to HN. Those didn't exist, I searched, those extensions were all made up. (The user is now blocked.)
everdrive 3y ago
That’s true, but I think there are few points of concern here. Currently, I can detect content farm garbage. Will I be able to when AI starts churning out videos? Volume is also a concern. If 10x more videos are AI trash, it functionally just becomes harder to find what you want. WRT propaganda, I think the past few years have proven that people are just absolutely terrible at resisting political manipulation. I don’t support censorship as a solution to this issue, but at the same time it seems impossible to imagine AI doing anything other than making this problem significantly worse. I also wonder how much worse AI will make the filter bubble phenomenon. I don’t just mean with regard to political extremism, but also when it comes to basic alienation from your peers. Too much homogenous culture wasn’t a good thing, but infinitely personalized culture is pretty alienating as well.
- 6510 3y ago
  > Will I be able to when AI starts churning out videos? It is already full of it! If you are into bananas you type "bananas" in the box and a video comes out that is disturbingly watchable (but easy to spot with its "open eye" kind of typos and dull stockphotos) https://invideo.io/ai/ https://invideo.io/ai/
kossTKR 3y ago
AI's will capture viewtime so effectively that human creators channels will wither. Most popular youtube content is already garbage in my opinion but many small kids are already happy viewing bottom tier AI gibberish for hours. And if endless AI content will soon be good enough to hit the dopamine centers in adults, only the connoisseurs will seek out the human made content making the markets impossibly small for artisans creating video content. It's already a tragedy that socialmedia has made it so 95% of all content consumed on the internet is made in the last 24 hours lowering the value of making an effort. Everyone is in desperate need of quality, boundaries and strict media diets including myself.

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seydor 3y ago

So , like the "real" content . I think most people don't trust random videos, that's why they follow influencers who they consider reliable. I think overall the distribution of quality of content will remain the same, just a lot more of it at all levels.