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“AI is going to fill the web with garbage. How are we going to deal with that? “ Is an excellent question. I genuinely worry about that. Several years ago, if y
by reacharavindh 3y ago
“AI is going to fill the web with garbage. How are we going to deal with that? “
Is an excellent question. I genuinely worry about that. Several years ago, if you’re good at searching by keywords you can sift through low quality content and get to the reasonable sources easily. Then came the SEO spam. Blogs and articles that repeated content to appease the bots, but annoyed the users searching for content. Now, AI is going to put it on steroids. We are going to have LLMs search the web for us and eliminate results that look like they were generated by LLMs. What a pity state of the internet that will be.
- wildrhythms 3y agoWait until these LLMs start eating the garbage they output; training themselves on their own hallucinations. I think soon people will be seeking out verified human-created, human-curated content.
- krapp 3y agoThat's already happening, and people already do. However, until it's proven that using LLMs to create content isn't categorically more profitable than using humans (which can be the case when the product is inferior, depending on the margins) then it isn't going to matter what people want. If 90% of the market is shit, people will learn to like the taste of shit.
- __loam 3y agoI think a lot of people on this site seriously misunderstand the attention economy. Quality matters more and productivity matters less than people think.
- krsrhe 3y agoWhy? Humans aren’t seeking out quality content now, when most popular content is spam advertising, rage bait, and propaganda.
- __loam 3y agoIs that actually true?
- achow 3y ago> I think soon people will be seeking out verified human-created, human-curated content. For this humans should be willing to pay another human for their efforts. Which history has shown would be tough.
- Workaccount2 3y agoWe could use things like banner ads and side column videos to fill the gap!
- theGnuMe 3y agoI pay for books and music so..?
- lazide 3y agoHow will you tell which ones are made by real humans, and which ones are AI generated? And regardless, which have real content when the reviews and ads are also generated?
- whynotmaybe 3y agoI think we should collectively lower our quality standards and accept grammatical errors in books. As human are fallible, a mistake in a book would show that it's "human made". Or start a "no ai used" certification process like for organic vegetables?
- lazide 3y agoChatGPT type AI will (and does) happily make spelling and grammar mistakes if it makes the output more believable. It’s a believable-it’s-human output generator, not an actually-true output generator. Historically, the two have been strongly correlated - but that connection has been weakening more and more over time, as the correlation is dependent on the actual knowledge level and ability to apply critical thinking to judge it. It’s going to be the world’s best liar if it can be. Even if that means mostly telling the truth most of the time. And considering ’organic’ certification allows a large whitelist of pesticides….
- jasonvorhe 3y agoGoogle is obviously run by the CFO nowadays, based on the company's behavior of the last few years. Google search quality is no longer a priority as long as ~90% of people are using it anyways since it's their devices default search engine and the requirements for search are basically "show me some news, a recipe, pictures of a travel location, where to find a product and perhaps a product review before I purchase".
- nunez 3y agoI don't know how Kagi does it, but it behaves exactly like old Google did before it got SEO-ed and now AI-ed to death. High quality search results, extremely user-oriented, and they treat every bug report seriously. It is absolutely fantastic and well worth the money.