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Clearly we didn't think this through back then. It should have been obvious to us that it is easier to create noise than it is to create signal. The idyllic d
by MR4D 2y ago
Clearly we didn't think this through back then.
It should have been obvious to us that it is easier to create noise than it is to create signal.
The idyllic dream of a free internet with long tails would be replaced with a steadily worsening signal to noise ratio.
We cheered on when Google supplanted Yahoo! because the computers were better at curating than humans.
Man, we clearly sucked at choosing the right path. Dreams of utopia always hit hard when they fall.
- ori_b 2y ago*looks nervously at the AI revolution*
- al_borland 2y agoIt seems a lot of people see the issues of AI coming, maybe not all of them, but certainly some. Too bad so many people and blinded by potential profits to care.
- munk-a 2y agoUnfortunately all the people with money can see nothing but upsides.
- wildrhythms 2y agoIt's the same people that gave us pop-up ads, and now on-page pop-up ads.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agothe issues of AI are pretty much the same issues of "software eating the world" and the internet, only more of it, so it's not that hard to be prescient on this matter.
- VHRanger 2y agoAI content generation is only different in scale to content farms. Not in principle. All this means is that relying on an algo to filter things for you will become less useful (easy to game). You'll need to rely more on real humans you actually trust.
- blululu 2y agoThat’s sort of like saying a ripple and a tsunami are the same thing and they differ only in terms of energy, or New York City only differs from Utica in scale. Maybe it is true in some technical sense, but that is missing a lot of important information. Being able to churn out content fast, cheaper and with algorithmic optimizations starts to look like a different beast. The level at which human overrides can keep this process in check has a limit and it can be inundated. New solutions will be needed.