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Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. I suppose there were warning signs, like every previous Internet technology

Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. I suppose there were warning signs, like every previous Internet technology eventually being used for advertising.

swader999 2y ago
Just wait a couple years when truth becomes too difficult to discern. Fairly easy to plug up forums, science journals, YouTube etc with whatever narrative you want once AI gets a little better.
- halyconWays 2y ago
  It's surely already happening now. Nietzsche worried about The Last Man, well, I think we've reached and passed The Last Dataset. Everything from here on out has some subset of once-digested AI slop, and each iteration will include more and more. Like an image that's bounced back and forth between two mirrors, we'll get further and further from ground truth. Maybe everything will tend towards the latent space equivalent of a grey blob.
- randomdata 2y ago
  I, for one, look forward to this future where we finally get over our weird obsession with truthfulness.
  - swader999 2y ago
    We need truth to survive though. Literally.
    - randomdata 2y ago
      Within a community where it is equally devastating to the person who told the mistruth should you be harmed by it, sure, but the random blowhard on the internet who couldn't care less about you has no reason to think about you at all. Per the discussion taking place, crying that they didn't tell the truth is the stupidest thing imaginable. Said blowhard moving to using generative AI to come up with even crazier nonsense makes no difference. There is no logical reason for you, outside of whatever entertainment value you can find, to be listening to him in the first place and, even if only deep down, you know that.
      - swader999 2y ago
        I look for more credible sources and find it all gamed for profit.
  - pjc50 2y ago
    Sounds like you'll enjoy living in a Soviet environment. Which is the sort of thing you get when politics and governance is entirely built out of lies.
mrguyorama 2y ago
>Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. What the heck are you talking about? Anyone paying attention from 2000-2015 could have seen this coming and predicted it quite well, and in fact did predict this. They are labeled Luddites by those with much better financing, much stronger connections, and huge amounts of profit to be made.

Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. I suppose there were warning signs, like every previous Internet technology eventually being used for advertising.

swader999 2y ago

Just wait a couple years when truth becomes too difficult to discern. Fairly easy to plug up forums, science journals, YouTube etc with whatever narrative you want once AI gets a little better.

halyconWays 2y ago
It's surely already happening now. Nietzsche worried about The Last Man, well, I think we've reached and passed The Last Dataset. Everything from here on out has some subset of once-digested AI slop, and each iteration will include more and more. Like an image that's bounced back and forth between two mirrors, we'll get further and further from ground truth. Maybe everything will tend towards the latent space equivalent of a grey blob.
randomdata 2y ago
I, for one, look forward to this future where we finally get over our weird obsession with truthfulness.
- swader999 2y ago
  We need truth to survive though. Literally.
  - randomdata 2y ago
    Within a community where it is equally devastating to the person who told the mistruth should you be harmed by it, sure, but the random blowhard on the internet who couldn't care less about you has no reason to think about you at all. Per the discussion taking place, crying that they didn't tell the truth is the stupidest thing imaginable. Said blowhard moving to using generative AI to come up with even crazier nonsense makes no difference. There is no logical reason for you, outside of whatever entertainment value you can find, to be listening to him in the first place and, even if only deep down, you know that.
    - swader999 2y ago
      I look for more credible sources and find it all gamed for profit.
- pjc50 2y ago
  Sounds like you'll enjoy living in a Soviet environment. Which is the sort of thing you get when politics and governance is entirely built out of lies.

mrguyorama 2y ago

>Who'd have thought the AI revolution would be used to just clog feeds up with spam. What the heck are you talking about? Anyone paying attention from 2000-2015 could have seen this coming and predicted it quite well, and in fact did predict this. They are labeled Luddites by those with much better financing, much stronger connections, and huge amounts of profit to be made.