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Fine in what way? What people? I have not seen or heard of a single person who is excited about AI generated blog posts, or TikToks, or commercials, or images.

Fine in what way? What people? I have not seen or heard of a single person who is excited about AI generated blog posts, or TikToks, or commercials, or images. In fact it’s the opposite, the internet coined the term AI slop, and my non-internet addicted friends hate the fact that chatGPT is killing the environment. The only people I’ve ever seen champion AI are the few who are excited by the bleeding edge, and the many many peddlers

officeplant 7mo ago
The most common people just seem to be the elderly who don't care / don't know any better. The same ones who told us never to believe anything from the internet. They seem to be hooked on weird AI jesus facebook posts, daily AI generated motivational content, talking to the chatbot in Whatsapp, etc.
Invictus0 7mo ago
There are probably more than 10^17 AI model executions occurring per day. I know in ye olde HN there are many Purists that are Too Good For AI, but the majority of the human race is consuming AI at a blinding rate, and if they really didn't like it, they would stop.
- girvo 7mo ago
  > and if they really didn't like it, they would stop. I can’t really articulate why, but this doesn’t feel true to me. There are plenty of things humans do especially at scale that we don’t like, or we do that we don’t like others doing, and don’t stop
  - pixl97 7mo ago
    >The "Moloch problem" or "Moloch trap" refers to a scenario where individual, rational self-interest leads to a collective outcome that is disastrous for everyone. It describes competitive, zero-sum dynamics—often called a "race to the bottom"—where participants sacrifice long-term sustainability for short-term gains, resulting in a loss for all involved. Hence why we have to keep feeding the orphan crushing machine.
    - pseudalopex 7mo ago
      Who wrote what you quoted?
      - pixl97 7mo ago
        Instead of getting judgy about Google responses, read the original story. https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch
        pseudalopex 7mo ago
        I read the story before. Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        pixl97 7mo ago
        Ya, that dang be danged, religious adherence to that rule is quite stupid, especially when you're talking to someone that has been here years
        pseudalopex 7mo ago
        You disagreed with a guideline did not make it religious. And account age was not relevant.
- AngryData 7mo ago
  And how much of that consumption is voluntary or willful? I don't want to get AI slop in my search results or in my forum discussions, it muddys the water with shallow at best information, often in excessively verbose ways that helps hide its more subtle falsehoods that it picked up.
- lII1lIlI11ll 7mo ago
  There are probably as many spam emails per day. You think "majority of the human race" likes them?

officeplant 7mo ago

The most common people just seem to be the elderly who don't care / don't know any better. The same ones who told us never to believe anything from the internet. They seem to be hooked on weird AI jesus facebook posts, daily AI generated motivational content, talking to the chatbot in Whatsapp, etc.

Invictus0 7mo ago

There are probably more than 10^17 AI model executions occurring per day. I know in ye olde HN there are many Purists that are Too Good For AI, but the majority of the human race is consuming AI at a blinding rate, and if they really didn't like it, they would stop.

girvo 7mo ago
> and if they really didn't like it, they would stop. I can’t really articulate why, but this doesn’t feel true to me. There are plenty of things humans do especially at scale that we don’t like, or we do that we don’t like others doing, and don’t stop
- pixl97 7mo ago
  >The "Moloch problem" or "Moloch trap" refers to a scenario where individual, rational self-interest leads to a collective outcome that is disastrous for everyone. It describes competitive, zero-sum dynamics—often called a "race to the bottom"—where participants sacrifice long-term sustainability for short-term gains, resulting in a loss for all involved. Hence why we have to keep feeding the orphan crushing machine.
  - pseudalopex 7mo ago
    Who wrote what you quoted?
    - pixl97 7mo ago
      Instead of getting judgy about Google responses, read the original story. https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/Meditations-On-Moloch
      - pseudalopex 7mo ago
        I read the story before. Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
        pixl97 7mo ago
        Ya, that dang be danged, religious adherence to that rule is quite stupid, especially when you're talking to someone that has been here years
        pseudalopex 7mo ago
        You disagreed with a guideline did not make it religious. And account age was not relevant.
AngryData 7mo ago
And how much of that consumption is voluntary or willful? I don't want to get AI slop in my search results or in my forum discussions, it muddys the water with shallow at best information, often in excessively verbose ways that helps hide its more subtle falsehoods that it picked up.
lII1lIlI11ll 7mo ago
There are probably as many spam emails per day. You think "majority of the human race" likes them?