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There was one of those "memes" a few years ago that is just a screenshot of someone's Twitter post that was essentially: "My wife is a teacher, she used AI to
by pc86 5mo ago
There was one of those "memes" a few years ago that is just a screenshot of someone's Twitter post that was essentially:
"My wife is a teacher, she used AI to help create an assignment, all the kids used AI to complete it, and now she's using AI to grade it. Nobody learned anything, nobody really did anything. What's happening?"
- dalmo3 5mo agoBeing the devil's advocate, it sounds like no one involved see any value in that exchange, therefore they don't care. In that sense AI slop is a symptom, not a disease. But perhaps also a catalyst. I really wonder if there is a sort of silver lining here, and in the long term low value activities will be filtered out of society. Though that borders on the AI maximalist view which I don't fully agree with. Of course the glaring question is what value even is.
- FrustratedMonky 5mo ago"silver lining" agree. if internet is so filled with slop. people will move away from it, start to read books, walk, hang out with each other again?
- WhrRTheBaboons 5mo agonot when all the world capital is pushed into that bubble while eventually eroding the freedom to do all these things can't move away from internet when you can't earn money without it, and all the services require you to participate can't read books if no one is going to be publishing those, after they get out-competed by cheap endless slop no point in walking when cities are built for cars and businesses, and public spaces continue to dwindle and be defunded can't hang out when you're too tired trying to survive
- pc86 5mo agoThere are absolutely people "trying to survive" but nobody reading HN falls into that category.