On the up side, since the machines can't tell the generated from the real, and they train on everything, they will be rapidly heading towards some sort of gibberish strange attractor, and will make less and less sense over time.
Should make hand-tooled blogs even more popular. At least among people who read.
this is so on point in our household. We were discussing about how proper journalism will become a niche part of our lives again. You'll get 1% of the cream of the crop that attract the millions of followers, but people will congregate around sources they trust. Which becomes a problem because humans are biased and will just go to sources that they agree with, but i wonder how much of that actually happens and most reasonable (the majority of) people will follow a Leigh Sales or Laura Tingle. And that will then form a basis for uni teaching in that sphere focusing on research and how to filter out the bot shit. Journalists will have to stake their reputation on how well they can sort the 1% from the 99% bot dribble and become information gateway gurus. I've already had to talk to my kids who have said "i cant believe i found out about this before they were talking about it on the news" and had to sit them down and discuss the benefits of news outlets verifying information, biased reporting and pressures of news outlets in this day and age, and that positive reinforcement on one event blocks out the memory of all those times they didnt get it right. Brave New World.
On the up side, since the machines can't tell the generated from the real, and they train on everything, they will be rapidly heading towards some sort of gibberish strange attractor, and will make less and less sense over time.
Should make hand-tooled blogs even more popular. At least among people who read.
this is so on point in our household. We were discussing about how proper journalism will become a niche part of our lives again. You'll get 1% of the cream of the crop that attract the millions of followers, but people will congregate around sources they trust. Which becomes a problem because humans are biased and will just go to sources that they agree with, but i wonder how much of that actually happens and most reasonable (the majority of) people will follow a Leigh Sales or Laura Tingle. And that will then form a basis for uni teaching in that sphere focusing on research and how to filter out the bot shit. Journalists will have to stake their reputation on how well they can sort the 1% from the 99% bot dribble and become information gateway gurus. I've already had to talk to my kids who have said "i cant believe i found out about this before they were talking about it on the news" and had to sit them down and discuss the benefits of news outlets verifying information, biased reporting and pressures of news outlets in this day and age, and that positive reinforcement on one event blocks out the memory of all those times they didnt get it right. Brave New World.
oooh and i bag dibs on the term "Botshit crazy" for anything that is so out there only an AI of the 2020s could have written it.
So we will be seeing a more bespoke blog, the cheese in the cheeseburger being a more artisanal, raw milk goat style cheese.
This is the way.
This article really opened my eyes to how AI is being used to generate junk content purely for SEO to drive clicks.
https://escapecollective.com/commerce-content-is-breaking-product-reviews/
Isn’t there some kind of Chinese whispers thing going on where it goes from English to something to something to English and so on?
Yeah, that's a big part of it according to the piece.