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"The amount of AI-generated content is beginning to overwhelm the internet. Or
maybe a better term is
pollute. Pollute its searches, its pages, its feeds,
everywhere you look. I’ve been predicting that generative AI would have
pernicious effects on our culture since 2019, but now everyone can feel it.
Back then I called it the coming “semantic apocalypse.” Well, the semantic
apocalypse is here, and you’re being affected by it, even if you don’t know it.
A minor personal example: last year I published a nonfiction book,
The World
Behind the World, and now on Amazon I find this.
What, exactly, are these “workbooks” for my book? AI pollution. Synthetic trash
heaps floating in the online ocean. The authors aren’t real people, some
asshole just fed the manuscript into an AI and didn’t check when it spit out
nonsensical summaries. But it doesn’t matter, does it? A poor sod will click on
the $9.99 purchase one day, and that’s all that’s needed for this scam to be
profitable since the process is now entirely automatable and costs only a few
cents. Pretty much all published authors are affected by similar scams, or will
be soon.
Now that generative AI has dropped the cost of producing bullshit to near zero,
we see clearly the future of the internet: a garbage dump. Google search? They
often lead with fake AI-generated images amid the real things. Post on Twitter?
Get replies from bots selling porn. But that’s just the obvious stuff. Look
closely at the replies to any trending tweet and you’ll find dozens of
AI-written summaries in response, cheery Wikipedia-style repeats of the
original post, all just to farm engagement. AI models on Instagram accumulate
hundreds of thousands of subscribers and people openly shill their services for
creating them. AI musicians fill up YouTube and Spotify. Scientific papers are
being AI-generated. AI images mix into historical research. This isn’t
mentioning the personal impact too: from now on, every single woman who is a
public figure will have to deal with the fact that deepfake porn of her is
likely to be made. That’s
insane."
Via Wayne Radinsky.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
