Google researchers have come out with a new paper that warns that generative AI is ruining vast swaths of the internet with fake content — which is painfully ironic because Google has been hard at work pushing the same technology to its enormous user base.
Google: “how dare someone else be better at ruining the internet than us”
Facebook: “Hold my beer. I’ll show you who’s the real cancer of the internet.”
I think twitter took the throne
I disagree, you can completely avoid both FB and Twitter. You’re not going to find any valuable info on either, except maybe some cutting edge current event things on Twitter. If either of them were completely wiped tomorrow my life would be unchanged.
Google on the other hand used to be a great resource for finding good info, but that’s ruined and getting worse as we speak. I’d argue its decline is significantly more impactful than what’s happened to FB/Twitter. It impacts me on a daily basis.
Ok yeah, I think you’re right. Plus Google is everywhere
LLM is the insanely productive content creator. We can’t say how much of the web is generated by it at any moment (and that’s ignoring older copypaste articles), but the organic material one wants to prioritise in machine learning gets significantly reduced. This tech, if not isolated from it’s learning material, is predictably falling into a feedback loop, and at each cycle it is going to get worse.
Surprisingly, pre LLM-boom datasets can probably become more valuable than contemporary ones.
The call is coming from inside the house.
It’s in the fracking ship!!
It‘s like they‘re releasing the manual for what they‘re doing.
It’s like a free ride when you’ve already paid
It’s like a good advice that you just didn’t take
A traffic jam when you’re already late
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