Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
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Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
When it's easy to generate content without writing it yourself, then 99% of content will be AI-generated.
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
Tyler Cowen thinks biometrics are the answer:
One side effect of all the new AI developments is that biometrics will increase greatly in importance.
Captcha tests, for one thing, will become obsolete. To prevent bots from flooding a web site, biometric tests will be a ready option.
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
As instant "fake content" becomes more and more like "real content" that takes hours to painstakingly produce, the outcome is clear:
The Internet will become, slowly and then suddenly, completely fake.It will become a market for lemons.
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
One thing I’ve been saying often is: when it's 10x easier to fake it than to make it, fakes will always outnumber the truth.
Sunday Reads #170: Lemon markets, dark forests, and a firehose of malicious garbage.
What happens when the Internet becomes a never-ending firehose of malicious garbage?
This is what happens: You start logging off the Internet....
... and logging in to more curated, closed communities.
No more talking to fake people on Twitter or Facebook. No more using Google for search.
Instead, everything happens in closed Slack or Discord commu
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