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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
As I had to navigate this new web more and more, I began noticing that being able to tell the signs of whether a publication is legitimate or AI slop was not so different on its face than being able to tell whether that link to a repository of videogame content is giving virus.
kate wagner • AI and Internet Hygiene
This leaves us with some low-hanging fruit for humanness. We can tell richly detailed stories grounded in our specific contexts and cultures: place names, sensual descriptions, local knowledge, and, well the je ne sais quoi of being alive. Language models can decently mimic this style of writing but most don't without extensive prompt e
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You thought the first page of Google was bunk before? You haven't seen Google where SEO optimizer bros pump out billions of perfectly coherent but predictably dull informational articles for every longtail keyword combination under the sun.
Maggie Appleton • The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
The dead internet theory is not really claiming that most of your personal interactions on the internet are fake.
It is, however, an interesting lens through which to view the internet. That it is no longer for humans, by humans – this is the sense in which the internet we knew and loved is “dead”.
It is, however, an interesting lens through which to view the internet. That it is no longer for humans, by humans – this is the sense in which the internet we knew and loved is “dead”.