the era of AI-induced mental illness is going to make the era of social media-induced mental illness look like the era of. like. printing press-induced mental illness
the era of AI-induced mental illness is going to make the era of social media-induced mental illness look like the era of. like. printing press-induced mental illness
AI will take all that digital garbage and multiply it by a thousand. Or ten thousand. Or maybe more.
Let's Just Admit it: The Algorithms Are Broken
Something is deeply wrong with a society where people are no longer excited about miraculous technology like AI.
AI will create an existential crisis of epic proportions, as all the dividing lines that are foundational to society—between reality and deception, truth and lies, fact and error—collapse.
-Ted Gioia
The problem may even get worse. Generative AI is producing vast amounts of questionable content that contaminates the datasets on which future AIs will be trained.
Joe Smith • The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
Across X, Facebook, and other social media platforms, AI content is generating tens of millions of impressions every week. A Europol study estimated that 90 percent of online content will be “synthetic”—a.k.a. AI-generated—by the end of 2026. These estimates strike me as accurate, if not a little conservative. The cost to generate text and images i... See more
Evan Armstrong • Feasting at the Trough of AI Slop
(7) AI is imposed everywhere as the new expert system. But when it hallucinates and generates ridiculous responses, the authorities (again) take this for granted.