Ai is destroying the internet
Besides the infinite social media maelstrom1 and the continuously growing commercialization of the web2, we will soon have to deal with an avalanche of AI-generated content3 as well. The corners of the internet cultivated by individuals are important for its vitality and may even become critical to the very survival of a humane online ecosystem.... See more
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This isn’t just an inconvenience—it’s a real problem. When the internet becomes dominated by AI, we lose the human touch that makes it special. Soon, the most common content online could be artificial, and the internet could feel like a world of endless copies and fakes.
Jerry • AI Is Quietly Destroying the Internet!
While LLMs continue to devour web-scraped data, they’ll increasingly consume their own digital progeny as AI-generated content continues to flood the internet. This recursive loop, experimentally confirmed, erodes the true data landscape. Rare events vanish first. Models churn out likely sequences from the original pool while injecting their own... See more
Azeem Azhar • 🔮 Open-source AI surge; UBI surprises; AI eats itself; Murdoch’s empire drama & the internet’s Balkanisation ++ #484
The internet as we know it is quietly/rapidly changing—and not necessarily for the better. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quietly taking over much of the digital world, and soon, we may find ourselves living in a reality where almost everything we see online is artificially generated.
Jerry • AI Is Quietly Destroying the Internet!
Google is trying to kill the 10 blue links. Twitter is being abandoned to bots and blue ticks. There’s the junkification of Amazon and the enshittification of TikTok. Layoffs are gutting online media. A job posting looking for an “AI editor” expects “output of 200 to 250 articles per week.” ChatGPT is being used to generate whole spam sites. Etsy... See more