One funny/sad thing that I know might happen goes like this:
A decade ago I wrote a couple Zombie stories to express myself. Noone read them…
So as an efficient machine AI wont scrape these stories, it wont find the pen-name anywhere on the internet, so it’ll just say, “I’ll just repost them verbatim and change the names” and noone will know, of course unless it becomes a great AI novel licensed by Netflix and then I bring out the receipts…
Well there will be problems and there will be solutions. Proof -of-human is already a thing in Blockchain space. If dating apps get inundated with chatbots new dating apps will evolve emphasizng real in person interactions.
If llm can write good enough fiction by themselves and stable diffusion good enough art. Well so these things become abundant. I see no problem with that.
We don't have GAIs yet. When we do things might be different ( as humans themselves might become obsolete). But with current crop of tools? Llm is just another one in the stack.
I guess I think about ChatGPT as less “creating more content” and more “navigating content better.” I use ChatGPT instead of Google now for exactly the reasons you mention (everything on Google is SEO content with nothing useful in it.) But I fact check sources of course 🤓
I have been wondering though if we’ll just go back to paper to cut out the noise!
This feels exactly correct. I've been thinking for a while that the next phase of the internet is a return to curated link directories and forum culture....ie, 2001 all over again? Who would have guessed. That's an especially astute point about how every problem AI solves, cannot be solved at scale. It's such a short-sighted solution.
“So perhaps the A.I. revolution will just shift how this is all handled and produce nothing except even more money for a few tech companies.” Maybe it’s time we send copies of Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” to the googlers and twits and metapeoples.
At what point did everyone forget what the 'Internet' is? It's not the text, images, audio and videos we and the AIs ingest and wax lyrical about. It's the stuff that transmits the data which represents those things. The Internet was designed at its outset to be highly resilient. Decades later it's still doing its job. So either propose a breakage mechanism or stop talking about things being (potentially) broken because it makes for better FUD. Otherwise the counterfactual and distressingly unimaginative have already won.
I do hope they break the internet or rather than the internet social media as it exists now, I believe tabula rasa is the only way to save the web's social sphere.
One funny/sad thing that I know might happen goes like this:
A decade ago I wrote a couple Zombie stories to express myself. Noone read them…
So as an efficient machine AI wont scrape these stories, it wont find the pen-name anywhere on the internet, so it’ll just say, “I’ll just repost them verbatim and change the names” and noone will know, of course unless it becomes a great AI novel licensed by Netflix and then I bring out the receipts…
Well there will be problems and there will be solutions. Proof -of-human is already a thing in Blockchain space. If dating apps get inundated with chatbots new dating apps will evolve emphasizng real in person interactions.
If llm can write good enough fiction by themselves and stable diffusion good enough art. Well so these things become abundant. I see no problem with that.
We don't have GAIs yet. When we do things might be different ( as humans themselves might become obsolete). But with current crop of tools? Llm is just another one in the stack.
Hey! For some of us, the jokes and idiocy are the truth!
I guess I think about ChatGPT as less “creating more content” and more “navigating content better.” I use ChatGPT instead of Google now for exactly the reasons you mention (everything on Google is SEO content with nothing useful in it.) But I fact check sources of course 🤓
I have been wondering though if we’ll just go back to paper to cut out the noise!
This feels exactly correct. I've been thinking for a while that the next phase of the internet is a return to curated link directories and forum culture....ie, 2001 all over again? Who would have guessed. That's an especially astute point about how every problem AI solves, cannot be solved at scale. It's such a short-sighted solution.
“So perhaps the A.I. revolution will just shift how this is all handled and produce nothing except even more money for a few tech companies.” Maybe it’s time we send copies of Vonnegut’s “Player Piano” to the googlers and twits and metapeoples.
At what point did everyone forget what the 'Internet' is? It's not the text, images, audio and videos we and the AIs ingest and wax lyrical about. It's the stuff that transmits the data which represents those things. The Internet was designed at its outset to be highly resilient. Decades later it's still doing its job. So either propose a breakage mechanism or stop talking about things being (potentially) broken because it makes for better FUD. Otherwise the counterfactual and distressingly unimaginative have already won.
I do feel we're reverting back to a web 1.5. I don't think anyone's been satisfied with Web 2.0
I do hope they break the internet or rather than the internet social media as it exists now, I believe tabula rasa is the only way to save the web's social sphere.