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    Generative AI has really become a poison. It’ll be worse once the generative AI is trained on its own output.

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    1 year ago

    You don’t get to blame AI for this. Reddit was already overrun by corporate and US gov trolls long before AI.

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      1 year ago

      “New poison has been added to arsenic. Should you stop drinking it? Subscribe to find out.”

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    AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With ‘Parasite SEO’

    FTFY

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      Ai is a tool. It can be used for good and it can be used for poison. Just because you see it being used for poison more often doesn’t mean you should be against ai. Maybe lay the blame on the people using it for poison

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    I just consider any comment after Jun 2023 to be compromised. Anyone who stayed after that date either doesn’t have a clue, or is sponsored content.

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    yeah, the internet is doomed to be unusable if AI just keeps getting more insidious like this

    yet more companies tie themselves to online platforns, websites, and other models of operation depending on being always connected.

    maybe the world needs a reboot, just get rid of it all and start from scratch

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      maybe the world needs a reboot, just get rid of it all and start from scratch

      That would destroy all the old good vintage stuff and leave us with machines that immediately fill the vacant space with pure trash.

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        1 year ago

        rapture but with technology would be pretty funny

        save the good old stuff and burn the rest

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    This is a direct consequence of Google targeting Reddit posts in its search results. Hopefully forum groups like Lemmy don’t go get buried under a mountain of garbage as well. As long as advertisers are able to destroy public forums and communities with ads, with ad based revenue sites like Google directing who to target. We will always be creating something great while constantly trying to keep advertisers from turning it into a pile of crap.

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      The history of TV, in reverse. And then forward again.

      At first, it was an impossibly expensive medium rules by a cartel of agencies and advertisers. Eventually, HBO comes along and shows you don’t have to just make a bunch of lowest common denominator drivel.

      Netflix eventually shows that the internet can be a way cheaper model than cable. Finally, money shows up in the streaming model, remaking advertiser friendly cable in the internet age. All in about 2.5 decades.

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    1 year ago

    How exactly are they poisoning a pool of toxic waste?

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    I still haven’t seen a use of AI that doesn’t serve state or corporate interests first, before the general public. AI medical diagnostics comes the closest, but that’s being leveraged to justify further staffing reductions, not an additional check.

    The AI-captcha wars are on, and no matter who wins we lose.

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    I appreciate the mostly benign neglect we had for awhile. Now that they’re paying attention it’s just all bad. Or would be, if I was there. HA.