who've been pointing this out. Article in the Guardian yesterday:
'I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff': professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221086763
There was a recent survey asking people if AI has more benefits or risks. About twice as many people thought it had more risks as those who thought it has more benefits.
Even if we could stop the AI slop on the internet now, so much has been generated in just a few years that it would take years to clear most of it away.
I love discovering music from.artists I hadn't heard of before, but these days there's so much AI slop music on YouTube and other platforms that I'm relieved when I see a video is too old to have been generated by AI. Real artists are hurt by all the AI slop, though.
Really, everyone is hurt by AI slop. It confuses people about what's real, and that's a situation that benefits dictators and wannabe dictators, as people who aren't sure what to believe put their faith in authoritarian leaders. AI hurts real news sources by diverting attention to fake news outlets - it can take only a couple of hours and a couple hundred dollars to set up a fake news site with fake staff with fake bios including fake photos, and lots of fake news stories already generated after the AI rips off real news stories for real people's names and changes details. AI hurts real writers and artists and musicians by diverting attention from them to people without that talent who are using AI to fake it. AI discourages people from acquiring skills and knowledge, and developing talent.
Tremendous loss, all the way around. I knew it would be harmful but didn't expect it to get this bad, this quickly.
I just spotted another AI slop video here, that one posted in the Science forum. Sigh.
LC, if you check comments on images or video or purported news stories posted online, the comments will often include people pointing out if something is AI. But yeah, it's a time-consuming nuisance to have to do that because the AI companies released AI tools that are basically high-speed fraud generators.
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