Ask Lemmy

I think there are going to be tools to identify networks of people and content you don’t want to interact with. This website is pushed by that social media account, which is boosted by these 2000 account that all exhibit bot-like behavior? Well let’s block the website, of course, but also let’s see who else those 2000 bots promote; let’s see who else promotes that website.

In an ethical, human-first world, that would be the case.

Do you think that social media platforms, who run on stealing attention from users so they can steal their private data and behaviour history, would want to block content that's doing exactly that? No way. Not ever.

And the incentive to make easy money drives users, who otherwise wouldn't have the skill or talent to be able to create and present content, to type in a prompt and send it as a post... over and over, automated so no effort at all needs to be made. Do this a million times over, and there's no way to avoid it.

And once we get to the point where AI content can be generated on-the-fly for each doom-scrolling user based on their behaviour on the platform, it's game over. It'll be like digital meth, but disguised to look funny/sexy/informant/cute/trustworthy.

I'm using tools to blacklist AI sites in search, but the lists aren't keeping up, and they don't extend beyond search.

There will come a point, probably very soon, where companies will figure out how to deliver ads and AI content as if it were from the original source content, which will make it impossible to block or filter out. It's a horrific thought, TBH.