On this topic, I am optimistic on how generative AI has made us collectively more negative to shallow content. Be it lazy copypaste journalism with some phrases swapped or school testing schemes based on regurgitating facts rather than understanding, none of which have value and both of which displace work with value, we have basically tolerated it.

But now that a rock with some current run through it can pass those tests and do that journalism, we are demanding better.

Fingers crossed it causes some positive in the mess.

[–] malean@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

We have to deal now with periods of crap content, until people will fatigue and became aware of the shitty ai things made for quick bucks.

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

The problem is that because the production costs of the crap content will now be near zero, it will always be profitable to create as long as there is just a fraction of the consumerbase falling for it.

It is never going to stop on its own because of lack of demand, it is going to continue and something drastic will have to be thought up to create an internet where everything isn't buried in AI generated crap.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly

I hope it has same effect than mechanization for menial work. It raises the bar for what people expect other people to do.

Long term it helps reach a utopia, short term there will be a lot of people impacted by it.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I just noticed that with generated music getting better I feel more demanding towards the music I listen to.

[–] Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I recently realized that I have some basic bitch music tastes and could likely listen to ai generated instrumentals for a long time

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 4 points 7 months ago

They fit some use-cases pretty well, like background music in stores or for doing something, I think

[–] uienia@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The problem is that quantity is no longer going to be a problem, it can be created for virtually nothing, so basically just a tiny profit will be enough to warrant it in the outlook of those responsible for it.

Now endless shallow spam, which slightly resembles something worthwhile, can be generated in an instant, because it will generate a meagre profit. It is already happening on the book market for example. Amazon is flooded with AI generated books, and proper authors are simply buried in the mountains of generated spam which is at best nonsensical but at worst genuinely misinforming.

Perhaps consumers will become more discerning in the future (although to be honest not much in the present suggests that will be the outcome), but it will never remove the increasing mountains of spam, because it will be produced for as long as just a fraction of people buy into it. And this will be applicable to everything on the internet. If we thought commercialisation and spam was bad now, we have seen nothing at all yet.

So even with proper discernment, it will take a lot of time and effort just to locate something earnest and worthwhile in the generated spam.

[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

And what about all the people who won't be able to join the community because they're terrible at making helpful and constructive co-- ... oh.

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