cliffMar 15, 2023
I'm going full luddite mode on GPT, copilot, all that shit. Get it out of here. I'm not suffering a computer to feign knowledge.
Show threadcliffMar 15, 2023
Instead of misinformation, etc we should be talking about information pollution. And people are making machines whose entire job is to spew information pollution.
Show threadKee HinckleyMar 16, 2023
@cliff @cordelya This is very much the argument I’ve been trying to make. We’re polluting the internet with layers and layers of garbage that makes it difficult to find what is real. And on top of that, these systems will start ingesting the garbage and the data quality will continue to drop.
Show threadSamhain Night
@nazgul @cliff @cordelya How long before we can't trust articles on the internet to not be AI generated BS? I give it a few months.
I'll also be checking the dates of articles for pre 2023 timestamps going forward. (Pre-AI contamination)
Mar 16, 2023 at 8:40pmWeb
Show threadKee HinckleyMar 16, 2023

@samhainnight @cliff @cordelya It doesn’t help that all the commercial publishers are weekly changing summaries and dates for SEO.

I don’t think we were more than a few weeks into 2023 than my search for “best xxx” returned pages of “best xxx of 2023”.

It doesn’t bother me so much that everyone’s trying to game the system…of course they are. What bothers me is that the search engines seem to have stopped caring.

But it all makes sense when you apply Doctorow’s “enshittification” model. They’ve completely stopped focusing on users. All they care about is advertisers. So who cares if the search results are garbage, so long as they get to put ads on them?

Show threadSamhain NightMar 16, 2023
@nazgul @cliff @cordelya Exactly