Michael EkstrandOne of the interesting and disturbing aspects of modern LLMs isn’t what new they do, but what they make cheap. Low-quality, duplicative content makes retrieving quality information incredibly hard, especially in commercially lucrative domains such as product reviews. Making it 3+ orders of magnitude less expensive to produce that content will not help our informarion ecosystem, even if AI content is identical in quality and substance to what humans are already producing.
Isaac Rabinovitch@mdekstrand Thing is, junk content is already pretty pervasive online, and is increasingly dominating search engine results. The online economy seems structured to reward generating it, using low-wage human labor. I'm no economist, but it seems to me that the cost savings of LLMs for this use case are pretty minimal.
@isaac32767 I also am not an economist, but I would not at all be surprised to see cost per page go down by multiple orders of magnitude, especially as LLM costs go down.
@mdekstrand Obviously you're right. I'm just questioning whether reducing costs from $1/page to $0.01/page will make any difference in the demand for junk content. I suspect it will just make it more profitable.