One 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.
@mdekstrand This is an especially sharp observation to make the day after DPreview.com announced that it was being shut down by Amazon.
@adamrice That's really sad. They were such a good (and thorough) resource in a sea of garbage. I also didn't know they were owned by Amazon.