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.
Spicy but not too Flamey@mdekstrand I've had an issue with content farms generally for years. The early days of search engines were gold compared to today; I remember being able to easily find, say, a computer store nearby very easily using Google or Yahoo!.
Now? It's a slog through a ton of unrelated junk to find relevant information.
I never valued the sterling service the Yellow Pages provided back in the day, when I could find what I wanted more or less immediately.
This is true for most information trawls today.
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