Jason Wells

AIs are currently emitting an unfathomable amount of written text, more and more by the hour. And with the speed and scalability of these systems, I’m willing to bet that if it isn’t already more text than all humanity, combined, produces each hour… it will be soon.

I wonder: given the mind-bending clip of advances in AI lately, how long will it be before 1% of the entire corpus of text in the world, all that was ever written, has nonhuman authorship? Maybe already?

#ai #writing #synthography

Apr 15, 2023 at 11:49pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadJason WellsApr 16, 2023

To build on the same point: the same can be said for #aiart, #aimusic, #aiaudio, #aivideo… At some point, perhaps very soon, 1% of all content in existence will have been authored by nonhuman intelligence.

And, however long it takes to get to 1%, getting to 2% will be way faster. And to 3%, much faster still…

This is staggering, profound, and unprecedented in history. Batten down the hatches… change like we’ve never seen before is coming…

#ChatGPT #stablediffusion #midjourney #synthography