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Will Oremus May 5, 2023

I went on a quest to find out if AI is already secretly writing a lot of the stuff we read online. I found more than I ever imagined.

From online recipes to mattress reviews to celebrity horoscopes, human writing is fast becoming the exception on the internet, rather than the rule.

My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/

He wrote a book on a rare subject. Then a ChatGPT replica appeared on Amazon.

The web has long been full of spammy content. AI is on the verge of making it much worse.

The Washington Post

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Mullaney May 5, 2023

@willoremus Excellent story. I hope that search companies are working hard to figure out ways to filter out work that is substantially ai generated. I think there is a huge opportunity for the search engine that does it first and does it best.

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LisPi

@mullaney @willoremus Cutting the majority out is actually pretty trivial. Downranking sites that rely on a lot of Javascript related to ad-tracking or ads in general would do the trick for basically everything that's not disinformation at publisher's cost.