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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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Mark-André Tremblay

@willoremus of course, everything that was within the listicle trend has probably switched to AI writing by now.
Creators of that content always went for the path of least effort.
But to me that's a cause for worry.
It will eventually make real content, like research papers and scientific literature stand out a lot more compared to that echo chamber of "useless" post.
#hope #aiwriting