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
@willoremus @festal Yes to this: “As AI writes more and more of what we read, vast, unvetted pools of online data may not be grounded in reality, warns Margaret Mitchell, chief ethics scientist at the AI start-up Hugging Face. “The main issue is losing track of what truth is,” she said. “Without grounding, the system can make stuff up. And if it’s that same made-up thing all over the world, how do you trace it back to what reality is?””
@willoremus @festal Isn’t it ironic that none of the science fiction with sentient AI has them making up random stuff, or creating spam. Not even the #feminist #sf I love reading.