Kyle HughesWe could really use a word for, “the threshold for a medium where everything is assumed to be AI because it’s widely understood that the technology available to the public can reproduce this with near-zero marginal cost.” We’re approaching it on all digital surfaces.
Brandon@kyle “slop horizon”
@interstateone I recoiled when I read this like I was hit by sniper fire.
Jordan Kay@kyle Which mediums are we approaching soonest, do you think?
@jn Text. I think text-based social media is running on momentum, like the coyote that ran off the cliff, and a lack of awareness by the older demographic. See: the Swift Evolution thread. Those folks didn’t have the antibodies at all. You display a little of it: you have the subprocess running in the background, polling, “could this be AI?” That’s a little cognitive friction.
I have enough public writing that I could’ve automated this account a year ago. Lack a reason to, thankfully.
@kyle I’m not convinced “text” as a medium (let alone “text purported to be written by humans,” e.g. the Swift Forums) is on a trajectory from “this could be AI” to “assume AI unless proven otherwise.” Are you?
@jn In myself? Never ☺️ But I see it popping up in other people in weird places. The Call of Duty community is up in arms over “AI skins.” There’s almost no way they are AI-generated, they’re just ugly, but the way the pressure of disappointment was released in the community was through the ongoing accusations and review bombing over AI. That’s the stuff in speaking to.
I listened to a Joe Rogan podcast (jfc). They think we’re all AI paid for by Soros. Just reduced friction.
@jn I think the phenomenon I’m trying to describe is: there seems to be a threshold where one’s awareness of AI capability gives one almost universal license to write off anything in that medium as AI (to their preference). It… I don’t know, lowers the friction of not believing reality? Lowers the friction of believing conspiracies? I see all of this as lowering friction in systems, so I’m inclined to frame that here as well.
Jennifer@kyle - how do I know this is really Kyle as opposed to KyleBot?