Periodic self-repetition: As a data librarian I can say that "AI" is not a matter of personal preference -- whether you like it or not, or whether you have found some use that you think is useful. It actively destroys organized knowledge, and therefore it actively destroys civilization.

Whenever someone looks for a human written text and can't find it because statistical near variants have been created and indexed, whenever "AI" "hallucinates" a reference, knowledge has been destroyed.

@richpuchalsky Shouldn‘t this bring about a trend towards vintage, or pre 2022, books?
@kawentzmann @richpuchalsky Hopefully, but we'll probably also see something similar to the forum backdating stuff trying to take advantage of it...

@KronoGarrett @kawentzmann

It's really easy to have a statistically generated writing procedure create a fake publication date for a book, whether its in a text that gets printed out as a physical book or in a supposed catalog or index of books.

You also can't just go on with pre-2022 material forever.

@richpuchalsky @KronoGarrett Well, I don't read that much. But I see where you're getting at.
@kawentzmann @richpuchalsky @KronoGarrett *sobs in chronically ill physics grad who is interested in neuroscience and queer medicine*