Jason LefkowitzThere are lots of ways that AI is eroding the intellectual commons, but a subtle one is that now the discussion around every single essay and blog post is immediately dominated by a debate over whether or not it was written with AI
historic drystone sheep dyke@jalefkowit the exact inverse problem is that i saw this piece posted on metafilter a couple of days ago and i felt crazy because nobody else was talking about the fact that the illustrations are almost definitely ai, which feels egregious considering the topic https://bachmanrachel.substack.com/p/what-children-actually-want-from
@hannah Yeah, I would say it's all of a piece; you can't engage with the substance of a work anymore without first establishing how much of it is from the author's own hand and how much is AI, and there's no independent way to do that, so you end up squinting at every line, every illustration, every chart, asking yourself, can I trust this? Is this real?
It's exhausting, which is why it makes me fear for the future of thought. I find myself turning away from things just because I don't want to have to be the Em Dash Police
@jalefkowit yeah it feels like a gresham's law thing where in a few years the open internet will just be 99.99% llm spam like what happened to usenet, and we'll all have to go back to small trusted sites or private group chats. oh well