alt Hacker NewsSo far, AI lowers the quality and increases the quantity of the media we experience.
Blogslam has become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
Bot operations on social media sites and forums have become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
Advertising content has become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
The content of streaming music, online art communities, and video platforms has beckme cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
The content of public code repositories, and the issue and PR channels associated with those repositories, have become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
Customer support services have become cheaper, more voluminous, and worse.
When individuals use AI themselves, towards tasks that they mean to acheive, many of them are individually happy with the results. But pretty much everyone who looks around sees that AI in aggregate is quickly saturating almost everything to which it can be applied to with endless, suffocating slop.
It feels great to pull the handle on the slot machine. It's pretty grim when you stop for a second to look around at the casino and take in the big picture.
I do think this is true but I think it also reflects negatively on the general populace that this new technology is evaluated in terms of the negative effects on their consumption pattens
Transformer models solved the Protein Folding problem in totality but they are categorically "bad" because more of the videos in my feed are low-quality or the advertisement for a cheeseburger looks fake
It's predictable but I do think the entire technology is being collectively processed through the lens of media consumption which is sort of tip of the iceberg of what it does and honestly the least important dimension of it