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In order for the AI to get better by reading people’s posts we, the humans, have to start posting better. It’s not actually learning. It’s just predicting what should be next. And this is the real world. So asking people to voluntarily be better isn’t happening any goddamn time soon. (Especially not with the profit motive of Damocles dangling over our necks.) So this was always bound to happen. There is no graduate school of internet comments that the AI can attend after it’s done scraping Reddit.

And you know what I am certain of? That none of this tech is making us better. It might be making us worse! At least on the internet we certainly aren’t all our best selves! And it’s learning from that version of us. And that’s the last real shit it will “learn” from. I’m so glad that the financial wellbeing of billions of people will be impacted if this godforsaken behemoth collapse.

Move fast and break things, such as the entirety of human knowledge

When they say AI content went from 5% of the internet to 48% of the internet I also need to see alongside that a graph of the total amount of content on the internet.

Did it actually decrease human content on the internet or did it just massively increase the content on the internet with absolute horseshit?

You know what the best part about this is? Their capitalist answer to this isn't going to be to generate less content, it's gonna be to sell you a subscription to filter it out and you know there's gonna be premium human only websites.

The worse the internet becomes the higher incentive you have to pay for these services.

In a slow way the internet nay sayers are right. AI slop is only part of it. Plenty of humans are also making easily consumed content gruel chasing the algorithm.

I really don’t like people’s nostalgia for the old web. Like try creating your own enclaves sure but realise it was always a voluntary thankless effort. What little we still got is amazing considering how many people sink hundreds of thousands of hours into YouTube slop or league of legends or whatever. Or how hard it is to self host with everybody trying to harass or scam webmasters.

Oops, turns out all value is created through labor.

Declining rate of profit has the craziest implications.

Building data centers to wreck the climate was taking too long, so they innovated a new, faster climate change.

Crud and we were so close to AGI. Missed the moon by a hairsbreadth, we did.

AI is denying itself now

Fried memes were prophecy.

I'm excited to watch the bubble burst on AI, specifically when the prices start rising. The amount of complaining from the worst people on earth will be delicious.

So AI is… inbreeding?

consequence of capitalism in the internet

Everything on the mainstream internet will be pressreleaseslop and stockimageslop with some conspiracyslop mixed in for flavor

Could there be anything better than the death of the Internet?

I think we will see a return to the analog. Pagers and typewriters. The comeback of intentionality.

Perplexity is more like a search engine. They don't provide botting services afaik.

Prediction:

This will lead to an industry of boutique "human only" websites advertised in meat space, along with a semi organic, semi astroturfed "digital temperance" movement

Won’t somebody think of the slop generators :(((

called it, Digital Kessler syndrome

That really that much different to humans? I mean I know it is but when you think about it you barely find people who don't speak in memes or goofy shit anymore. So many reactionary ideas spread like wild fire. Racism sexism etc is fucking rampant and its what drives a lot of the algorithm. Shit the AI will fit right in

And people will still consume it