Subj : Re: ChatGPT?
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Mattermorphosis
Date : Wed Feb 15 2023 11:02:13

Ya, this is why I appreciate that things like BBS and IRC exist.. here be
humans.

A good portion of the web is already AI generated, it's pretty easy to spot.
The articles are often in long-form blog format, they ramble on with lots of
filler content that adds nothing of substance to the topic, and broken up
into multiple sections under subheadings. There is most definitely a pattern
to it and it makes up a significant percentage of search results these days.
I think a lot of recipe websites are using AI now too. I'm sure the quality
of generated content will improve over time but for now it sticks out like a
sore thumb.

Sometimes the content is actually useful, but the human element is lost
and they are devoid of any personality. And yeah, this is going to decimate
the industry and the quality of the web if something doesn't change.

Funny story.. I needed to bleach some white clothes a while back and went
searching for information on mixing ratios and soak duration. It was
surprisingly difficult to find this most basic information and I kept landing
on AI articles. Soak time I was finding ranged from 5 minutes to 24 hours,
with a number of articles warning that after 30 minutes it would damage the
cloth, yet others were suggesting 8, 12, 24 hours or more. This particular
topic seemed to completely confuse the AI bots, and I was getting results
suggesting, for example, to soak whites in 24 gallons of bleach mixed with 1
cup of water for 48 hours. It was hilarious but also sad (and a little bit
dangerous). I think the bots were learning from other bot content and it just
spiraled into total chaos.

I suppose there is always a chance the bots will destroy themselves :P

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