Post B5sb3tUXKoBtDYHCyG by tmcfarlane@toot.community
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 (DIR) Post #B5sJw3wwrvVU7FFJCq by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       AI is flooding the web -- one of the ways Big Tech is wiping out the open Internet as fast as it can. How can we collectively stop them? https://www.404media.co/study-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated/?utm%5C_source=flipboard&utm%5C_medium=activitypub%5D%28https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fstudy-finds-a-third-of-new-websites-are-ai-generated%2F%3Futm_source%3Dflipboard
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sMgLGT1au92uZSoC by jamesmarshall@sfba.social
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       @dangillmor among other things, maybe pass laws requiring products of generative "AI" to include a piece of metadata that marks them as such, and can be used to filter it all out?  Otherwise, it's just more tech that enables lying and disinformation.We should *not* be striving to make machines that can pass the Turing Test.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sUJWxkAI3OIdRllA by labrezza@mastodon.bida.im
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       @dangillmor I don't really like the solution given in the article, which is basically: making AI sound more human and diverse. When that will be the case, AI-generated content will be indistinguishable from human-generated content, and that will be really sad in my opinion.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sb3tUXKoBtDYHCyG by tmcfarlane@toot.community
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       @dangillmor I'm surprised it's that low. Though one thing is that they tend to get higher search engine placement too.  It feels weirdly un-hyperbolic to say that this is the end of the web and search engines. Communities of human interests need to get back to curated web rings. Search is going to die, and more or less already has.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sjmVidMnHC9WekPQ by rainbowdragon@mastodon.social
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       @dangillmor I'm a bit skeptical about the step between 'more sites are (co)-generated my AI' and that being a sign of the 'open internet' being wiped out.Having an internet presence out of social networks has been limited to the folx with technical knowledge or the financial background to pay techies for it. AI seems to allow the crowd of non tech inclined folx to also be present in the internet. Imho, that facet is not bad at all, quite the contrary.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5sm6EJZz4zlsIT40u by rayotron@mstdn.social
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       @dangillmor Elect people, pass laws, and don't allow anyone to stop us.