[hooande]

This again assumes that quantity is more valuable than quality. one tweet from a major influencer, like say elon musk, will have more of an impact than one million ai generated comments.

Not to mention that the returns on generated content are diminishing. Ten fake accounts spreading a message will be more effective than one. But at some point, the value from adding a new one goes down.

It doesn't matter if ai makes it cheap to mass produce good enough versions of anything, at least not over the long term. The dynamics of creative content consumption aren't driven by quantity alone

[ijidak]

I don't think the parent is referring to quality, but to the cognitive load of discerning things that are real and true.

As far back as the Romans, Pontius Pilate is recorded as saying, "What is truth?" (John 18:38)

Showing that people struggled with these questions, even back then.

Figuring out what is true and what is false, real and fake, is important to a safe, healthy life.

Whether it's counterfeit goods or counterfeit words, it's all frustrating to the consumer.

Also, the easier it becomes to produce content, the easier bad actors can weaponize ideas.

So, I don't think many are worried about quality.

I think the concern is how will the average person handle a 1000x increase in "counterfeit" content.

Edit: As I think about it, the next Google will probably be whoever solves this problem.

[visarga]

> I think the concern is how will the average person handle a 1000x increase in "counterfeit" content.

The average person will obviously use their own agent AI to filter unwanted content and repackage it in a friendlier format.

[motoxpro]

You're assuming that the "quality" and "major influencer" will always be human. https://influencermarketinghub.com/virtual-influencers

[grungegun]

I'd argue that the incredibly fast rise in quality over the last year alone is what most people are interested in. DALLE and GPT-2 were always able to make heaps of trash. The trajectory of the quality of DALLE-N and GPT-N is what interests me in terms of the AI internet...

[npteljes]

>one tweet from a major influencer, like say elon musk, will have more of an impact than one million ai generated comments.

So all I need to achieve Musk's level of influence is to generate a million comments with AI? At 12 comments per second, the AI would do it in a day. That's a scary power, if you ask me.

[notahacker]

Difference is that Musk issues one message to all his followers

A million comments generated by a few hundred thousand GPT accounts say a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and you exercise very little control over that. The dumb bots that just like and retweet the messages from your main account(s) until people start organically taking notice of them are more useful for influence-generating.