[skilled]

This battle will not be won by anyone other than the people using these tools to their advantage to pump and dump.

The genie is long out of the box now. Future iterations of LLMs will not get worse but better. And already now, something like GPT-4 easily bypasses human detection if the output is inherently controlled by a human.

Bad AI content can be detected super easily. ChatGPT is limited by its system prompts and it will always take the “least effort” way to answering your question, be it a question or an instruction to write an article. Repetition is a massive issue with 3.5 and Google can scout that out blindfolded.

If you want to mess with your own reputation then by all means use AI. The average internet user will not be any wiser about it. I would be very surprised if Google took action against these types of campaigns based on user feedback as opposed to an implementation in their own algorithms.

[mistrial9]

> This battle will not be won by anyone

you could have stopped right there

[isoprophlex]

The internet has gone past the stage of enshittification.

Everyone knows, or intuits, that the game is up. This is the end game, the Shit Squeeze, where the last drops of goodness are wrung by force from what once was something exciting... and the flames are being fanned by generative AI.

[ggpsv]

The game has been up for a while, this just takes into hyper-drive.

But don't forget, you _can_ opt out of this corporate and consumerist side of the internet. It's over when you're convinced that you cannot do so.

For me personally, this has made it easier to step away from places on the internet that had already started to go down the drain. It's as if the shitty part of internet finally consumes itself out of existence.

Instead, I now follow small personal blogs and niche forums where this is not an issue. Just people posting because they still believe in sharing and connecting, despite of generative AI.