[JKCalhoun]

This ChatGPT/AI thing kind of freaks me out the more I peek at it.

I think what I am beginning to realize is that, regardless of what you think of ChatGPT right now, we've only just scratched the surface.

We're standing here poking at this new and curious thing.

I'm thinking back to when I first fired up NCSA Mosaic on a Mac Quadra (or whatever). What did I think of this World Wide Web?

Did I immediately see the disappearance of travel agents, the death of the newspaper, the collapse of the music industry, the slow decline of Hollywood and the rise of streaming services? Did I imagine the rise of digital commerce and the shuttering of brick and mortar stores? Digital currency? Digital navigation?

Of course I didn't.

One wonders what exactly will seem so obvious ten years from now when we're so fully ensconced in this brave new world we've only just taken a step or two into.

I'm kind of fascinated and frightened.

[bombcar]

Spam. Spam spam spam and acres of spam, covered in spam. Spam as far as the eyes can see

I look forward to responding to spam to use it as free programming credits.

[MattDaEskimo]

Disclaimer: An opinion, beware.

There is going to be a lot of spam, but the power of AI will provide unique curated content to each user.

So websites, mostly gone. Content, mostly on social media and then provided to AI through API services.

Each person will have this curated content along with all the intrinsic components to refine it, similar to how most email providers have built-in spam protection & categorization.

So spam will be plenty, but it will be stuck in it's own messy cesspit, being artificially kept alive by other bots.

[selfhoster11]

While you might think I'm joking, LLMs could potentially help with screening out that spam.

[throwup238]

When has an arms race ever gone well against people making money off that arms race? I think spam is a fact of life going forward unless we go back to the pre-industrial age.

It’s all fun and games when we’re spamming Model Ts off an assembly line, not so much when the marginal cost drops to zero. We just have to make sure that the benefits outweigh the spam.

[jakderrida]

>When has an arms race ever gone well against people making money off that arms race?

Technically, there are two sides to that equation making money. I get what you're saying, though.

[yungkha]

I agree, the specific applications of AI are what truly show its transformative power. For instance, I came across IntervueIQ (https://chat.openai.com/g/g-94nPIWIgi-intervueiq), a GPT designed for recruitment. It's fascinating to see how such specialized AI tools are targeting niche problems and streamlining processes. It's a small, yet potent example of AI's practical impact.

[patcon]

Yeah... up until now, we've had the privilege of trusting that everyone "on the wire" speaking "our protocol" is a conscious being, deserving (at least in theory) of our time and respect in return for their own.

No longer.

It's going to get weird.

[Jensson]

> Did I immediately see the disappearance of travel agents, the death of the newspaper, the collapse of the music industry, the slow decline of Hollywood and the rise of streaming services? Did I imagine the rise of digital commerce and the shuttering of brick and mortar stores? Digital currency? Digital navigation?

Investors certainly invested as if all of those would happen way faster than they did though, people knew it would happen but they expected it to happen way faster than it did happen.

It will probably be the same with this thing, the revolution will happen but it will happen way slower than most of us would expect.

[hankyone]

Well said, everything that we are worried about right now in regards to the impacts of AI will most likely be irrelevant in a decade

[y42]

It is fascinating, indeed. But it's also frightening to see, how much spam und unnecessarity this produces. The top 6 writing GPTs contain 3 SEO GPTs. There's a "GPT Search GPT" in the list of productivity GPTs. "Search 22.500+ best custom GPTs" - the bigger the number, the better the product...

[digitcatphd]

For their name they couldn’t possibly be more closed, you can’t get much more closed than a walled off internal marketplace

[marenkay]

It seems like you are comparing to hyper capitalism taking over the internet and reduction of value for money spent, which would be appropriate for ChatGPT since it basically ushers in the area of paying a lot for zero value. Streaming and digital goods was same price for half value, ChatGPT is the capitalist wet dream of money for nothing since the giant energy costs are mostly paid by society as externalised costs.

[chupapimunyenyo]

AI will ruin the internet and it will be extremely difficult to filter out bots, that's my prediction

[aurareturn]

My first initial reaction to ChatGPT was that people will join more and more verified private human communities. Example: Discord channels or private Whatsapp groups.

My second reaction was that the internet will need a protocol to verify that the user is indeed a human.

[theshrike79]

We had a "human" who turned out to be an AI bot on a Discord server...

Took us a while to see it though, its answers to every discussion were way too verbose and used unnecessarily complex language for the context.

It's still unknown whether it was a 100% bot or a human using an AI manually to embellish whatever they wanted to communicate.

[BHSPitMonkey]

Maybe it's simple embellishment, but maybe in some cases it'll be a non-native speaker using an LLM as a personal translator as a way to participate and fit into previously-inaccessible communities. Either way, even with current tools it won't be hard to evade detection; In your example they simply used an inadequate prompt or model.

[theshrike79]

Definitely in two years it'll be a breeze just to give an LLM instruction on how "you" would chat and set it loose on a chat server without most people noticing.

Discord messages are usually pretty short so it wouldn't need a super-long context either.

[beeboop]

WorldCoin solves this despite it receiving near universal criticism (for usually wrong and misunderstood reasons)

[antifa]

It's already extremely difficult to filter out unwanted content with easy to spot identifiers. Almost all social media websites have this built into their designs.