[devmor]

I would say that this take was correct, just not in the way the detractors at the time intended. The danger was to the usefulness of the internet.

I have yet to see any benefit to society from GPT's improvements, but I do see the internet quickly becoming more and more unusable due to the inundation of machine-generated spam on nearly every communications platform.

[goatlover]

By more unusable, do you mean more dead? As in LLMs are helping make the Dead Internet Theory real?

[devmor]

In the most "doomer" possible view of my beliefs, yes, that'd be an accurate description.

I don't know if that will actually come true, of course - human society is pretty resilient in the face of its own self-caused adversity, but currently it does already extract a significant mental and emotional cost dealing with filtering out the "human mimics" on many platforms - especially search engines.