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by CJefferson 565 days ago
This type of thing is my biggest AI fear. It’s just too easy to produce bug reports, twitter posts, academic papers, entire books and audiobooks, using AI. While the results are almost entirely trash, we can’t force humans to take the time to categorize and reject them, as there isn’t enough time.

The only fix I can think of is going to be to introduce trust models, where you can vouch for people and their outputs, and people can trust their friends, or particular lists. PGP keys aren’t the technical answer (because it’s a mess), but I think something more modern in that area might be needed.

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With twitter posts, you have it easy because it was 95% trash before AI. You'll definitely have a lot of problem with other content though.
There should be consumer protection laws in place that require AI companies to record every result their tools produce. Then when some trash human submits the AI output to a bug tracker, forum, etc. with a negative impact on the victim website, they can submit a claim to the AI company for a $100 million payment due to the inability to prevent the tool from being used improperly.