[jamesrcole]

I think this is a glimpse of the future. I can imagine ever-greater amounts of information overload, and AI used everywhere to filter it to manageable levels.

[freehorse]

This sounds like an extreme waste of resources in all sides.

[input_sh]

LLMs in a nutshell.

Also see: people using them to write artificial garbage and then readers using them to summarise the said garbage.

[bryant]

Extreme is right; I can only imagine the waste of power. It's probably exponentially worse than the waste of gas by postal services for delivering junk mail.

Except I'm not sure there's anything that can be done about it in the US because of first amendment rights.

[freehorse]

People (or "people" aka bots) do not write bs because they can. They write because they are incetivised to do so.

[wkat4242]

And on the other side AI being used to create more of it and to find ways to bypass the filters.