[rapind]

> Why can’t anyone be bothered anymore to write actual content

The way I see it is that the majority of people never bothered to write actual content. Now there’s a tool the non-writers can use to write dubious content.

I would wager this tool is being used much differently by actual writers focused on producing quality. There’s just way less of them, same way there is less of any specialization.

The real question with AI to me is whether it will remain consistently better when wielded by a specialist who has invested their time into whatever the thing is they are producing. If that ever changes then we are doomed. When it’s no longer slop…

[stingraycharles]

That’s a good insight. So basically we have a whole new generation of authors out there, in the same way we have a whole new generation of coders out there.

Perhaps they can be called vibe bloggers?

What bothers me compared to code is that for software, the code is just a means to and end. But for articles, it’s much more than that.

I wonder how this will end up affecting our lives. Last week I saw a video that highlighted how AI is already affecting our vocabulary. It introduces words not typically used in American English (but more commonly used in Nigeria, where a lot of content writing is outsourced to) into mainstream media.

I can totally see how this will slowly start affecting language itself.

[retSava]

You're absolutely right! (/s)

The tone of AI-written stuff sounds to me just like the soul-less SEO-optimized content marketing blog crap we saw the years before AI became a thing. Very prevalent on Linkedin too. It just sounds/reads so hopelessly artificial.

If I were to begin using AI to write stuff for me (comments or articles or whatever), I'd at least begin with having it train on the collection of everything I've written so far.

[collingreen]

This makes sense and is extremely possible and how I thought these things would be positioned in the first place. In surprised we don't see this more - would be better results, less shame thrown at users, and make the product stickier.

[pickledoyster]

SEO slop is what the LLMs were trained on. GIGO