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> It makes research harder too, since more and more public information is infected by AI content.

God, how I hate the billions and billions (sorry Carl Sagan) of pages that look like they're going to have information, but just repeat your question and expand it to 20 or more paragraphs.

"You want to know about how much torque to tighten wheel nuts for a Ford Focus. Torque to tighten wheel nuts is an important aspect in securing the wheels after replacing them...". God damn, it's Eliza being abused to serve the attention economy, and you notice this and wonder if the page would have the correct information or it would just be another bucket of shit pretending to be information... So you think "Let's skip all of that and ask AI...".

[nicbou]

Someone, somewhere has to put some information online for the first time. I am one of those people.

This sort of thing was a problem before too. I had a few copycats myself. The difference is that those copycats competed on the same level, and this sort of shallow copying was still too expensive. Google can automate plagiarism at a scale and just shut the competition down.

They are the modern Terminal Railroad Association.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Terminal_Rail...