[grey-area]

The problem is not about money it is that we are made massively culturally poorer by the flood of ahistorical, amoral, incoherent, rococco, contradictory yet plausible shit produced by LLMs.

Both the internet and books have been flooded with ‘content’ which appears like human content but has no coherence or intention to it and tends to fall apart completely the longer form the story.

Even our autocomplete is being infected with LLM suggestions, distorting and guiding how people write.

This is a VERY significant problem for our culture long term.

[Gigachad]

There was a case a while back now of an AI generated mushroom identification book filled with inaccuracies.

Problem is short of filtering out anything published after 2023 it’s almost impossible to find something that isn’t slop now.

[FartyMcFarter]

> Problem is short of filtering out anything published after 2023

Is it even feasible to filter this? Such metadata can be easily faked too in a lot of contexts.

[bluecheese452]

We can basically only read well known books from the past.

[Gigachad]

You don’t use metadata. You use old book reviews and historical top charts.

[encrux]

I don’t see any other way past this other than regulation:

We need authenticated online spaces where your account is linked to a real, government issued ID. This way, moderating content becomes feasible again. Bans will hold value, since you can’t just create new accounts all the time. I predict people will gravitate towards authenticated markets (and social media).

I for one am sick and tired of second guessing every text I‘m reading, at least give me someone to hold accountable.

[inigyou]

Well that doesn't require a regulation. You can just create this space.

[Invictus0]

A space "regulated" by id. its obvious and its going to happen

[inigyou]

When people talk about regulation it's usually government regulation.

[grey-area]

Or maybe we just collectively impose severe social sanction on people trying to pass off low effort slop as their own work and stop calling it ‘artificial intelligence’?

[paganel]

> Bans will hold value, since you can’t just create new accounts all the time.

People will just flood to places that are not official and where they'll be able to express their views freely. That's how these things have always turned out to be.

In other words, let's say that I'll get banned from the likes of FB or IG as a result of me trespassing my government's ideological wishes, well, tough luck for FB and IG (and fuck them while I'm at it), I'll just make an account on a platform that won't abide by EU/Romanian (I'm Romanian myself) propaganda, where I'll still be able to share views with people thinking similar thoughts to what I think.

[bakugo]

Sounds like everything is proceeding according to plan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gGLvg0n-uY