AI is flooding the web -- one of the ways Big Tech is wiping out the open Internet as fast as it can. How can we collectively stop them?
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Elect people, pass laws, and don't allow anyone to stop us.
@dangillmor I'm a bit skeptical about the step between 'more sites are (co)-generated my AI' and that being a sign of the 'open internet' being wiped out.
Having an internet presence out of social networks has been limited to the folx with technical knowledge or the financial background to pay techies for it. AI seems to allow the crowd of non tech inclined folx to also be present in the internet. Imho, that facet is not bad at all, quite the contrary.
@dangillmor Interesting research, thank you for sharing. Unexpected result that the AI pages are not less truthful than non-AI pages.
Not sure what to think of including „AI assisted“ pages. My home page and blog are, of course, AI assisted. I‘m not doing them with the SEO mess that Wordpress etc bring, nor with the ugly HTML that normal generators provide. I let AI generate handcrafted-level HTML from markdown, and my DE translated to EN, enriched with hyperlinks by AIs; an improvement IMHO.
@dangillmor I'm surprised it's that lie. Though one thing is that they tend to get higher search engine placement too.
It feels weirdly un-hyperbolic to say that this is the end of the web and search engines. Communities of human interests need to get back to curated web rings. Search is going to die, and more or less already has.
@dangillmor
We can't. This cannot be stopped. Because most of humanity is (a) greedy and (b) stupid.
@dangillmor I don't really like the solution given in the article, which is basically: making AI sound more human and diverse. When that will be the case, AI-generated content will be indistinguishable from human-generated content, and that will be really sad in my opinion.
@dangillmor among other things, maybe pass laws requiring products of generative "AI" to include a piece of metadata that marks them as such, and can be used to filter it all out? Otherwise, it's just more tech that enables lying and disinformation.
We should *not* be striving to make machines that can pass the Turing Test.
