salient_one @ salient_one @lemmy.villa-straylight.social

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Yeah, but if Chrome is only used for a couple of utility websites, it won't be a win for Google.

There's a webcomic about a world where almost no one sleeps anymore thanks to a new drug. And they work 16 hours a day.

I guess that’s also what you’re saying.

Yep. And it's gonna get so much worse once LLMs are mainstream. Perhaps they have been for some time. After all, the Dead Internet theory precedes the onslaught of ChatGPT.

I’ve been passively wondering how long it will be until I have to start adding before:2023 to get remotely useful web search results on any topic. Don’t know what to try yet if I need to look up something from after that.

Yes, that's very sad. And what would we get in return for losing the Web to the bots? Nothing but automatic expensive BS at scale.

Oh yeah, definitely. I just meant that as an ironic silver lining, the damage would probably be worse if there wasn’t already some level of dishonesty and deception in society, because then we’d be too pure to have any defences against LLMs.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. You're right. Distrust is essential to critical thinking also. Maybe once everyone learns to assume that you absolutely shouldn't trust anything on the internet (and especially not anything produced by ChatGPT), it will be easier to combat the spread of fake news and nefarious propaganda. But I doubt it. Even smart people seem to fall into this trap, lured by the plausibility of the output, as was shown by Mozilla recently.

Oh, I didn't notice any with an adblock. Sorry about that!

Ironically I haven't yet read any of the books in the trilogy, but I plan to do it soonish.

Clickbait headline for a boring article 😪

I wonder what is the motive here.

You can sort of appreciate his showing his true self so unabashedly. It sheds light upon the ultra-rich mind. Still, he's a dumbo, IMHO.

They totally selected the most punchable face photo of his.

At least they don't use this crap in the medical field. Oh wait...

The coolest name.

Is this the one? Thank you for the recommendation!

One might ponder: is it better to be forgotten or be forever remembered for attempting something silly?

Hm. It’s also exactly the kind of disingenuousness that that humans have spent a couple million years evolving to try to detect, though.

I agree, but by now there's probably no reason to make people write those kind of things. It's likely that no human oversight is needed at all. Astroturfing can now be nearly completely automated.

I wonder if the LLMs are going to win this. Maybe more likely: When everyone realizes that the entire Internet is being flooded with even more bullshit, we’ll just stop trusting it, and the LLMs will more or less have put themselves out of a job.

One good thing about perfect bullshit generators is that they might help us abolish bullshit things like cover letters and marketing copy. But that's a very small gain considering the massive loss of trust in the web and making it a glitchy, spammy, scammy experience.

It would be funny if the propensity for humans to lie to each other meant that we were basically already inoculated from this terrifying new category of machines that we’ve designed to lie to us too.

On the contrary, I believe our inherent ability to trust each other is one of the main pillars of civilization, and undisclosed use of LLMs heavily undermines it.

Here's a good article about him.

Mr. Beast's videos are pure brain rot.

That is exactly the type of content LLMs were designed to excel at generating.

It represents fury. Also it's scary!

One of the worst earworms ever, but a classic nonetheless.

small player

Tee hee!