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The machine is holding up a mirror to our vacant attention-addled faces and showing us what we want. And what we want is slop.
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Will A.I. Slop Kill the Internet? | SlopWorld
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Lorraine Lee
in reply to Jack of all trades • •Yet another reason #Friendica is the best way to consume the #Fediverse. You get the first few words of the text on the other side of links, and for links to #YouTube, more often than not, that includes a sponsor plug. Perfect #clickbait antidote...
As for the question of whether "A" "I" slop will kill the Internet, in my humble opinion, it's already been ruined by "I" "P", but that's just my opinion.
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Jigme Datse
in reply to Jack of all trades • • •I feel that suggesting that what corporate culture is producing (in this case LLMs) is what we want, is a popular mythology, but recall that Ford said, "you can have it in any colour you like, as long as it's black."
The possibility of going to a corporation and saying, "Hey this is what I want..." isn't really something that is an option.
Also, while we can "say no" to stuff, only to the degree that there are options.
Lorraine Lee
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@lori Well, I was speaking of the person not the company. Which I guess still has a Ford at the head of it (this surprised me).
There are 6 colours available (that's not a huge amount of choice to begin with) 4 are grey, 2 are blue. So, basically it's not much different than "as long as it's black".
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Jigme Datse
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@lori The drive for bigger vehicles drives me bonkers (and that wasn't exactly the point I was trying to make, but hey let's go with it, it's a valid point too).
Regulations are a big part of *why* larger vehicles are such a common thing. I *rarely* see what are called kei cars/trucks where I live in Canada (like as in see them about once every 6 months if I'm lucky).
I do see huge trucks (you know current models) and things like Lamborghini.
Jigme Datse
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@lori It's really a huge mess. This started as a comment on something about "AI" or specifically "Large Language Models" (LLMs). It very much is related. The original post stated, "This is what we want..." Which was what my original comment was meant to be.
I should @JigmeDatse@social.openpsychology.net if I want to say more about it.
Jack of all trades
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It may not be what you or I want, but enough people do watch this stuff. With these slop videos amassing millions of views it becomes a viable business. Whether that's "taking advantage of human psychology" or "giving people what they want" is a matter of semantics in my eyes. The end result is the same.
Jigme Datse
in reply to Jack of all trades • • •Jack of all trades
in reply to Jigme Datse • • •@jigmedatse Of course they have a choice, at multiple stages of the whole process. They have a choice to not click on a ragebait video. They have a choice to stop watching once they recognize the AI slop. They have a choice to not like and comment under the video. They have a choice to not subscribe to the channel that published the slop.
But guess what. Enough people do all of these things. By their actions they're affirming that they want slop, and more slop they'll get.
Jigme Datse
in reply to Jack of all trades • • •I think that your concept of "choice" is very different than what I'm talking about. That's fine. Yeah *you* can do that. But have you worked with their mind, and their feed? Even just their feed? Nope. Most likely not even *that*. You're refusing to believe that anyone could see it differently than you. You see that it's a conscious choice. I see that they don't even *see* a possibility of choosing.
I don't really think you have spent the time trying to understand.
Jack of all trades
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If it's not a conscious choice then how does that treat people? It paints them as gullible and easily manipulated, mindlessly taking in anything that corporations put in front of them, doesn't it? Is that the perspective I'm refusing to see?
Jigme Datse
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