My server at Red Robin told me he’s quitting his job next week to make AI videos for social media. He showed me one of the videos he made and claims the AI tools “have feelings.”
As I sit here there’s a Microsoft Copilot ad playing. I know of several Democratic firms that are producing a dozen+ AI videos daily.
The internet is going to just be AI chatbots talking to other AI chatbots in a few months…
It’s like Kessler syndrome, but for the Internet!
Can’t remember if it was here or somewhere else, but it was a Substack article (I think) that phrased it something like this: even if we stopped all machine-generated junk production on the internet right now, it’s basically like a layer of sediment covering the internet that we’d have to fucking dig and sift through when looking for whatever real stuff we’re looking for. Allowing it to continue is worse.
Good thing the Western economy isn’t a giant pile of perverse incentives masquerading as a functional system otherwise we might have a problem with this
Grey goop but for intellectual works