We're starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

AI spam is already starting to ruin the internet::We’re starting to see one prediction come true of how artificial intelligence will affect the internet: AI-generated spam is flooding the web.

  • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
    32·
    10 months ago

    Lately I’ve been seeing more ai articles and videos on youtube. Sometimes, I look up tech issues and there’s a video, I check it out and some of these videos are just forum posts uploaded text on the screen. There are whole channels taking popular online forum posts and gathering views that way.

    • RubberDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      10 months ago

      Yes, so annoying. You read an article and later find the (steam) forum, reddit post or tweet that was turned into a whole article, just with more words.

      Don’t even get me started on having to watch a 10 minute video on YouTube that could have been a 3 sentence forum post.

      • GreatAlbatross@feddit.ukEnglish
        10·
        10 months ago

        Or something that could have been explained in 3 paragraphs becoming a 20 minute, overproduced video complete with someone making a stupid face in the thumbnail, and SOMETHING ALLCAPS in the title.

    • Nommer@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7·
      10 months ago

      What’s really annoying is I’ll search for something in DDG, Google, bing, etc, like palworld for example, and I’ll see the top 10 results be different web pages with almost identical wording that don’t even answer my questions. I hate the Internet these days. SEO and advertising is cancer that kills off anything good.