AI-generated images now appearing in Google image search results

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Not as bad as the AI-generated articles showing up in search results. Some websites I get driven to make absolutely no sense, despite a lot of words being written about all kinds of topics.

I'm looking forward to the day when "certified human content" is a thing, and that's all search engines allow you to see.

I'm looking forward to the day when "certified human content" is a thing, and that's all search engines allow you to see.

I can't wait for that. I get the feeling it's gonna get real messy before we figure out solutions to all the problems caused by AI-generated content.

I mean yeah, there's already plenty of human-generated misinformation and shit, but it seems to me (not an expert) like ai is capable of fucking with society on a whole new scale.

The big difference is that high quality human generated content is often based on reputation, a history of quality content, and frequently reviewed by experts in the field (very common for medical articles).

But AI has none of that. It's 100% quantity over quality, and that's just internet pollution as far as I'm concerned.

We really do have to figure something out, though.

China is already using it to generate shorts on YouTube. I hope Google has the balls to invest in fighting it, but that company has been downhill lately.

China?

The whole of Pinterest, tiktok and Instagram are using it to make shorts.

  1. TikTok is China. Literally owned and operated by the state.

  2. Don't compare for profit corporations to a hostile militaristic dictatorship.

if you look up anything rooting or custom related, those sites seem to be half of what comes up

Yeah, a lot of repair sites come up with pages that have just hundreds of Q&A's, but often times they don't make sense or aren't even related to the topic! Once you realize how much time was wasted on these garbage sites, you don't even feel motivated to keep looking for answers.

It's still pretty easy to tell the difference. You have to have a pretty low level of media literacy to not be able to easily spot it. Unfortunately we already know that most people don't have a clue when it comes to mass media, and even if they did, we also know that people tend to believe whatever reinforces their priors.

They'll just make certification so expensive only the wealthy will qualify.

You'll never hear another perspective again.

Or, you know, we go back to the time when the news media had real gatekeepers and not just any random jackass could churn out some bullshit copy and broadcast it to the world, let alone have it get published by their local paper.

It's nice that the Internet has democratized access to a national or even global audience, but let's not pretend for a moment that it hasn't caused a ton of problems in the process such that now many people have no idea of what to believe while others believe whatever they want.