Generative AI will eventually poison itself

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I am quite pleased the AI decided to take it to heart when I told it to kill itself

Well, it’s also killing the internet in the process. It’s like a tumor on the internet.

Nah. It's degrading the internet, for sure; but not killing it. We got a similar event in September 1993 and the internet survived fine.

At least this time around there is intelligence involved, even if it is artificial.

A lot of the newbies were simply clueless, not necessarily lacking intelligence. Still, they were generating a sudden and huge influx of low quality "content" aka noise, lowering the ability of the [previous] userbase to find what it wanted, and that userbase got understandably pissed.

And eventually this was solved - some platforms died, some got moribund, but the ones that were able to ride on the new times thrived. And more importantly, the internet as a whole found ways to contain and sort that noise.

That's a lot like what's happening now, except that the agents are not a huge crowd of noobs - they're a handful of shitty people using LLMs and Stable Diffusion to do so.

“similar”

lol. a massive growth in real, human, users is not “similar” to a massive growth in fake undependable data with zero to negative value.

It won't die, it will just plateau. At least for now.