if you don’t stop upvoting memes and stupid subs
Who says “we’re” up voting it? Nobody questions where the upvotes for “PuppyOfTheDay” come from? Once you concede the algorithm is rigged, it’s silly to blame the humans for what’s on your feed.
The wholesale takeover of the site by /r/The_Donald posters gaming the algorithm back in 2016 is entirely down the memory hole.
Nobody who still uses the site wants to believe they’re being hoodwinked again.
Human posting of AI-generated content is definitely a problem
It isn’t clear whether this content is posted by humans or by AI fueled bot accounts. All they’re sifting for is text with patterns common to AI text generation tools.
There wasn’t necessarily anything stopping people from doing the same thing pre-GPT
The big inhibiting factor was effort. ChatGPT produces long form text far faster than humans and in a form less easy to identify than prior Markov Chains.
The fear is that Wikipedia will be swamped with slop content. Humans won’t be able to keep up with the work of cleaning it out.
Too late.
With thresholds calibrated to achieve a 1% false positive rate on pre-GPT-3.5 articles, detectors flag over 5% of newly created English Wikipedia articles as AI-generated, with lower percentages for German, French, and Italian articles. Flagged Wikipedia articles are typically of lower quality and are often self-promotional or partial towards a specific viewpoint on controversial topics.
One of the biggest changes for a nonprofit like Wikipedia is to find cheap/free labor that administration trusts.
AI “solves” this problem by lowering your standard of quality and dramatically increasing your capacity for throughput.
It is a seductive trade. Especially for a techno-libertarian like Jimmy Wales.
Don’t lose too much sleep over it.
This is likely going to be “Oops, all placebos!” in our future.
Move Fast And Break People
Leave it to the Macron government to do the right thing in the wrongest way possible.
We delivered the car to spec. We have a hamster on a spinning wheel in the engine block now. You can upgrade the engine as part of our enhancement package, which costs an order of magnitude more money for a linear scale in performance.
Shouting from a helicopter “Please disperse because we’ll come to your house and murder your families if you don’t” sounds like an actionable threat. And helicopters are difficult to fly on a good day. Would be a shame if someone up there had an accident.
You can do that with this novel technology called “a second pair of glasses for reading”.
Alternatively, if you don’t want to constantly adjust because you only need to read something quick, try taking off your glasses and squinting.
Could save you thousands of dollars and hours on the line with technical support.
It’s called “Blogging” and it is taking the nation by storm.
Problem: Most people only process text at the 6th grade level
Proposal: Require mainstream periodicals to only generate articles accessible to people at the 6th grade reading level
Consequence: Everyone accepts the 6th grade reading level as normal
But… New Problem: We’re injecting so many pop-ups and ad-inserts into the body of text that nobody ever bothers to read the whole thing.
Proposal: Insert summaries of 6th grade material, which we will necessarily have to reduce and simplify.
Consequence: Everyone accepts the 3rd grade reading level as normal.
But… New Problem: This isn’t good for generating revenue. Time to start filling those summaries with ad-injects and occluding them with pop ups.
Given the degree to which the modern day Wiki mods jump on to every edit and submission like a pack of starved lions, unleashing a computer to just pump out vaguely human-sounding word salad sounds like a bad enough idea on its face.
If the AI is being given priority over the editors and mods, it sounds even worse. All of that human labor, the endless back-and-forth in the Talk sections, arguing over the precise phrasing or the exact validity of sources or the relevancy of newly released information… and we’re going to occlude it with the half-wit remarks of a glorified chatbot?
Woof. Enshittification really coming for us all.
The business cycle dictates that companies try to re-implement bad ideas every six months to two years.
If the idea was good, they’d have implemented it and made their money. Only bad ideas are still ripe for exploitation and new economic growth, because you haven’t had someone as smart as me to make them work right.
It’s a secret smart phone that was smuggled out of the country by the Top Spies in the “Going to N. Korea to ride the subway” YouTube gang. We sent in some of our stealthiest and most clandestined professional infiltrators. Real Navy Seals meets Mission Impossible type guys. And they came out of N. Korea with this cutting edge “phone that randomly takes pictures while its in your pocket” technology.
Using the country’s state of the art telecommunications system and their cutting edge image processing technology, the Glorious Leader analyzes over 40 Zetabytes of information daily. This dragnet of highly accurate, insanely rigorous, and insidiously nefarious ultra-spyware is then handed over to a crack team of North Korean special agents who utilize their pre-crime tracing technology to break up hundreds of resistance cells every year, long before they can become a threat to the iron fisted communist regime.
It’s the only explanation for why North Koreans haven’t fully revolted and overthrown their despotic leadership. Juche Super-science keeps the rabble in line.
the USA has been overtaken by a fascist christian white supremacist party
For the third time (assuming you don’t count Congressional cycles) in twenty years. I’ve spent a solid 13 of the last 25 years living under a Christian Fascist presidency. Why am I supposed to assume that will devalue the dollar this time around?
Is it?
Seems like petrodollars have been riding high for decades.
I think the latter has a better future at the moment.
Crypto ‘godfather’ of Bel-Air: Probe widens into L.A. deputies’ alleged links to mogul
If you want a deeper dive, check out the TrueAnon episode series Zort a three-parts-and-counting plunge into the seedy underbelly of Cryptocoin scams, extortion, leg-lengthening surgery, LASD rampant corruption, and age-gap discourse.
I guess I’m a highly sophosticated Palantir bot account trying to trick you into interacting with me.