How does this square with the increasing slop-ification of the internet, where 99% percent of what everyone sees is low-quality AI-generated content and anything worthwhile will just be drowned in the sea of noise and never have a chance to be read by anyone, much less become influential?
I do think this is a big problem on twitter, where I used to get valuable signal and now half of even my following feed is Long Tweets.
Not just long, but formatted in punchy paragraphs like this.
And clearly written by AI.
This is a shame, because twitter used to be one of the best places on the internet. Other places, e.g. LessWrong, Substack, seem a lot better though, through some combination of: human review, known writers with reputations to maintain, algorithms that are less virality-happy, good taste and dogfooding by admins. I don’t see why this couldn’t continue for some time.
How does this square with the increasing slop-ification of the internet, where 99% percent of what everyone sees is low-quality AI-generated content and anything worthwhile will just be drowned in the sea of noise and never have a chance to be read by anyone, much less become influential?
In theory, everyone can read blogs… but in practice, the intellectual elites read blogs and everyone else reads bot spam on social networks.
I do think this is a big problem on twitter, where I used to get valuable signal and now half of even my following feed is Long Tweets.
Not just long, but formatted in punchy paragraphs like this.
And clearly written by AI.
This is a shame, because twitter used to be one of the best places on the internet. Other places, e.g. LessWrong, Substack, seem a lot better though, through some combination of: human review, known writers with reputations to maintain, algorithms that are less virality-happy, good taste and dogfooding by admins. I don’t see why this couldn’t continue for some time.