How will the Fediverse navigate the dead internet?
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (4 children)

We need new solutions to adapt to this reality.

Problem should solve itself once investor capital is no longer flooding into these AI companies and subsidizing the cost of generating that text.

Once these spammers have to pay the full cost to generate their LLM-generated spam, it will no longer be financially viable for them to do so for so little return. They're only doing it now because it's free or next to free. Having to pay what it actually costs will slow the pervasive AI slop to nearly nothing.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    Not entirely, no. But after investor capital dries up, it will become more expensive. So it will only be economically viable if your AI slop spam gains you significant money. And you're not going to get significant money by posting slop spam to Lemmy.

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  • [+] [S] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)
  • I'm less worried about LLMs pushing products (although finding honest reviews of products has become more difficult with AI and astroturfing), it's their use as propaganda tools for state actors and oligarchs pushing agendas that I'm most worried about. And that's not going away when the bubble pops.

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