"now you only posted 4 times today Jenny, do you just want to do the minimum?"

This is already happening.

They are paying people bottom market rates to generate unique written content and people are just having AI write it for them.

Some kind of AI ouroboros situation.

Already happening for years.

Amazon mechanical turk, Outlier.ai, scale ai, are all gig platforms that pay people to produce real human content for LLM training.

At first they were paying people to actually produce content, like worked solutions to maths problems or translations, then they pivoted more to rating LLM output.

And as with every enshittification cycle, wages and work rapidly dried up, so people responded by asking LLMs for the answer just to meet deadlines and get by.

I envision the opposite:

In the future, I imagine authors will go to great lengths to prove their works to be authentically human. It may become standard practice for authors to live-stream their writing. Literally a years-long stream of them sitting at their desk. Comments turned off.

Perhaps libraries could even offer this as a service. Offer a space where authors can come write in public and have it simultaneously live-streamed. Maybe it becomes the norm for authors to mostly write publicly on a platform like Twitch, but to occasionally write in public spaces where they can be physically observed.

This will not be a legal requirement to publish a book. But no respectable author would do otherwise.

Supposedly the people paid to rate responses are already using AI

more than likely they are scraping other AI bot posts, there isnt that many users on most of the social media sites. its 50/50 AI/BOTS for most of them.

Big AI mostly switched to synthetic training data anyway. The books they're digitizing are being used to gather knowledge, not writing styles or logic (mostly).

As in, when you ask ChatGPT how long some book is, it can just go check (if it's in the database). It's also useful if you ask about that book or about knowledge contained in that book. It'll even reference books now (if you demand that in your prompt).

It's not the same as earlier LLM tech which relied on scanned text to figure out how to respond to any given prompt (from a language standpoint). The "language" part of LLMs is a solved problem now (thanks to the synthetic training). At least for English 🤷